Jul 4, 2013 | News / Article
By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY Authorities in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, have been rounding up more than 200 Burmese migrant workers on allegations that they are involved in crimes or lack legal permits to stay in the country. Migrant rights groups complain...
Jul 4, 2013 | News / Article
Foreign ministers of Burma and Bangladesh have met in Brunei to discuss on various bilateral issues. In the sidelines of 20th 0207-aseanRegional Forum Ministerial Meeting, the foreign ministers of both the neighbouring countries sat together on Tuesday for bilateral...
Jul 4, 2013 | News / Article
By Zin Linn The President Thein Sein government has publicly declared its political and economic reforms including national reconciliation since it took office in March 2011. However, the government failed to handle its armed forces to keep up consistently with the...
Jul 4, 2013 | News / Article
Military confrontation between the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and the Burma Army (BA) that began in May has yet to show any signs of let-up and is slowly building up to showdown, according to local and Thai border sources. “Wa villagers (who had moved down to the...
Jul 4, 2013 | News / Article
Action Targets North Korean Military Sales to Burma WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Lt. General Thein Htay, the head of Burma’s Directorate of Defense Industries (DDI), pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13619, which targets those...
Jul 2, 2013 | News / Article
Posted by Jamie Pinnock on Monday, 1st July, 2013 Compassion, humility, and tranquillity: these are the images that we have typically come to associate with Buddhism in the West. It is a religion that preaches non-violence, and many in the Europe and America have...
