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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNHCR staff have visited five sites in northern Thailand where Karen villagers are taking shelter after fleeing eastern Myanmar since 3 June. We have now verified the presence of 2,000 recent arrivals ...

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.

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 ...