1 - 10 of 11 results for "Karen"

  1. 1. learning | 04 Feb 2013

    Kaeng Krachan welcomes Karen group

    Easy English news

    By Terry Fredrickson

    » Karen tribespeople are used to being evicted from Kaeng Krachan National Park, but not welcomed. Now one group of Karen who lost their land in 1996 is getting a second chance.

  2. 2. learning | 11 Jan 2013

    Final round victory for Karen villagers

    General news

    By Terry Fredrickson

    » The Supreme Administrative Court Thursday ordered the Pollution Control Department (PCD) to pay nearly 4 million baht in compensation to 22 Karen villagers over lead contamination at Klity Creek.

  3. 3. learning | 21 Feb 2013

    Tough road to recovery for Karen girl

    General news

    By Terry Fredrickson

    » The scald wounds covering the body of the 12-year-old Karen girl who fell victim to slavery can be cured although she won't make a perfect recovery, a doctor at Ramathibodi Hospital says.

  4. 4. lifestyle | 08 May 2013

    Caring Karen

    Newspaper section: Life

    » Ethnic Karen children pose as they arrived yesterday to join a hilltribe gathering at the Royal Plaza yesterday. A hilltribe cultural show festival was staged and broadcast live, with the aim of sharing their tradition w...

  5. 5. news | 23 Mar 2013

    35 die in fire at Karen refugee camp

    REFUGEES

    Newspaper section: News

    » MAE HONG SON: Rescue workers picked through the ashes of hundreds of shelters on Saturday after a ferocious blaze swept through a camp for Karen refugees in Mae Hong Son, killing 35 people.

  6. 6. news | 29 Mar 2013

    Shacks offer little respite for refugees

    By Paritta Wangkiat, Newspaper section: News

    » A week has passed since the deadly fire at Mae Surin camp, but the frightening scene of the disaster still haunts 60-year-old Karen refugee Na Mu Ta.

  7. 7. learning | 25 Mar 2013

    Refugee camp fire cause still in dispute

    General news

    By Terry Fredrickson

    » It is still not clear what caused the inferno that killed 37 Karen refugees and injured more than 100 in Mae Hong Song camp on Friday. Humanitarian assistance is now pouring in. Photo by Thiti Wannamontha.

  8. 8. learning | 08 Feb 2012

    Finally, compensation for Klity Creek victims

    Easy English news

    By Terry Fredrickson

    » Karen villagers from the Klity Creek area are one step closer to receiving compensation for the lead poison they have suffered since the 1990s.

  9. 9. news | 21 Apr 2013

    In a flash: from Myanmar's jungles to the wilds of urban America

    By Noel Boivin, Newspaper section: Spectrum

    » In late 2006, British photojournalist James Robert Fuller met Ta Ju, a Karen villager living in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border who was just about to embark on the first step of his family's resettlement to...

  10. 10. news | 24 Mar 2013

    Haze delays Charupong's flight

    By Online Reporters

    » Haze and thick smoke from forest fires on Sunday morning stalled a planned helicopter trip by Interior Minister Charupong Ruangsuwan and officials from Chiang Mai to the ravaged Karen refugee centre in Mae Hong Son's...

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