Former Burmese Exile Broadcaster DVB Goes Commercial
By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY
After more than two decades relying mainly on donors to fund its reporting and broadcasting, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a leading Burmese news outlet, has announced that it will turn to a commercial business model as donor funding dries up.
During an official announcement event at the Park Royal Hotel in Rangoon on Thursday, Khin Maung Win, deputy executive director of DVB, said “many challenges” would accompany the transformation.
“We might have many challenges ahead because we have been running our operations for 21 years with funding from donors, relying mainly on donors in the past. And we are not familiar with the process of how to run the organization commercially,” Khin Maung Win said.No Jobs at Home for Burmese Facing Expulsion From Thailand
By WILLIAM BOOT / THE IRRAWADDY
Desperate behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts by the government in Naypidaw to resolve the continuing migrant labour mess with Thailand “highlights the truly critical issue of the lack of employment opportunities in Burma,” a noted economist said.
Four-year work visas held by up to 100,000 Burmese migrant workers in Thailand have expired or are close to ending, and the Bangkok government has sent confused signals about the workers’ fate. Tens of thousands more visas will expire during 2014.
The visas were issued in administratively confused circumstances in 2009 and 2010, and Thai Ministry of Labour officials in Bangkok contacted by The Irrawaddy this week were unable to say exactly how many migrant workers were involved.Burma’s First Evening Private Daily on the Way
By KYAW HSU MON / THE IRRAWADDY
The Burmese-language newspaper, People Power, aims to hit the newsstands around 4 pm daily, as soon as it receives a license from the government’s press registration board, expected this week or next week.
“We have applied for a license, but we need to fulfill some requirements in the proposal,” managing editor Nyein Thu told The Irrawaddy on Thursday, saying the press registration board had given a green light to the newspaper but required some additional paperwork.
“That’s why the publishing date has been delayed—we originally planned to publish by the first week of October.”Is Burma’s Kachin maneuver anti-reform practice?
By Zin Linn
Burma/Myanmar government armed forces have been maneuvering strategic warfare against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) the armed wing of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) this time seems to be a crucial military operation of seizing more tactical positions around the challenger.
There are fresh reports from Kachin battle-frontline across the Internet as well as social media and the on-line newspapers constantly. Besides, people throughout the country including non-governmental organizations feel shock that this battle will cause more humanitarian disaster following 100,000 people fled their homes for safety shelter in remote forest during 28-month old war.NGO to Cut Rations for ‘Self-Reliant Refugees’ on Thai-Burma Border
By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY
RANGOON — Rice rations for many of the more than 120,000 Burmese refugees living on the Thai-Burma border will be reduced, due to a reduction in funding for a humanitarian organization that has provided food for them for more than two decades.
The Border Consortium (TBC) says its funding for humanitarian work has dropped as donors redirect their funds to programs preparing for the return of refugees to Burma.
“However, donors are continuing substantial funding to humanitarian aid and making sure refugees continue to receive a standard ration while making sure the most vulnerable receive extra and children see no reduction,” TBC spokesman Mike Bruce told The Irrawaddy on Friday.On Gandhi’s Birthday, India Offers Assistance to Transitioning Burma
By SAW YAN NAING / THE IRRAWADDY
Diplomats and scholars say neighboring India has much to offer Burma as it transitions away from authoritarian rule, with the world’s largest democracy also no stranger to the kind of ethnic conflicts that have for decades troubled the Southeast Asian nation.
At a ceremony marking Indian national hero Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday in Rangoon on Wednesday, Indian Ambassador to Burma Gautam Mukhopadhaya said the Indian Embassy was looking into ways that New Delhi might work together with the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC), a Burmese government-affiliated organization that is helping facilitate peace negotiations between the central government and the nation’s ethnic armed groups.
He said the Indian Embassy would also work closely with the government and civil society groups as Burma undergoes further democratic reforms and works toward national reconciliation.Press Releases
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In This Issue:
- Editorial: Rohingyas are in a geopolitical crossroad: Global Powers and Competing Interests
- Rohingya Resilience in Exile: Rebuilding Lives in Refugee Camps
- Containing Arakan Army: A Security Imperative for Myanmar and Bangladesh
- Ending Digital Violence against Women and Girls
- Myanmar’s Election: Conflict, Exclusion, and a Crisis of Legitimacy
- Rohingya Families in Maungdaw Prepare to Flee Amid Forced Conscription Fears
- Arakan Army Orders Rohingya to Surrender Household Registration Lists
- Fire Tears Through Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Injuring Three Children and Destroying Dozens of Shelters
- Rohingya Men and Women Forced to Join Armed Group in Maungdaw
- ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses
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Myanmar: Rohingya in Burma: Spotlight on Current Crisis Offers Opportunity for Progress
Source: Refugees International
Country: Myanmar
Despite an abundance of natural resources, Rakhine State is the second-poorest state in Burma. The simmering tension that exists between the Rakhine and stateless Rohingya communities has been stoked by poverty for decades. However, in June 2012 that tension boiled over. What began as inter-communal violence was followed by a wave of state-sponsored persecution of the Rohingya, along with a refusal to allow humanitarian agencies access to the northern part of the state, where the majority of Rohingya live. In October, Rohingya and other Muslim communities were attacked again, resulting in the destruction of thousands of houses, the displacement of tens of thousands of people, and an unknown number of deaths. In the state capital, Sittwe, tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya are now living in segregated, squalid camps outside of town and cut off from their livelihoods. The conflict has brought much-deserved international attention to the long-neglected situation of Burma’s Rohingya. The fact that it is taking place during a period of dramatic change in the country’s governance presents the world with a chance to finally put an end to discrimination against the Rohingya and restore their citizenship.
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