Rangoon literally means “End of strife”, but these days there has been no shortage of trouble in the former British colonial capital.
The city suffered an almost simultaneous series of well-coordinated bomb attacks in early May. Several people were killed and many injured when bombs exploded within 10 minutes of each other in two supermarkets crowded with Saturday shoppers and at the convention center in west Rangoon, where a Thai trade fair was being held.
Washington: Southeast Asian nations are frustrated and embarassed by Myanmar’s deteriorating human rights record, Deputy US Secretary of State Robert Zoellick said on his return from a visit to the region.
Bukit Kayu Hitam: About 3,000 Myanmar nationals are hiding out in various parts of south Thailand as they wait to sneak into the country.
At a cost of RM250 a head, locals hired by a Myanmar syndicate based in Danok, also in south Thailand, would ferry the Myanmar nationals across the Malaysia-Thailand border through Perlis or Kedah.
Manila: Regional and international NGOs have accused the Thai government of giving excessive support to Burma’s military junta becoming the next ASEAN chairman.
Washington/Manila: Thailand’s foreign minister has hinted that Myanmar, under fire for its repressive domestic policies, could delay its turn to lead the ASEAN regional grouping to avoid confrontation with the West.
Berlin: German engineering firm Deutz is under investigation for allegedly breaking an embargo on supplying weapons to Myanmar, the prosecutor’s office in Cologne said on Friday.
Berlin: German engineering firm Deutz is under investigation for allegedly breaking an embargo on supplying weapons to Myanmar, the prosecutor’s office in Cologne said on Friday.
Berlin: German engineering firm Deutz is under investigation for allegedly breaking an embargo on supplying weapons to Myanmar, the prosecutor’s office in Cologne said on Friday.
May 12: Notwithstanding the denial by Burma’s military rulers, the number of patients affected by what doctors and experts point out as chemical gas, has increased in Nyga Mu Karenni camp.
May 12: Notwithstanding the denial by Burma’s military rulers, the number of patients affected by what doctors and experts point out as chemical gas, has increased in Nyga Mu Karenni camp.
Yangon: Myanmar has targeted to pocket 43 gold medals in the upcoming 23rd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games slated in Manila, the Philippines in November-December this year, an official of the Ministry of Sports said on Friday.
About 2,000 Burma Army troops have been dispatched to an area controlled by the Karen National Union, a KNU leader said Friday.
Mahn Sha, KNU general secretary, said the regime had sent Division 66 nearly one week ago to Taungoo Township of Pegu Division, southern Burma, controlled by the KNU’s Second Brigade.