Plastic tubes meander from Rosella’s nose to a nearby oxygen tank that’s bigger than she is, as she flicks through a book of her drawings: a flower, a house, a chicken. The 9-year-old needs non-stop ...
“UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is aware of protests sparked in Mae La refugee camp with some unfortunate heightened tensions and damage to some assets last night. We encourage all parties to establish ...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (AP) – The children who live in this camp for Burmese refugees have known no other life. Neither have many of their parents _ or their grandparents. Yet now, surprisingly ...
THA SONG YANG, Thailand (Reuters) - A team of doctors and nurses battled to revive Adabi, an 86-year-old Myanmar refugee fighting long-standing heart problems and pneumonia, as her daughter watched ...
BANGKOK — A 90-day freeze on foreign assistance programs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump has led to cuts in services to refugees from war-torn Myanmar, including the shutdown of hospital care ...
Some 45,000 mainly ethnic Karen refugees live in Mae La, one of nine Thai government-run refugee camps strung along the border with Myanmar which shelter a total of 140,000 refugees. Some 43 percent ...
MAE SOT, Thailand, Aug 7 -- With rain falling steadily outside, first lady Laura Bush sat down inside a small hut near the Thai border with Burma on Thursday and invited a group of refugees who fled ...
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 ...