Calm returns to violence-scarred Myanmar town

Aug 27, 2013 | News / Article

By KHIN MAUNG WIN — Associated Press HTAN GONE, Myanmar — A tense calm returned Monday to a Myanmar town that was ripped apart by sectarian violence, leaving hundreds homeless after Buddhist mobs tore through the small, winding streets torching Muslim-owned houses and...

Burmese Army Sets up Camp in Disputed Territory

Aug 24, 2013 | News / Article

Burma’s army has begun building a “temporary” base camp in an area claimed by India along the two countries’ shared border, according to a report by the Imphal Free Press, an English-language daily published in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The camp is...

Youth Radio: Burmese Refugees Help Each Other Out In Carrboro

Aug 24, 2013 | Refugee

By Akib Khan This summer WUNC has been working with six youth reporters as part of the Summer Youth Radio Institute in our American Graduate Project.  Akib Khan moved with his family to the U.S. from Dhaka, Bangladesh when he was nine years old. He reports on the...