UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is launching today an innovative action plan to expand employment opportunities for refugees. The document not only identifies the challenges, opportunities and best practices in the integratio...

France's foreign minister said an African Union-led plan was the only viable way to end fighting among rival factions in the Central African Republic, pushing back Monday against an alternative peace process steered by Russia. "There is no alternative that is either desirable or is likely to succeed...

A new bridge has been constructed in Mawlamyinegyun Township, labutta district, ayeyawady Region, under the government’s rural development plan. With the use of a Ks48 million budget, the Township Rural development department is organizing the construction of a new RC concrete bridge named Panmau...

More than 3000 acres of farmlands that were confiscated for the Mandalay international airport project at Tada-U Township were returned to their farmer-owners. Vice President U Henry Van Thio gave temporary land use certificate, commonly referred to as Form 3, to farmers who were original owners ...

The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement has set to finalize a strategic plan which is designed to implement the country’s National Youth Policy. “After strategic plan for Youth Policy is completed, the ministry will implement it in stages. We will start this year,” said union mini...

U Min Thu, deputy minister of the President’s Office, has been nominated as minister of the Office of the Union Government. A letter from the president nominating U Min Thu was read in the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (bicameral parliament) on November 19. The appointment would fill a vacancy left when ...

The government has approved the seizure of more than 950,000 acres of unused vacant, fallow and virgin land that had been leased to private entities for agriculture, breeding and mining, a senior agriculture official said on Wednesday. U Myo Tint Tun, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand – The six-month window for the registration of vacant, fallow and virgin land for the use of agribusiness in accordance with the newly amended Vacant, Fallow and Virgin (VFV) Land Management Law will come to a close on March 11. One month after the amended law was passed by t...

The Government of the Republic of Zambia, Embassy of Japan, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a landmark joint initiative to strengthen resilience and improve livelihoods for host communities and refugees in Zambia’s ...