Oct 12, 2013 | News / Article
By Shivali Nayak Myanmar’s legal system is rapidly changing, but it still has a long way to go to reach international standards. That’s according to Dr Melissa Crouch, a researcher from the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Asian Legal...
Oct 12, 2013 | News / Article
By William Tucker Chief Correspondent for In Homeland Security 2011 marked the end of a 17 year cease-fire agreement between the Myanmar junta and the Kachin rebels of north Burma. In the two years since the cease fire broke down hundreds have been killed and tens of...
Oct 12, 2013 | News / Article
Myanmar Refugees Myanmar Labour Minister said he has reached an agreement with Malaysian authorities for the undocumented Myanmar workers in Malaysia to be allowed to return home without being charged. Mr. Aye Myint, Minister for Labour, Employment and Social...
Oct 11, 2013 | News / Article
Bangkok Post Myanmar on Thursday looked to build on a tentative peace deal with Kachin rebels, with talks aimed at ending the country’s last major active civil war. General Gwan Maw of the Kachin Independence Army speaks during a meeting with Myanmar government...
Oct 11, 2013 | News / Article
UN News Centre 9 October 2013 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today welcomed the latest release of political prisoners in Myanmar, while also voicing concern over ongoing arrests of activists and conditions attached to arrests. A presidential...
Oct 11, 2013 | Press Release (Others)
Despite hopes of a nationwide ceasefire agreement, the trust needed for lasting peace remains a long way off. BY THE Salween river in the city of Hpa-an, on a patch of ground the size of a football pitch, the foundations are being dug out for a posh new hotel. This...
Oct 11, 2013 | News / Article
BY Francis Wade The military has much to lose from democratic reforms and may be using the bloodshed as a way to reassert control. Myanmar’s president made his first trip to the violence-hit town of Thandwe last week, days after a 94-year-old Muslim woman was...
Oct 10, 2013 | News / Article
By Mark Inkey, Guest Contributor Burma was not one of the 115 countries to sign up to the UN Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) launched by William Hague at the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2013. Despite Burma’s refusal to sign the initiative the...
Oct 10, 2013 | News / Article
By Peter O’Neil, Vancouver Sun Canadian companies willing to take risks have potential to reap rewards, says trade minister In the mid-20th century a young Canadian traveller, touring Southeast Asia at a time when backpacking around the world was not only...
Oct 10, 2013 | News / Article
UN News Centre 8 October 2013 – Citing the negative impact of the inter-communal clashes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on children in the region, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today urged all parties to put an end to the violence. “In the name of Myanmar’s...
