Nov 19, 2012 | News / Article
The role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the affairs of the Rohingya minority in Burma must be one of humanitarian engagement and consistency, said Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, the General Secretary of ASEAN, in response to a question at the ASEAN...
Nov 19, 2012 | News / Article
President Obama will make history on Monday, becoming the first-ever U.S. president to visit Burma, a long-isolated Southeast Asian rogue state, called Myanmar by its rulers. The Obama administration has set rapprochement land speed records in its efforts to encourage...
Nov 19, 2012 | Bangladesh
The Bangladesh government has rejected comments by Myanmar (Burma) opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, suggesting stateless Muslim Rohingyas may be illegal Bangladeshi migrants. Myanmar has been rocked by two outbreaks of fighting between Buddhists and Rohingyas...
Nov 19, 2012 | News / Article
By Associated Press, Published: November 18 BANGKOK — A leading international rights group on Sunday accused Myanmar security forces of supporting some of the brutal anti-Muslim violence last month that forced 35,000 people from torched homes. The government rejected...
Nov 19, 2012 | News / Article
DJIBOUTI: The world’s top Islamic body called on Saturday for the international community to protect Muslims in Myanmar’s unrest-hit Rakhine state from “genocide” as US President Barack Obama readied for a landmark trip to the country. “We expect the United States to...
