As part of the partnership with the LEGO Foundation, UNHCR supported the Lebanese Ministry of Education (MEHE) to introduce playful learning activities for children in public kindergartens through the training of counsellors from the Department of Orientation and Counselling.

The Mon State government will provide 50 million kyats (US$31,300) for the upcoming 72nd Mon National Day commemoration in early 2019, officials said. Mon National Day is scheduled to be observed on February 20, 2019. Mon State National Resources and Environment Minister Dr. Min Kyi Win said that...

A ceasefire agreement between eight of Myanmar's armed ethnic groups and the government is set to be signed on Thursday, the culmination of over two years of negotiations aimed at bringing an end to the majority of the country's long-running conflicts. But the deal will fall short of its nationwi...

The Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing Yemen for almost a month says its military operation "Decisive Storm" has ended and a new campaign aimed at protecting civilians and preventing Houthi fighters from operating has begun. Brigadier-General Ahmed al-Asiri, the coalition's spokesperson, s...

Mon political parties are planning to cooperate in order to hold ethnic-based political talks, according to Dr. Min Nwe Soe, member of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) and general secretary of the All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP). The UPDJC meeting was held on October 28-29....

Political change is gathering pace in Central African Republic, where two ex-prime ministers will be vying for the presidency in a run-off poll. Opponents' charges of first round 'irregularities' are subsiding. Former premiers of the Central African Republic (CAR), Anicet Georges Dologuele (pi...