CHIANG MAI, Thailand — For the past two months, Burmese migrants in Thailand have been eligible to exchange their temporary passports for regular passports, allowing them to travel outside of Thailand, but few people have applied for the upgrade, embassy officials say. In the past, Burmese migran...

Myanmar allows using state radio TV for election campaigning YANGON, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar Union Election Commission announced Thursday allowing political parties to use the state-operated Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) for campaigning purpose. The campaigning by political parties ...

The ministry plans to set up a central providence fund for pensioners instead of contribution by the government, said Union Minister for Planning and Finance Soe Win. The number of pensioners in the country is at almost one million. Pension fund accounts for one-sixths of revenue incomes. The min...

In Kenya, this coming Monday marks the start of the new school term and at Dadaab, the largest refugee complex in the world, some 40,000 refugee children are preparing to go to school - many for the first time. The influx of 154,000 new refugees from Somalia this year, more than half of whom are chi...