By KYAW KHA YANGON—A fire at the Nu Po refugee camp sheltering Myanmar refugees in Umphang District of Tak Province in Thailand destroyed at least 50 houses on Monday, according to refugees at the...
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By KYAW KHA YANGON—A fire at the Nu Po refugee camp sheltering Myanmar refugees in Umphang District of Tak Province in Thailand destroyed at least 50 houses on Monday, according to refugees at the...
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By HTET NAING ZAW More than 34,000 migrant workers have returned to Myanmar since the Thai government launched a crackdown on illegal foreign workers, according to the Union minister for labor,...
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By Saw Yan Naing 28 April 2017 MAE LA, Thailand — Eighty-year-old Karen refugee Naw Pe lies near the cooking area in her bamboo hut, surrounded by pans, pots, baskets, and rotting foods. She has a...
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By Saw Yan Naing 26 April 2017 MAE SARIANG, Thailand — Some 10,000 community workers in nine refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border will be affected by financial cuts as funding declines, according...
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By Leena Zieger The changes in Burma’s political landscape have affected the country’s population in varying ways. Among the less fortunate citizens are tens of thousands of young refugees whose...
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By Saw Yan Naing CHIANG MAI, Thailand — A growing number of suicide cases in a Burmese refugee camp in Mae La, Thailand has raised concerns with camp authorities. Saw Honest, the chairman of Mae La...
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By NYEIN NYEIN 19 December 2016 CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Nine years ago, Nang Kham Sein left her native Shan State’s Kunlon Township with her parents for northern Thailand in search of better incomes,...
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By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY| Monday, August 1, 2016 | CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Service centers providing support for Burmese refugees returning home voluntarily are to be established in all nine...
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By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — The United Nation’s (UN) refugee agency, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is conducting a “last call” resettlement initiative for Burmese...
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By KYAW KHA/ THE IRRAWADDY MAE SOT, Thailand — The explosion knocked Mya Win out as her teenage body went flying. When she regained consciousness, she found herself at a hospital in Mae Sot, the Thai...
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BANGKOK — Sheltering in the backroom of a provincial Thai police station is a 35-year-old street vendor who triggered a human trafficking investigation that has reverberated across Southeast Asia. He...
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By KHIN OO THA / THE IRRAWADDY| Thursday, May 14, 2015 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Scores of workers from Burma were rescued on Tuesday from a shrimp processing facility in Thailand after being locked...
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By THE IRRAWADDY| Friday, May 8, 2015 Burma will soon open a consulate in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, according to a source close to the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok. Hundreds of thousands of...
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By AMY SAWITTA LEFEVRE / REUTERS BANGKOK — Thai police on Friday found at least 30 graves believed to belong to migrants from Burma and Bangladesh at what authorities say is an abandoned trafficking...
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By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY| Friday, January 16, 2015 | CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The UN refugee agency and Thailand’s Ministry of Interior will conduct a verification exercise on the Burmese...
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By NYEIN NYEIN CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Burmese migrants and NGOs supporting migrants in Thailand have called on the Thai government to reform its social security system so that legally registered...
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By LAWI WENG RANGOON — Scores of refugees are in detention after being rescued by Thailand’s anti-human trafficking police from a rubber plantation just north of Phuket in Thailand’s Phang Nga...
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By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY| CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Thai authorities plan to put a new rule in place allowing foreign migrant laborers without passports to work in border towns of the Kingdom on...
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By NYEIN NYEIN CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The Burmese Embassy in Thailand is revising procedures for Burmese migrants to receive regular passports, the Burmese government says. The revision comes after...
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By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Thai and Burmese authorities will begin talks soon over plans for the repatriation of Burmese refugees, but the UN refugee agency cautions that...