South Korean president Moon Jae-in landed on North Korean soil on Sept. 18 for a historical meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Moon is the third president to visit North Korea following Kim Dae Jung in 2000 and Roh Moo Hyun in 2007. September’s Moon-Kim summit marked the third of its k...

In Nduta refugee camp, a shortage of funds sees some school classes held under trees.“When it rains everything gets wet,” says Irahoze, 14, who fled Burundi and now studies beneath the trees in Tanzania’s Nduta refugee camp. “When it’s windy, the branches fall and when the sun is strong it’s too hot...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has donated an ambulance to the Ministry of Health through the Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Nchelenge District in Luapula Province. Speaking when he handed over the ambulance, Head of UNHCR’s Kawambwa Field Office Hashim S...

Representatives of various ethnic armed groups arrived at the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) in Laiza on Monday for a conference on the nationwide ceasefire. Many observers expect the Laiza talks to have significant bearing upon the peace process in Burma. The Natio...

The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) will reserve two leading positions within the ethnic alliance for representatives of the Karen Nation Union (KNU) despite the Karen group walking out of the UNFC conference in Chiang Mai on Sunday. Speaking to DVB and other reporters at the end of t...

As preparing for 2015 election, Kayan New Generation Youth (KNGY) is leading the trainings of election knowledge in the Kayan area. The training will be organizing from August 22 to 25 said Ko Ko Gyi a member of politic and human right commission under the KNGY. “ Ko Ko Gyi said that this trainin...

More than a month has elapsed since the 6th Union Peacemaking Work Committee-Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team or UPWC-NCCT negotiations, yet no follow-up meeting has been called so far, reports the Shan Herald Agency for News. According to the Myanmar Peace Center or MPC that is currently v...

The Karen National Union (KNU) has announced that it is not yet ready to sign a nationwide ceasefire agreement on Union Day. Saw Mahn Mahn, joint-secretary of the KNU, one of the major rebel forces in Burma, told DVBthat in a four-day meeting from 3 to 7 February, the group’s central committee dr...

PlaNet Finance, the lead implementing agency for the EU-funded project 'Supporting Financial Access via Cooperative Upgrading and Enterprise and Farm Development in Kayin State', has officially turned over equipment and materials to its partner organizations as part of the implementation of the proj...

While Yangon has laid out ambitious plans to boost infrastructure and trade, members of parliament and urban planners say more needs to be done to address day-to-day problems faced by people in the city. Among areas that will be addressed in plans are rule of law, sufficient drinking water, tran...