Jul 5, 2013 | News / Article
Blogger and activist Nay Phone Latt has called for an amendment to the 2004 Electronic Transactions Act that saw him sentenced to 15 years jail in 2008. He made the comments following the launch of his latest book, which is a series of letters he wrote in prison...
Jul 5, 2013 | News / Article
Author: Eliane Coates, RSIS Renewed violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar appears to be spreading regionally, with tensions threatening to spill over to Malaysia and Indonesia. In particular, there are concerns that the violence among Myanmar nationals in...
Jul 5, 2013 | News / Article
There are, as we all know, loads of foreign buyers snapping up property in Britain. Most of London, according to the headlines at least, is owned by a super-rich cabal of Russian, Middle Eastern, Chinese etc investors. But you don’t often here about Myanmar. And yet...
Jul 4, 2013 | News / Article
By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY Authorities in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, have been rounding up more than 200 Burmese migrant workers on allegations that they are involved in crimes or lack legal permits to stay in the country. Migrant rights groups complain...