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 ...

A foreign aid shortfall, soaring demand and inflation are forcing charities in Thailand to drastically cut food allowances to tens of thousands of refugees who fled neighboring Myanmar — a move that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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