Dinner time in Pakahtawng camp
A time lapse of Maijayang’s Pakahtawng camp in Kachin state. There are 2457 people living in the camp – the children are from northern Shan state and were sent to[…]
AH1N1 virus hits Thailand refugee camp
Aug 14, 2009 (DVB), Four Burmese children living in a refugee camp close to the Thai-Burma border have been infected with the AH1N1 virus, according to a medical aid group[…]
Dengue fever hits Thailand refugee camp
July 29, 2009 (DVB), An outbreak of dengue fever has hit a camp in Thailand that holds some 37,000 refugees from Burma, with ten people so far known to have[…]
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50,000th Burmese border refugee resettled in US
July 1, 2009 (DVB), The UN's refugee agency announced yesterday that it had resettled the 50,000th Burmese refugee from Thailand's nine border refugee camps as part of the world's largest[…]
Waiting in silence: life in a border refugee camp
Rosalie SmithMar 17, 2009 (DVB), Although being in Nu Pho camp feels like being in any little village peppered with bamboo huts, no one I spoke to there seemed to[…]
Student injured at hard labour camp
Aug 8, 2008 (DVB), Ko Nay Linn Soe, one of 10 Muslim students who were recently sent to remote prison labour camps, is in hospital after being hit by a[…]
NLD member to be sent to labour camp
Dec 26, 2007 (DVB), National League for Democracy member U Win Myint, who was sentenced to three years in prison for possession of a weapon, is being sent to a[…]
Camp committee investigates refugee's death
Dec 20, 2007 (DVB), Following the death of a young refugee from Karenni refugee camp 1 in Mae Hong Son district in Thailand, the camp committee is preparing a case[…]
