Sep 10, 2013 | News / Article
Xinhua Publish By Joseph A. Cambra Myanmar has set to add a new television channel named the National Races Channel, aimed at widening the scope of the people. Test broadcasting of the channel with eight nationalities languages is to be done in mid-October and the...
Sep 10, 2013 | News / Article
Reliefweb OVERVIEW A 11-truck humanitarian convoy led by the UN and other humanitarian partners delivered food, medicines, and other items to displaced communities living in the Woi Chyai Camp in Laiza town. Significantly, this is the first time that cross-line...
Sep 10, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
By Danny Gold, NBC News contributor SITTWE, Myanmar — Driven from their homes by mob violence, many members of one of the world’s most persecuted minorities face a harrowing dilemma: to tolerate horrendous conditions in sites likened to “prison camps” or to risk their...
Sep 10, 2013 | News / Article
Burma Times Whenever Burma-watchers get together these days, one topic that usually gets an airing is the prospect of another military coup. Some analysts have put the likelihood of this happening over the next five years as high as 20%, while others believe the odds...
