Maintaining culture and language is very important ... Decades of civil wars in the country drove hundreds of thousands of Karen people to seek refuge in the neighboring country, Thailand.

What if the middle-aged white women often derided as entitled and privileged were actually the 'sentinels' of society, keeping our rules-based order enforced?

Seisei Mu Thein, head of the Karen Organisation Bendigo said that Karen people started settling in ... Bendigo Neighbourhood Hub, Karen Culture Social Support Foundation and Bendigo Community ...