Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
Associated Press YANGON // Punk rockers draw double-takes as they dart through traffic, but it is not just the pink hair, leather jackets or skull tattoos that make these 20-somethings rebels. It is their willingness to speak out against Buddhist monks instigating...
Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
By C. S. Kuppuswamy Introduction In his address at the Chatham House, UK on 15 July 2013, President Thein Sein categorically asserted that the armed fighting in Myanmar since 1948 will end soon. “There are issues of autonomy and self determination of power sharing and...
Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
Author: Dan Joyner This just came to my attention today. Read this story at Pro Publica, about some very important and alarming work that friend of ACL, and real life former weapons inspector Robert Kelley, has done on what he has concluded is a clandestine nuclear...
Aug 7, 2013 | News / Article
Bangkok Post Yangon – Myanmar student rebels on Monday signed a ceasefire with the government, days before the 25th anniversary of the 1988 student-led uprising in the country. More than 40 members of the outlawed All Burma Students’ Democratic Front...
Aug 5, 2013 | News / Article
US Senator Mitch McConnell told Congress on August 1 that he has urged Myanmar to amend some clauses in its 2008 Constitution to promote national reconciliation and to guarantee civilian supremacy over the military. Senator McConnell also praised Myanmar for the...
Aug 4, 2013 | News / Article
Narinjara News Protesting against the Burmese government’s policy for providing housing facilities to suspected citizens has put many Arakanese community leaders under trial. Various courts in Arakan State of western Burma are listening the cases against the community...