The International Organization for Migration (IOM) will be opening Migrant Resource Centers in Yangon, Magway and Mawlamyaing in June to help educate workers and provide essential skills. The IOM is cooperating on this project with Western Union, according to IMO head Kieran Gorman Best. The cent...

Hundreds of civilians who were taken by opposition forces in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria region during an uptick in fighting are still missing, the UN’s top rights official said on Thursday, in a call for their immediate release.

Japan is preparing to offer more than US$885 million in loans and grants to Myanmar after a request from the incoming government, according to a report in the Japan Times. Monday’s report quoted a government source who said the Abe government hoped to compile a detailed plan by the middle of the...

Several days a week, Kelly, a shy 35-year-old Venezuelan musician from El Tigre Anzoátegui State, meets a band of 50 young kids and teenagers for their two-hour music lesson. As they quickly fill the air with the sounds of classical and other modern music, Kelly closes his eyes and listens carefully...

Pensions for people 90 years old and above will be transferred through local authorities starting Friday. All people at least 90 years old as well as monks and nuns will receive payments. To apply for the pension one needs to submit a national registration card and household member list. The pens...

UNHCR, the UN Agency for Refugees, and IOM, the United Nations Migration Organization, welcome the adoption, recognized by 8 Latin American countries, of a declaration and a work plan to coordinate the response to protection needs and assistance of Venezuelan refugees and migrants in their territori...

Three years ago, there were few authentic Syrian restaurants in Egypt. “Now they are countless,” said Mohamed Belal, who helped to found one of Cairo’s first Syrian restaurant chains in 2004. Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, more than 190,000 Syrians have taken refuge in Egypt, brin...

THE Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population is planning to turn out around 5,000 skilled workers through trainings that will enhance their technical capability required to work, according to the Myawady Daily. U Aung Htay, deputy director-general of the ministry, said that arrangements are...

No Nigerian leader, democratic or dictatorial, has ever succeeded in delivering socioeconomic prosperity to the masses. When Nigerians rouse from sleep on April 1, they will again head for filling stations to join the now de rigueur queues for Premium Motor Spirit. This is no big news; queuein...