MYANMAR, formerly Burma, is in crisis for the sixth day. Highly influential Buddhist monks have led peaceful demonstrations in Yangon, protesting against the military government. Yesterday in a highly symbolic move, a thousand monks led other demonstrators to the home...
By Dr. Habib SiddiquiInna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioun. I am really shocked to hear the sad demise of Prof. Abdul Karim. I met him more than 3 decades ago in Chittagong in our home. He was one of the best known historians of our time who had produced some of...
By Nick AllenMay 14 (Bloomberg) — More than one billion people may be forced from their homes between now and 2050 in a global migration crisis dwarfing the effects of the Second World War, according to a report by the relief and development agency Christian...
Teknaf, Bangladesh: A meeting was held in a Burmese refugee camp on May 9 on ways how to develop education for children of refugees who have been living in Bangladesh, said a teacher of the camp. An NGO, the Technical Assistance Institute (TAI), organized the...
By Lalit K Jha/New YorkMay 08, 2007Burma continues to be a significant item on the agenda of the United States of America at the Unite Nations, according to the new US Ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad. Khalilzad, who assumed the presidency of the UN Security...
By Dr San Oo AungThere are virtually countless number of people in Burma displaced both within and without the country's borders because of the military regime SPDC’s ethnic cleansing and brutal oppressions. And some times because SPDC wants to give away...
