Aug 9, 2013 | News / Article
IRIN JOHANNESBURG, 5 August 2013 (IRIN) – Tents have long played an essential role in the emergency phase of humanitarian responses to refugee influxes. They are relatively light and cheap, and they can be stockpiled, flown in and erected in a short timeframe....
Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
By Justin Whitaker This Thursday marks the 25th anniversary of the 8/8/88 uprising in Burma, which will hopefully spur some much needed discussion about the situation in the country (officially renamed Myanmar by the military junta in 1989, but still called Burma by...
Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
BNI Thai border security has been wondering whether the Burmese government led by U Thein Sein and the armed forces led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing are at cross purposes when it comes to the ongoing peace process, according to senior security sources. The...
Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
HRW On 25th Anniversary of Crackdown, Accountability, Rule of Law Remain Elusive The mass killings 25 years ago in Burma are an unaddressed open wound that challenges the government’s rhetoric of reform. The government should shed itself of 50 years of denial about...
Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
by Maung Zarni Over the past three years, change in Myanmar has transpired at a dizzying pace. A cursory look at the turn of events, ranging from the release of hundreds of political prisoners to restored diplomatic relations with the West, indicates on the surface a...
Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
By RSIS The controversial Buddhist monk Wirathu, putative leader of the Buddhist fundamentalist 969 movement in Myanmar, has fuelled Buddhist-Muslim violence in the past year. Liberal responses to let the marketplace of ideas drown his extremist rhetoric are unlikely...
