Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
By SAN YAMING AUNG / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON—A group of 170 Burmese migrant workers returned from Malaysia on Friday with the help of a Buddhist monk, who funded their flight home. Naypyidaw is cooperating with the Kuala Lumpur government during an ongoing crackdown on...
Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The first Burmese Muslim mosque built worldwide in more than three decades is going up in Fort Wayne. The Mosque and Learning Center being erected on the city’s south side is owned by the Burmese Muslim Education and Community...
Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
By Zin Linn A peacemaking meeting was held between the United Nationalities Federation Council (UNFC) and a government peacemaking team led by President’s Office Minister U Aung Min on 8 September in Chiang Mai, Thailand. U Aung Min’s true intention was selling the...
Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
Author: Thin Lei Win MAHACHAI, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It was 6:30 in the morning. School wouldn’t be starting for another two-and-a-half hours. Yet there I was, on the back of a pick-up truck as it bounced along bumpy roads. Despite the early hour,...
Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY BERLIN, Germany — A pre-autumn chill in the air of Germany’s capital brought a shiver to some of the tropically acclimated Burmese journalists on a trip to study political reporting here, in a country thousands of miles from Southeast...
