Aug 3, 2013 | News / Article
Author: Adam P MacDonald, Halifax Since assuming power in 2011, the pseudo-civilian government of President Sein has begun to fundamentally transform Myanmar’s foreign relations by re-engaging with the West. In 2012, as part of the government’s attempt to strengthen...
Aug 2, 2013 | News / Article
Shan Herald Agency The Burma Army is sending reinforcements into areas that link the Shan State Army (SSA) North with its ally the United Wa State Army (UWSA) on the eastern bank of the Salween, according to local sources. This is in spite of the fact that both the...
Aug 1, 2013 | News / Article
BBC – Timeline A chronology of key events 1057 – King Anawrahta founds the first unified Burmese state at Pagan and adopts Theravada Buddhism. 1287 – Mongols under Kublai Khan conquer Pagan. 1531 – Toungoo dynasty, with Portuguese help,...
Aug 1, 2013 | News / Article
BBC Monitoring Myanmar, also known as Burma, was long considered a pariah state, isolated from the rest of the world with an appalling human rights record. From 1962 to 2011, the country was ruled by a military junta that suppressed almost all dissent and wielded...
Aug 1, 2013 | News / Article
By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON—Former political prisoners who survived detention on Great Coco Island, a notorious penal colony off Burma’s mainland, have criticized the country’s reform efforts, saying the Burmese people have yet to see real change under a...
Aug 1, 2013 | News / Article
By Zin Linn Burma’s President Thein Sein received a British delegation led by Speaker of the House of Commons, UK Parliament Mr. John Bercow and party at the Credentials Hall of the Presidential Palace in Nay-Pyi-Taw on Tuesday, the state-run New Light of Myanmar...
