Nov 9, 2013 | News / Article
In an open letter addressed to EU High Reresentative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, the General Secretary of UNPO urges EU representatives to devote special attention to the Chin and Rohingya ethnic minorities in Myanmar in light of the upcoming EU-Myanmar...
Oct 21, 2013 | News / Article
By KYAW HSU MON / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — British investment in Burma is on the rise, but problems on the ground in the Southeast Asian frontier market have some investors reluctant to commit, UK Ambassador to Burma Andrew Patrick said at a press conference on...
Oct 21, 2013 | News / Article
By ALIRAN It is time for Burma’s pro-democracy movement to speak out against the targeted attacks on the Muslims in that country, says Bonojit Hussain. “We have to ask ourselves whether we may have over-romanticised its battles against the junta as a broader quest to...
Oct 21, 2013 | News / Article
Burma Times ( By Ibrahim Shah) Evidently, through the independent media worldwide, the crime against humanity or Rohingya genocide in western part of Burma is exposed. while the Rohingya-Genocide-Bell is ringing loudly that the Rakhine extremists collaborating...
Oct 20, 2013 | News / Article
By REUTERS and DVB Nearly 30 million people are living in slavery around the globe, many of them trafficked by gangs for sex work and unskilled labour, according to a global slavery survey released on Thursday. The survey by anti-slavery charity Walk Free Foundation...
Oct 20, 2013 | News / Article
Written by Derek Tonkin In the House of Commons on Tuesday, the minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hugo Swire, had a twinge of conscience when he said that the UN Secretary-General’s “Group of Friends on Burma” – as he had called the...
