Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
By AYE AYE WIN Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sharpened her criticism of her country’s incomplete transition to democracy, saying the next general election in 2015 cannot be fair unless the army-imposed...
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
Kyodo News International Myanmar’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, said Saturday it has failed to reach a consensus with ethnic political parties over whether to amend the Constitution or rewrite the entire charter, and they will seek...
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
Kyodo News International Four families from Myanmar comprising 18 people arrived Friday evening in Tokyo on a pilot refugee resettlement program Japan introduced in fiscal 2010. The families are of ethnic minorities in Myanmar, including Karen. They had been living in...
Sep 28, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
Associated Press, United Nations A group of Western and Asian governments are lauding Myanmar’s progress toward democracy but warning outbreaks of communal violence could undermine the reforms. Foreign ministers meeting Thursday on the sidelines of the U.N....
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
Author: Aung Hla Tun BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Myanmar court on Thursday sentenced 10 activists to three months in jail for protesting without a permit against a controversial Chinese-led oil and gas project in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, their...
