YANGON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Union Election Commission has set 60 days as the by-election campaign period starting from Jan. 30, an announcement from the election body said Thursday. The country's by-election, the first in the new government tenure, is set for April 1. All 95 candidat...

Approximately 200 teachers will be added to work as daily wage teachers in Mon State’s primary schools during the 2016-2017 academic years, according to Mon State’s Education Department. “In Mon State, we have many educated people. Compared to other states, we do not need to increase the number o...

Education Minister U Myo Thein Gyi told lawmakers in the Amyotha Hluttaw yesterday that educational development in ethnic minority areas is directly linked to the success or failure of Myanmar’s peace process. Efforts to expand ethnic language instruction, boost literacy rates and improve hig...

President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the people and government of Republic of Cameroon for hosting over 56,000 Internally Displaced Persons from Nigeria since July 2014. The president made the commendation at dinner and cultural night organised in honour of the visiting President of Cameroon, Mr Pa...

Four political parties are preparing to contest an up-coming by-election in Karen State at the end of the year. The parties contesting the election are the Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party (PSDP), Karen Democratic Party (KDP), National League for Democratic Party (NLD) and The Union Solidarity and Deve...

The Seeds for Solutions project, sponsored by the IKEA foundation, will help families and their children rebuild their lives after more than three years of exile The Sahel region of Burkina Faso currently hosts most of the 33,692 Malian refugees who have fled a violent conflict in the northern pa...

With COVID-19 raging in many parts of the world, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning about shortages of vaccines in the Asia-Pacific region, including for refugees and asylum-seekers. We urge immediate and stronger support for the COVAX initiative, a worldwide effort aimed at achieving equit...

Saudi-led warplanes have launched deadly air strikes in Yemen despite a call by Houthi fighters for a halt to the raids as a condition for UN-sponsored peace talks. Defence Ministry officials told Al Jazeera on Thursday that 11 air strikes struck Houthi targets in Ibb province, while four hit Lah...

The Yangon Region government will spend Ks8 billion for prevention of floods in the Hlaing and Ayeyawady rivers, according to an official from the Yangon Region Government. The government will conduct annual flood prevention in those rivers. Prevention has reduced the impact of floods in Hlegue t...