Myanmar refugees in camps along the Thai-Myanmar border are to be given vocational training in an effort to increase the number of refugees willing to return to their home country. Office of the Vocational Education Commission (Ovec) head Chanvech Boonpraderm yesterday signed an agreement with ACT...

GENEVA – Driven by fresh fighting, horrendous acts of violence and facing drought and famine, thousands of people are fleeing South Sudan, making it the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Total displacement from South Sudan into the surrounding region has now reached 1.6 million people, an a...

The Chin National Front (CNF) agreed in a recent meeting of its leadership to keep moving forward in Burma’s current peace process, which centers on the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). The decision was made at the CNF’s 10th Central Executive Committee members meeting held at its Camp Victo...

Negotiators representing the Union government and armed ethnic groups will meet in Yangon on 22 July aiming to strike a deal on the official signing of the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) a senior adviser at the Myanmar Peace Centre said Thursday according to a report in the Global New Light of...