UN, Govt to announce revised Rakhine plan

The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ashok Nigam and Burma’s Minister for Border Affairs Lt-Gen. Thein Htay have announced that they will unveil a “Revised Rakhine Response Plan” to the media on Wednesday, November 21. In a joint statement on...

5 things to watch for in Obama’s visit to Burma

President Obama will make history on Monday, becoming the first-ever U.S. president to visit Burma, a long-isolated Southeast Asian rogue state, called Myanmar by its rulers. The Obama administration has set rapprochement land speed records in its efforts to encourage...

‘Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state face genocide’

DJIBOUTI: The world’s top Islamic body called on Saturday for the international community to protect Muslims in Myanmar’s unrest-hit Rakhine state from “genocide” as US President Barack Obama readied for a landmark trip to the country. “We expect the United States to...