Oct 20, 2013 | News / Article
By Chit Su Since her release from prison in 1999, Myanmar writer and doctor, Ma Thida (Sanchaung), has dreamt of a day when Myanmar writers would be able to join colleagues around the world and establish an internationally recognised forum in which to develop creative...
Oct 19, 2013 | News / Article
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U Sein Win, a journalist who championed press freedom in Myanmarand endured three stints in prison, died on Thursday in Yangon, Myanmar. He was 91. Enlarge This Image U Sein Win in 1969. His family announced the death. Mr. Sein Win, who was the...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
By SAMANTHA MICHAELS / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — The mornings were full of walking, says Khin Mar Shwe, a nurse near Burma’s biggest city, recalling her days as a midwife under the former military regime. She was a young woman then, and would begin a few days every week...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY Burma’s Ministry of Labor has announced plans to start issuing regular passports to Burmese migrants in Thailand from next month. The passports, which are the same as those issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs in Rangoon, will replace...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi meets European Union leaders this weekend before heading to Luxembourg for talks with EU foreign ministers and to Strasbourg to pick up a prize she won 23 years ago. PHOTOS Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AFP/Attila...
Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
AP YANGON, Myanmar For the first time in Myanmar’s history, the Ministry of Defense is inviting women to join the army. An advertisement in the Myanmar Ahlin newspaper says the new cadets must be single, at least 5 feet, 3 inches (160 centimeters) tall, between...
