MAE HONG SON, Thailand, June 30 (UNHCR) - With a look of apprehension on his face, a traditional woven pink bag slung over his shoulder and his wife and baby daughter at his side, a young school ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Refugees from Myanmar, who were granted work permits by the Thai government, work at a longan farm in Chanthaburi province, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. policy change triggers medical crisis for Myanmar refugees in Thailand BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand will give legal employment ...

BAN MAE NAI SOI CAMP, Thailand, November 22 (UNHCR) - With the opening Wednesday of the first of seven planned legal assistance centres, tens of thousands of Burmese refugees in Thailand should soon ...

MAE SOT, Thailand — Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the ...

The wrinkled limestone karst landscape of the Thai-Burmese border is home to around 130,000 Burmese refugees. Many who fled decades of ethnic conflict have lost their lands, families and livelihoods, ...

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Thai government to permit Myanmar refugees in the country to travel and seek employment, amid food and healthcare shortages resulting from US aid ...

A woman from Kent who trains and competes in Muay Thai boxing has taken her skills to Greece where she has been volunteering to empower women living in refugee camps. Kat Samuelson, who lives near ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand will give legal employment rights to thousands of Myanmar refugees now living in camps along the border between the two countries, the government said on Wednesday, a move ...