BANGKOK: Authorities in Thailand have arrested two men following a bomb blast at a festival near the border with Myanmar that ...

Myanmar’s military government is set to hold elections later this year, so some are expecting the Myanmar military government to clamp down on the various ethnic armed groups, including the Karen.

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Myanmar's army is losing - and facing fire from a militant monk The Karen National Union has been fighting for self-rule for the ethnic Karen people since Myanmar's independence in 1948.

30,000 people in Karen State alone in Burma (Myanmar). About seven thousand families are sheltering in 50 temporary camps, opened by the State government. The SBS Karen Program spoke to Nan Wai ...

Police say a member of rebel group KNU clashed with ‘rival gangster’ in Tak province, but group denies involvement.

Documented airstrikes on villages examined by researchers from the Karen Human Rights Group based in Myanmar's southeast ... groups collectively called the People’s Defense Forces, formed ...