The United States signaled on Tuesday it was ready to back a French-drafted UN resolution that would bolster the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic with 900 extra troops. The Security Council is considering the measure following a request from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterr...

The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw announced yesterday that group meetings for the nominations of three vice presidents will take place on March 17 in order to elect Myanmar’s next president and two vice presidents. The three candidates are to be respectively nominated by the Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House), t...

Negotiations over the final draft of the ceasefire agreement between the National Ceasefire Co-ordination Team and the Union Peace-Making Working Committee will be held in about two weeks’ time, said U Hla Maung Shwe of the Myanmar Peace Center on August 3. U Hla Maung Shwe spoke to Mizzima after...

Income generating activities for youth are contributing to creating conditions for return. In this direction ACTED has employed up to 200 youths to assist in the construction of the first pilot “safe haven”. This haven will have the capacity to host around 3,000 persons at night in case of incidents...

Myanmar President U Win Myint has called for raising momentum of reform in line with the global trend, stressing that the reform needs to be conducted in a timely manner toward building a democratic and federal union, Xinhua reported quoting state media. He urged the administrative, legislative a...

September 25, 2015 (LASU) – The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said it started relocating 2,143 vulnerable Sudanese refugees from South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state town of Yei River county to the nearby Lasu settlement site. Among those being relocated, UNHCR said, were many single mot...

Vice President Henry Van Thio underscored the need for Myanmar farmers to improve the quality and price of rice to make it more globally competitive. The vice president, who is also head of the Protection of Farmer Rights and Enhancement of their Benefits Group, said at the annual meeting of the ...

Hargeisa, Somaliland - Outside his two bedroom house made of tin in the heart of Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway Somaliland region, Kosar Dhool cuts an exhausted figure burdened with events far heavier than his slim frame can bear. The father of five has been receiving phone calls from his son...

Primary school students from Htee Klo Thaw village in Hlaingbwe Township will be starting the 2015 academic year in a new school. The Karen Community Based Network Group is finalizing the school construction project to have it ready for the students. The KCBNG, are based in the East Dawna Ranges,...