By S'Phan Shaung / Karen News | July 12, 2017 Over 1,000 signatures have so far been collected on a petition against building a coal-fired power plant in Karen State, according to local activists. Saw Aung Than Htwe from [...]
Burma Link | June 29, 2017 As the President of the Karen Student Network Group (KSNG), Saw Htoo Htoo Stin has an important role in shaping the future of the youth of Karen State. He and the KSNG organization [...]
Burma Link | June 27, 2017 Saw Bless grew up a multi-ethnic village in Taungoo, Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 2. Things started changing for young Saw Bless after he started going to school ran by the Karen Education Department [...]
Burma Link | June 22, 2017 Marking the World Refugee Day on June 20, 2017, the Karen Student Network Group (KSNG) released their position on refugee return to Burma in a press conference organised in Mae Sot on the [...]
Karen News on Vimeo | June 20, 2017 The voice and concerns of refugees and internally displaced peoples are being neglected Naw Htee T’Blay Paw Noh Poe Refugee camp “The matter isn’t that we don’t want to go back [...]
Saw Mort and Saw Soe Doh / Karen News | June 21, 2017 Thousands of refugees living in camps on the Thai Burma gathered at an event to mark World Refugee Day on June, 20. The camps have been [...]
Burma Link | June 20, 2017 Saw Say Moo is a 27-year-old ethnic Karen refugee from Mu Traw district, Karen state. Ever since he was born, Say Moo has had a challenging life. With his two siblings and his parents, [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | June 19, 2017 With only rice to eat and no work opportunities to be had, families sheltering at the Ei Tu Hta Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Kayin (Karen) State are planning to return [...]
Burma Link | June 15, 2017 Naw Wah is committed to improving the lives of a great number of people. First, she has the residents of Karen State’s T’wal Thaw village, of which she is the village chief. Then [...]
Karen News | June 13, 2017 As Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s State Counsellor, concluded her Canadian tour in Toronto, members of the Karen community claimed she failed to discuss the countries armed conflict, displacement, refugees or the [...]