Fire at Myanmar refugee camp, Thailand, leaves thousands homeless ?NGO consortium
Fire hits refugee camp housing some 17,600 people, NGO consortium says
The Frontline Club launches survey on freelance journalist safety
The Frontline Club launched a survey into the safety of freelance journalists around the world on Thursday.
Encroaching deserts threaten life along Tibet's longest river
Changing rainfall patterns and rising temperatures, as well as overgrazing, are driving desertification near the Yarlung Zanbgo
Women along Thai-Myanmar border dying from unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions
The region in eastern Myanmar is home to some 140,000 refugees and 446,000 internally displaced people who have fled conflict
Nepal jails cabinet minister for amassing property, cars
Information and Communications Minister Jay Prakash Prasad Gupta is the first minister to be convicted for corruption in modern Nepal
Senegalese women want dialogue to defuse election violence
Women's groups are leading an initiative for peaceful elections to prevent the kind of violence that afflicts many countries in Africa after voting takes place
Refugees fleeing Mali unrest in need of urgent international aid ?UNHCR
More than 55,000 people have fled Mali into neighbouring Niger, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso while another 60,000 are internally displaced within Mali
Deadline for southerners to leave Sudan is impossible - aid groups
Fighting in the border region, a major lack of infrastructure in the south, and the imminent onset of the rainy season will make it impossible for large numbers to travel-aid agency