Jul 14, 2012 | News / Article
2012-07-13The Southeast Asian body vows to monitor the plight of the ethnic group unwanted in Burma and Bangladesh.The head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) raised the issue of the Rohingyas with the top diplomats of Burma and Bangladesh on...
Jul 14, 2012 | News / Article
July 12, 2012By MOSHAHIDA SULTANA RITU Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh LAST spring, a flowering of democracy in Myanmar mesmerized the world. But now, three months after the democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi won a parliamentary seat, and a month after she...
Jul 14, 2012 | News / Article
Updated 10:25 a.m., Friday, July 13, 2012 SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Myanmar open to American investment Friday, introducing the reformist president to leaders of some of the U.S.’s biggest corporations and...
Jul 14, 2012 | News / Article
YANGON, Myanmar — The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday rejected a suggestion by Myanmar’s president that the world body resettle or take care of ethnic Rohingyas who have settled in the Southeast Asian country.UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres told...
Jul 14, 2012 | News / Article
Published: 12/07/2012 at 04:48 PM Myanmar’s president Thursday told the UN that refugee camps or deportation was the “solution” for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal unrest in the west of the country. Myanmar’s...
Jul 8, 2012 | News / Article
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID Sunday 8 July 2012 Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu called on the Myanmar government to order an immediate probe into the slaughtering of Rohingya Muslims as well as to bring those responsible to...