Two women in fluorescent-coloured anoraks stand out in the crowd of refugees crossing the border from Ukraine to Slovakia. Antonina Kunchenko, 62, and Natasha Titova, 59, are sisters who have fled fighting in eastern Ukraine. They arrive on a spring morning in Slovakia without a clue what to do next...

PATHEIN—a coastal road stretching 274 kilometers (170 miles) from Rakhine State’s Thandwe to Gaw Yin Gyi Island in Irrawaddy Region’s Ngapudaw Township will be built at a cost of around 300 billion kyats ($187million), according to Irrawaddy Region Minister for Finance and Planning U Htay Win. At...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appealing for intensified support for displaced Afghans and their hosting communities, ahead of the first-ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, next week. As we enter the fifth decade of Afghan displacement, some 4.6 million Afghans remain uprooted globally – incl...

GENEVA, Sept 4, (UNHCR) – The head of the UN refugee agency António Guterres, emphasizing the European Union faced a "defining moment", has laid out a set of key guidelines which he says should underpin all efforts to resolve the current refugee and migration crisis facing Europe. Guterres said t...

The national committee on minimum wage decided yesterday to set the average daily wage at Ks4, 800, offering Ks600 per hour. This decision was made after the fifth meeting for setting the minimum wage, which was held yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw, with attendees such as Union Minister for Labour, Immi...

For sending Myanmar workers to work at the fishery industry of Thailand, two One Stop Centers will be opened in Kawthaung and Ranaung according to Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population on September 5. Thailand Minister for Labour visited Myanmar during August and invited more than 60,000...