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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bethel University Sophomore Htee Wah Moo doesn't remember much of her life in Thailand. "I remember, like the school, and stuff like that," she said. While her memories are few, she's not alone in her ...

A long-dormant fluorite mine is being reopened in northern Thailand, but the ethnically Karen communities that live in Mae Hong Son province’s Mae La Noi district are staunchly resisting the return of ...

Thailand is home to countless exotic delicacies but have you ever heard of eating ant eggs! The Karen tribe of Northern Thailand enjoys eating red ant eggs when in season, prepared steamed in bamboo ...

MAE SOT, Thailand, June 8 (Reuters) - Nearly 1,800 ethnic Karen, most of them women and children, have fled to Thailand from Myanmar where the army has launched an offensive against Karen guerrillas, ...

BANGKOK — 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 ...

Lack of alternatives and unbeatable salaries are among many reasons why disadvantaged young Southeast Asians work gladly in ...

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 ...