Oct 19, 2013 | News / Article
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U Sein Win, a journalist who championed press freedom in Myanmarand endured three stints in prison, died on Thursday in Yangon, Myanmar. He was 91. Enlarge This Image U Sein Win in 1969. His family announced the death. Mr. Sein Win, who was the...
Oct 17, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
By Associated Press MAUNGDAW, Myanmar — The 10-year-old struggles up the hill, carrying buckets filled with rocks. Though he tries to keep a brave face in front of his friends, his eyes brim with tears. Every inch of his body aches, he says, and he feels sick and...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
By SAMANTHA MICHAELS / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — The mornings were full of walking, says Khin Mar Shwe, a nurse near Burma’s biggest city, recalling her days as a midwife under the former military regime. She was a young woman then, and would begin a few days every week...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY Burma’s Ministry of Labor has announced plans to start issuing regular passports to Burmese migrants in Thailand from next month. The passports, which are the same as those issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs in Rangoon, will replace...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi meets European Union leaders this weekend before heading to Luxembourg for talks with EU foreign ministers and to Strasbourg to pick up a prize she won 23 years ago. PHOTOS Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AFP/Attila...
