Burma — not good enough

Saudi Gazette-Editorial THE best hotels in Rangoon, once Burma’s capital and still its commercial heart, are busy with businessmen from all over the world, anxious to secure of a slice of a resource rich-economy,  which is coming in from the cold, after years of...

Burma ‘failed to protect’ UN rights envoy

BBC News-Asia The UN human rights envoy to Burma has accused the country’s government of failing to protect him when his convoy came under attack this week. Tomas Ojea Quintan said this happened during his visit to the central town of Meiktila, the scene of...

Myanmar risks spiralling anti-Muslim unrest

BANGKOK: 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 Human Rights described attacks on Muslims, that have...

Burmese Buddhists turn on Muslim minority

Tom Farrell Buddhist extremists are stirring up hatred of Rohingya and other Muslims in a display of racism that is part of a political agenda Just beyond the administrative buildings in Sittwe, capital of the state of Rakhine (Arakan) in northwestern Burma, a...

This week in history: August 19-25

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week. 25 years ago: Burmese military regime totters In response to the continuing mass demonstrations across the country, a civilian, Dr. U Maung Maung, was...