Five Burmese migrant workers accused by Thai police of theft during last year’s devastating tsunami were acquitted yesterday, after being detained for more than ten months.
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Bangkok: A possible free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and Southeast Asia along with the governments’ recent moves to liberalize their economies could lead to a boost in sadly lagging E.U. investments in the region, an E.U. official said Friday.
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Yangon: Myanmar is indisputably the economic basket case of Southeast Asia. Despite claims by the military government that Myanmar’s economy grew by 12.6 per cent in 2004, the Asian Development Bank says it cannot give any estimate for GDP growth because of incomplete and unreliable data.
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Unregistered Burmese migrant workers are forced to pay up to 700 Baht a month to thugs so they can stay and work in Thailand, says a Mon migrant worker in Bangkok.
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The Shan group that professes to be the interim government of Burma’s Shan State has lambasted the Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) for its report, “Shan FM faces the sack,” 1 November 2005, as “groundless slanderous rumor-mongering and character assassination”.
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The implications of the junta’s Pyinmana move and its effect on political life in Rangoon
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The National League for Democracy maintains the National Convention will be ineffective and the party had no interest in attending spokesperson Nyan Win said.
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Burma’s ethnic ceasefire groups will continue their participation in the junta-sponsored National Convention, set to resume early next month, according to ethnic minority leaders.
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