Yangon: Pausing to photograph Buddhist monks at Yangon’s glittering Shwedagon pagoda, Spaniard Carlos Iribas explains why he was drawn to military-ruled Myanmar, which has emerged as one of Asia’s fastest growing tourist destinations.
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International Monetary Fund officials met with Myanmar’s prime minister as part of an annual visit to assess the country’s economic situation, a diplomat and a state-controlled newspaper said Wednesday.
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Yangon: Prime Minister Lt-Gen Soe Win received members of International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB) and Asia Development Bank (ADB) led by Mr Shang Jin Wei of Research Department of IMF at Zeyathiri Beikman Hall on Konemyinttha at 3 pm today.
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The Communist Party of Burma (CPB), disintegrated in 1998 by the mutiny of its ethnic group members, has been rebounding and currently organizing a country-wide uprising plan called Demo-2006 against the State governing State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
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Dhaka: 36 Burmese nationals who have been under detention for more than six years without any sentences face the grim danger of being deported to Burma.
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Yangon: A Thai trade exhibition opened at the Yangon Trade Center here Wednesday with the aim of further strengthening the trade and cooperative ties between Thailand and Myanmar.
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Bangkok: The Thai labor ministry has decided to deport more than 9,300 pregnant alien workers and illegal immigrants, saying it would prevent the problem of stateless children from worsening.
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A ground-breaking settlement thought to be worth millions of dollars has been reached in the long-running human rights case brought by Burmese villagers against the energy giant Unocal, it emerged yesterday.
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December 14: Crunch time over Myanmar is coming ever closer for Asean, despite the reluctance of member states to bring the issue to a head at their recent summit.South-east Asian countries shy away from putting collective pressure on the military rulers of Myanmar to honour their promises of political reform because membership of the Asean club is premised on a common commitment not to intervene in one another’s internal affairs.
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December 14: Washington, DC: The United States Campaign for Burma today condemned Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for labeling the incarceration of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi “reasonable” and claiming her release could lead to the disintegration of
Burma.
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