Aug 22, 2013 | News / Article
MENAFN (Menafn – STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE/ContentWorks via COMTEX) –U.S. Relations With Burma Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Fact Sheet August 13, 2013 U.S.-BURMA RELATIONS The United States supports a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Burma...
Aug 22, 2013 | News / Article
By Saw Eh Na A move by the Burmese government to send teachers to Karen National Union controlled areas has created tensions with villagers. Saw Mu Htee, from the Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG) who is visiting Karen schools in the Pa-an district spoke to Karen...
Aug 22, 2013 | News / Article
Editorial – S.H.A.N After reading a recent piece, dated 16 August, written by Harn Yawnghwe, in DVB, titled: “Can President Thein Sein be trusted?” two crucial points raised, need to be emphasized. One is “engaging the Bama or Burman” and the other, the need to...
Aug 22, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
AFP Myanmar has strongly denied previous accusations of ethnic cleansing Myanmar must address anti-Muslim propaganda and stamp out a culture of impunity for religious violence or risk “catastrophic” levels of conflict, a rights group warned Tuesday. Physicians for...
Aug 22, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
By Nopparat Chaichalearmmongkol and Wilawan Watcharasakwet BANGKOK – Thai officials continue the search of dozens of Rohingya asylum-seekers, who broke out of an immigration detention center in southern Thailand before dawn on Tuesday. Of the 87 Rohingya migrants who...