Nov 21, 2012 | News / Article
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) — The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is in the midst of arranging a visit to Myanmar for discussion on ways to resolve the crisis faced by minority Rohingya Muslims. According to OIC, the visit will be led by...
Nov 21, 2012 | News / Article
Myanmar President Thein Sein has asked Indonesia to help his government in resolving ongoing ethnic tensions in the country’s western Rakhine state, where more than 110,000 people, the vast majority of them Muslims known as Rohingya, have been displaced. “Myanmar...
Nov 21, 2012 | News / Article
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ashok Nigam and Burma’s Minister for Border Affairs Lt-Gen. Thein Htay have announced that they will unveil a “Revised Rakhine Response Plan” to the media on Wednesday, November 21. In a joint statement on...
Nov 19, 2012 | News / Article
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Nov 19, 2012 | News / Article
The role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the affairs of the Rohingya minority in Burma must be one of humanitarian engagement and consistency, said Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, the General Secretary of ASEAN, in response to a question at the ASEAN...
Nov 19, 2012 | News / Article
President Obama will make history on Monday, becoming the first-ever U.S. president to visit Burma, a long-isolated Southeast Asian rogue state, called Myanmar by its rulers. The Obama administration has set rapprochement land speed records in its efforts to encourage...
