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...
Oct 20, 2013 | News / Article
By HANNA HINDSTROM The British government has defended its plans to offer military training to the Burmese army, despite revelations that the course may cover the “art and science of war” and “border security” management. Speaking to DVB on Thursday, the UK’s new...
Oct 20, 2013 | News / Article
By DVB Burmese opposition leader Aung Suu Kyi on Saturday said the 2015 elections in her country will not be democratic without constitutional changes. “The constitution must be amended,” the Nobel laureate said as she met European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso...
