Aid workers in northern Thailand described widespread confusion following the US aid freeze, especially among those whose work provides life-saving services to some of the world’s most vulnerable and ...

Soe Doh and his brother started SKD Auto Tek a decade ago, and the shop is solely owned and operated by Karen refugees.

The head of a Thai parliamentary committee that oversees border affairs and refugee camp officials told VOA the suspension by ...

When Ilana Gritzewsky returned to Israel after being held captive in Gaza for 55 days in November 2023, she had so much ...

The Mae La refugee camp was first established 40 years ago on the Thai-Myanmar border, and today many refugees living there do not know life anywhere else. Without a right to work in Thailand, the ...

BANGKOK—A 90-day freeze on foreign assistance programs announced by US President Donald Trump has led to cuts in services to refugees from war-torn Myanmar, including the shutdown of hospital care in ...

Karen refugees sit on a porch at a refugee camp near the Mae La Refugee Camp in western Thailand, June 29, 2010. The Karen are an ethnic minority people of about 4 million. BANGKOK—A 90-day ...

The consortium’s mid-year report last year said the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration was ...

The camp is home to about 10,000 refugees. Ma, an ethnic Karen and Baptist Christian, is originally from Nga Phae Inn, a village in Nyaung Lay Bin township, in Myanmar's Bago region. She fled her home ...

a nonprofit founded by Karen refugees from Burma. The organization focuses on providing resources to local immigrant and refugee communities. SKD owner Soe Doh also serves as a board member at KOM.