BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand will give legal employment rights to thousands of Myanmar refugees now living in camps along the border between the two countries, the government said on Wednesday, a move ...

Great-grandparents Pree and Dee Noe are looking forward to returning to their homeland after three decades in north-western Thailand. “When we left Myanmar, the situation was not good,” says ...

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Thai government to permit Myanmar refugees in the country to travel and seek employment, amid food and healthcare shortages resulting from US aid ...

Bangkok, Thailand, August 29, 2025 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) welcomes the news that after 40 years of hosting communities fleeing violence in Myanmar, the Royal Thai Government will ...

Last week, under the world's largest refugee resettlement programme, the number of Myanmar refugees who had left Thailand to begin new lives in third countries passed the 20,000 mark. Since the ...

The United Nations and Human Rights Watch have joined others to laud Thailand for enabling long-term refugees from Myanmar to work legally in the country. The decision could impact the lives of more ...

The wrinkled limestone karst landscape of the Thai-Burmese border is home to around 130,000 Burmese refugees. Many who fled decades of ethnic conflict have lost their lands, families and livelihoods, ...

Myanmar tattooist Ng La cares little for the national election organised by his country’s despised military leaders.

(Adds arrests and killings in Bangladesh, and graphic link; edits) LHOKSUKON, Indonesia/KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 (Reuters) - M alaysia has detained more than a thousand Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugees, ...