New York, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — George Soros and the Open Society Foundations today announced an emergency assistance fund of USD 10 million to help Rohingya people displaced from Myanmar and host communities in Bangladesh. From April to October there is a high risk of flash floods, landslides, and cyclones in southern Bangladesh, where [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will extend US$1.5 million worth of humanitarian assistance for refugees from Myanmar after an outbreak of violence last month caused an exodus into neighboring Bangladesh, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. The insurgent attacks against the Myanmarese police and military forces in the state of Rakhine on Aug. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government plans to bring in some 30 Myanmar refugees currently in Thailand and grant them permanent settlement, in accordance with an U.N. agency program, officials said Monday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees resettlement program transfers refugees living in temporary camps in an asylum country [...]