A training school for agricultural mechanisation (Yezin) on the University of Yezin campus in Zeyathiri Township, Nay Pyi Taw, was opened on March 31, according to a statement by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation. The school, which is a joint project between the ministry and K...

A development master plan for the Yangon-Hanthawaddy-Bago corridor and Yangon's southwest will be drawn up by the Department of Urban and Housing Development of the Construction Ministry and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the government announced. A project steering committ...

Myanmar’s international relations have improved since the National League for Democracy-led government took power in 2016, U Kyaw Zeya, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), said yesterday. “When we review our performance, we mainly focus on where we have succeeded. It is...

As the first year of its tenure has come to a close, many continue to question whether Burma’s elected civilian-led government has managed to accomplish its aims, or if in this regard, it has failed. One certain thing we have witnessed is that the government led by State Counselor Daw Aung San Su...

24 April 2017 – If nothing is done soon, 20 million people will starve to death over the next six months in South Sudan, Somalia, north-eastern Nigera and Yemen, the United Nations agricultural chief today warned the UN agency's Council. Addressing the opening of the 165th session of the UN Food ...

News comment by Volker Türk, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, on new Mediterranean shipwreck UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened at the news of another shipwreck in the Mediterranean, which may have left up to 146 people dead or missing. This morning in Lampedusa,...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today called for a temporary suspension of all transfers of asylum-seekers to Hungary from other European States under the Dublin Regulation. The Dublin regulation is an EU instrument that determines which European State is responsible for examining an asylum seeker’s a...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - UNICEF and UNHCR today welcome a new policy guidance from the European Commission as an important milestone for the protection of migrant and refugee children. “It is the first EU policy to address the situation and rights of all children in migration – refugee and migrant child...

Running a small neighborhood restaurant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo gives a cook back her pride and her independence.

By Nellie Peyton DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - School teachers in the Lake Chad region where Boko Haram is waging an insurgency are being trained to identify and respond to security threats to protect children from the Islamist group, the United Nations said on Thursday. Schools are parti...