Oct 17, 2013 | News / Article
Naing Ko Ko Special to The Nation Instead of focusing on low-salaried bureaucrats as the main cause of graft, advocates need to go after those at the very top of the centres of power When I started to write about anti-corruption issues in Myanmar on the East Asia...
Oct 15, 2013 | News / Article
Filed by KOSU News in World News. Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that have been fighting the government —...
Oct 15, 2013 | News / Article
VOA News Police in Burma say they have found at least two unexploded bombs following explosions that killed two people and injured several others in recent days. Authorities say one unexploded bomb was found Monday in Mandalay, while another was discovered in Rangoon....
Oct 15, 2013 | News / Article
By JACK GOODMAN British MP Valerie Vaz addressed the House of Commons last week to discuss the findings of an eight-day cross-party delegation to Burma in August. She met afterwards with DVB’s Jack Goodman to discuss the delegation, British foreign policy towards...
Oct 14, 2013 | News / Article
By Sumit Ganguly “Rapid democratisation in plural societies from years of colonial rule may provide opportunities for unscrupulous ethnic entrepreneurs to stoke crude nationalist sentiments” Early this month the International Crisis Group (ICG), a highly...
Oct 14, 2013 | News / Article
By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — Muslims hiding out in Rangoon say they are among more than 100 followers of Islam who fled religious violence in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township last week to seek refuge in Burma’s biggest city. An argument between an Arakanese...
