Members of Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) beat up a Burmese student without provocation at Prome, Pegu Division in central Burma on 30 August.
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Human rights education group yesterday accused Burmese government trying to lengthen the dictatorial system by adding seven steps ‘road map’ in “Human Rights” curriculum.
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A Burmese child trafficking gang was arrested in Mae Sot, district police said on Thursday.
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September 1: A combined team comprising members of the local intelligence unit and the Lashio Special Anti-Drug Squad, acting on information, searched the cars at a vehicle inspection point in Hsenwi Township, Lashio District on 25
July.
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Thailand is seeking World Bank assistance to fund the clearing of landmines in border provinces, which are still littered with the deadly remains of former conflicts.
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The Export-Import Bank of Thailand (Exim Bank) yesterday testified to a Senate committee that it had been forced by the government to grant loans to the controversial Shin Satellite broadband satellite system project in Burma.
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EU foreign ministers hope to agree a compromise Friday to allow a summit with key Asian partners to go ahead despite fierce differences over military-ruled Myanmar, diplomats said Thursday.
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There is universal consensus among academic researchers that the main underlying cause of the 1997 Asian financial crisis was the poor quality of the afflicted countries’ economic institutions. Yet seven years on, the overall institutional quality of the members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations – Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
Burma, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – has
deteriorated. This is a worrying development.
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The daunting task of the EU is to stand firm on its democratic principle and apply it evenly, even if this means an economic short-term disadvantage. Giving in to such incentive could amount to losing sight of a bigger picture, which could be translated into turning the back on promotion of democracy, rights of self-determination, universal human rights and equality.
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We protest the concocted information about Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) in a series of news items appeared in a Bangla Daily “Protom Alo” dated August 14,15,16,17 & 18 and Bangla weekly Magazine “Shaptahik 2000″ dated August 27, both published from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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This week on our Web site we feature correspondent Joan Bieder’s story from Burma, a country ruled by a military dictatorship since 1962. In Burma, they no longer bother with holding elections.
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