Civilians continue to get caught in the crossfire between the Myanmar military and ethnic Karen forces as fighting rages on. Temporary haven: Between Dec. 16 and Dec. 21, 4,216 villagers fled from a ...

Doctor Pia Jolliffe teaches modern Japanese history at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She also researches children’s education and the history of the Jesuit mission in the 16th and ...

Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority on Thursday claimed to have captured the last of the army’s outposts in Myawaddy township in eastern Myanmar, virtually clearing the way for them to take over ...

BANGKOK (AP) — About 3,000 villagers from territory in eastern Myanmar controlled by the Karen ethnic minority fled across the border to Thailand on Sunday after Myanmar military aircraft dropped ...

BANGKOK — Guerrilla fighters from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority claimed Monday to be close to seizing control of a major trading town bordering Thailand, as soldiers and civil servants loyal to the ...

Thai authorities continued to deny national entry to thousands of ethnic Karen people—members of a minority group residing primarily in southern and southeastern Myanmar—after they attempted to seek ...

(New York) - Thailand should immediately stop pressuring ethnic Karen refugees to return to Burma, Human Rights Watch said today. Repatriation to the designated "return zone" in Burma would place ...

THAM HIN, Thailand, August 18 (UNHCR) - The first of hundreds of Karen refugees who are slated to be resettled in the United States left their long-time refuge in the tropical forests of Thailand this ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 12 June 2009 UNHCR staff have visited ...

Burma's information minister says neighboring Thailand could do more to help curb a decades-old insurgency in Burma's east. Burma's state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said Information Minister ...

Soldiers in Thailand began to send back people fleeing from Myanmar after airstrikes shook that country over the weekend, people familiar with the situation told the Associated Press on Monday.