Jul 2, 2013 | News / Article
Posted by Jamie Pinnock on Monday, 1st July, 2013 Compassion, humility, and tranquillity: these are the images that we have typically come to associate with Buddhism in the West. It is a religion that preaches non-violence, and many in the Europe and America have...
Jul 2, 2013 | News / Article
Police in the Indian city of Nagpur are on high alert after a survey conducted by the city Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) found that at least a dozen international students from Burma have been missing since 2008, according to a report by The Times of India. The 12...
Jul 2, 2013 | News / Article
At least two civilians were killed by Burma’s government army in Kachin State last month, despite an agreement signed in late May to deescalate tensions between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a...
Jul 2, 2013 | News / Article
RANGOON — Government security forces have stabilized the situation in Thandwe after an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence destroyed four homes in the town in southern Arakan State on Sunday, a local official said. He added that one Muslim man was arrested for an alleged...
Jul 2, 2013 | News / Article
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — There was an elegant determination to her walk as Aung San Suu Kyi led an entourage of advisers and loyal followers of her National League for Democracy into a hotel ballroom on a steamy, rain-swept hillside overlooking this newly built capital....
Jul 1, 2013 | News / Article
Peter Popham on why Aun San Suu Kyi is silent on the murder of Muslims There is no concealing the disappointment felt by many of Aung San Suu Kyi’s supporters around the world in the face of her failure to denounce the attacks on Burmese Muslims by members of her own...
