17 May 2012, 1:36 pm
Naw Zipporah Sein, the Karen National Union’s general secretary welcomed a statement from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi calling for more development in ethnic areas.Zipporah-and-Daw-SuuNoble peace prize Laurent, Aung San Suu Kyi, asked for foreign investors and international development aid providers to co... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:36 pm
Three groups representing Burma’s journalists say that they will submit a letter to the country’s Ministry of Information objecting to rules relating to a proposed Press Council that will be formed after the current censorship board is abolished.The three groups—the Myanmar Journalists Associa... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:34 pm
Ethnic rebels in the far north of Myanmar have urged the United Nations to send observers to monitor fighting with government troops, a Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) official said on Thursday.In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, emailed to AFP, the KIO “implored” observers t... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:33 pm
Nearly 150 Burmese migrant workers, who for up to two years had been locked inside a shrimp factory in Mahachai near Bangkok, were rescued on Tuesday by Thai police and social organizations.Kyaw Thaung, a spokesperson for the Burmese Association in Thailand (BAT), told The Irrawaddy that his organiz... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:33 pm
Dawei, Myanmar – A simple, red sign on a white beach marks the start of a billion-dollar highway that will, one day, lead to a vast industrial project to be built close to impoverished Myanmar’s border with Thailand.But with years to go before it is up and running, the $50 billion port a... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:32 pm
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay offered her encouragement to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in drafting a regional human rights declaration, and called for a meaningful consultation on the draft with the widest spectrum of people in the region before... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:32 pm
On May 14, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak visited Myanmar, partly with the aim of using the formerly isolated country as an example to North Korea of how it might benefit from improved relations with Seoul and the international community. This week, in what some are calling a watershed event, ... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:31 pm
United Nations – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called for an end to attacks by all parties in Myanmar on Thursday after receiving a letter from a rebel independence group in the country’s Kachin State asking the United Nations to help end its conflict with the government.Ban’s spokesman M... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:30 pm
Washington — The Obama administration announced on Thursday that it will ease the ban on investments in Myanmar, rewarding the country’s political and economic opening over the last year. The move would allow the first significant American trade with Myanmar in decades, a step that worries human... Read More »
17 May 2012, 1:30 pm
Military-dominated Myanmar’s international rehabilitation gets another boost when its foreign minister meets Thursday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and looks for progress in U.S. plans to ease economic sanctions.Myanmar’s political reforms over the past year or so have s... Read More »
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