Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY Burma’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday it has found high levels of urea in a sample of fish paste, or Ngapi, which is a staple of the Burmese diet. Last month, Myanmar’s only consumer rights group—the Consumer Protection...
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
By SIMON ROUGHNEEN / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — Eight months after the global money transfer giant started operations in Burma, Western Union says people in 107 countries have sent money to the previously sanctioned Southeast Asian country. With eight local banks onboard...
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
By Michaela Pontellini They Call it Myanmar – A Netflix Review. Ask the average person what they know about Burma, and chances are that they won’t be able to tell you much. Once one of Asia’s most advanced countries, Burma has been struggling under the iron...
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
By SIMON ROUGHNEEN / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — Ko Ko Aung cannot forget the day six years ago when he spoke to his friend and colleague Kenji Nagai for the last time. “It was around 11.30 Rangoon time when he called,” recalls the former Japan-based Burmese exile. It was...
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
By – Zin Linn Burma/Myanmar remains one of the world’s least developed countries, and was ranked 138 out of 182 countries in the 2010 UN’s Human Development Index. Burma is one of Asia’s poorest countries, reflected in its health indicators. It had the 44th...
Sep 28, 2013 | News / Article
By AYE AYE WIN Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sharpened her criticism of her country’s incomplete transition to democracy, saying the next general election in 2015 cannot be fair unless the army-imposed...
