Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By Zin Linn Burma/Myanmar government armed forces have been maneuvering strategic warfare against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) the armed wing of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) this time seems to be a crucial military operation of seizing more...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — Rice rations for many of the more than 120,000 Burmese refugees living on the Thai-Burma border will be reduced, due to a reduction in funding for a humanitarian organization that has provided food for them for more than two...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY Diplomats and scholars say neighboring India has much to offer Burma as it transitions away from authoritarian rule, with the world’s largest democracy also no stranger to the kind of ethnic conflicts that have for decades troubled the...
Oct 2, 2013 | News / Article
(Burma Times) Yangon – The United States is deeply concerned about recent reports of violence against Muslim-majority communities around Thandwe, Rakhine State. We are saddened to hear reports that at least one person was killed, several injured, and hundreds of...
Oct 1, 2013 | News / Article
BurmaTimes – Ibrahim Shah- Around twelve o’clock at midday on 29th September, a motorcycle owned by one Buddhist youth Maung Naing Oo was placed in front of a shop owned by the Chairman of Kaman Muslim party in Thandwe. The Buddhist youths started to argue harshly...
Oct 1, 2013 | News / Article
(Burmatimes) by WAM NEW YORK, 28th September 2013 (WAM)– The UAE has expressed concern over the acts of violence which target the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, and demanded the international community encourage the government of Myanmar to carry out its duty to...
