Reforms in Myanmar may spark refugee return
The children who live in this camp for Burmese refugees have known no other life. Neither have many of their parents — or their grandparents.Yet now, surprisingly rapid reforms and cease-fires under way ...
Lead poisoning common in Burmese refugee kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many Burmese refugee children bound for the U.S. may have dangerously high levels of lead in their blood, a new government study finds. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that of 642 U.S.-bound Burmese children, 90 percent had some amount of lead in their blood. Overall, 5 percent had lead poisoning -- including nearly 15 percent ...
Reforms in Burma may spark refugee return
MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (AP) — The pastor stood before more than 300 young Burmese refugees gathered for morning prayers in a weathered, jungle church. “There’s a time for war, and a time for peace. Sixty-three years is long enough for killing,” he told them. “Hope to see you all soon in our beautiful
Myanmar reforms may spark refugee return
THE children who live in the border camp for Myanmar refugees have known no other life. Neither have many of their parents -- or their grandparents.
Tailoring education: Refugee-status students, their schools make adjustments for learning
There are 17 other students in Logansport Community School Corporation that have arrived in Logansport from refugee camps in Burma and Thailand.
Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsReforms in Myanmar may spark refugee return
MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (AP) - The pastor stood before more than 300 young Burmese refugees gathered for morning prayers in a weathered, jungle church.
Book Review: The Windup Girl
New submitter Hector's House writes "'Nothing is certain. Nothing is secure,' reflects one of the characters in Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Windup Girl. In 23rd century Bangkok, life for many hangs by a thread. Oil has run out; rising seas threatens to engulf the city; genetically engineered diseases hover on Thailand's borders; and the threat of violence smolders as government ministries vie ...
Jacksonville a strange new world for refugees from Burma
America is both a challenge and an adventure for the Christian refugees from Myanmar in Jim Price's American citizenship class at Southside Baptist Church. It's a place that's almost science-fiction compared to refugee camps in the jungles of neighboring Thailand, where they lived after a repressive military regime in the former Burma forced them from their ancestral homes.