Regional and global players are likely to become increasingly tired of the Burmese government’s mobster diplomacy.
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A British United Nations official investigating forced labour in Burma has left the country after receiving death threats in a campaign apparently inspired by hardline members of its ruling military junta.
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Nobel Peace laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have never met, never even exchanged letters.
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Thailand opposed Monday calls for the UN Security Council to take up Myanmar’s human rights abuses, saying pressuring the military junta would not lead to improvements.
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Looking to increase India’s share in the US$195.4 billion Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) market, comprising Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunan Province of China, industry chamber CII is taking the initiative to explore opportunities for domestic companies.
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The Thaksin government’s war on drugs has faded from front-page headlines even while officials are still working hard to stop the flow of heroin and methamphetamines from illegal labs along the borders with Burma and Laos.
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Exiled Burmese political groups denounced the sentencing of 8 Shan leaders including Shan National League for Democracy chairman Khun Htun Oo and Shan State National Council patron Gen Hso Ten to lengthy prison terms by Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
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Rumors of widespread burglaries have scared owners into downing their shutters early in Rangoon. More and more people are being affected because of this, according to the Free Information Group. Acute financial distress is said to be forcing many from the suburbs to resort to burglary.
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Workers used forklift trucks and blowtorches Monday to remove dozens of cement-filled yellow drums and other barriers that have been in front of the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar’s capital since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States.
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Myanmar government workers were working frantically Monday to comply with the reclusive military junta’s sudden order to relocate ministries to a secret compound in a mountainous region north of Yangon.
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Burma’s information minister on Monday confirmed that the country’s ministries were in the process of relocating from Rangoon to a new administrative center nearly 400 km north of the capital in Pyinmana, central Burma.
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