Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY BERLIN, Germany — A pre-autumn chill in the air of Germany’s capital brought a shiver to some of the tropically acclimated Burmese journalists on a trip to study political reporting here, in a country thousands of miles from Southeast...
Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
By Kelly Macnamara (AFP) YANGON — From political activists freed after years in Myanmar’s jails to stricken and impoverished families, all are welcome at Yangon’s Muslim Free Hospital — a symbol of unity in a country riven by religious unrest. There...
Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
By Zak Rose During the period of strict economic sanctions and export bans that Western countries levied against Myanmar through the 1990s and 2000s, the military government had little choice but to turn to China. China, with its deep pockets and a strategic focus on...
Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
By SAMANTHA MICHAELS / THE IRRAWADDY Growing up in southeast Myanmar’s Mon State, Min Yarzar Mon listened to his parents tell stories of ethnic Mon kingdoms that ruled centuries ago, and of decades-long conflicts more recently between Mon armed groups and the national...
Sep 17, 2013 | News / Article
Reuters VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog will gain wider inspection powers in Myanmar under an agreement to be signed this week, in a further sign of the formerly army-ruled Asian state opening up to the outside world. Myanmar will sign the so-called...
Sep 14, 2013 | News / Article
By KO HTWE The weather is often misty and cold in the mountainous jungle surrounding Koung Jor, the Shan refugee camp located a stone’s throw from the Burmese border in Thailand’s Wiang Haeng district. Koung Jor means “happy hill”, and dozens of Shan families were...
