The self-styled national politician Win Naing has called on Burma’s Buddhist monks to use their status to advise military leader senior general Than Shwe against corruption and unfair taxation.
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Burma’s Supreme Court will hear the appeal of jailed lawyer Aye Myint on July 22, his legal representative has said, the first time the case will have been subject to a formal review.
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Up to half of all child laborers in Thailand are Burmese and many are forced into work by their parents, studies have revealed.
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July 2006: Will ignorance, incompetence and international indifference allow a treatable disease to decimate a Burmese generation and engulf eastern Asia?
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Bangkok: In a small village in the north of Thailand, about an hour’s drive outside Chiang Mai, the farmers are happily surprised at what happened with the garlic they cultivated in the dry season, from November to April.
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Yangon: The Nanyang Institute and Management (NIM) of Singapore will conduct its first training course for diploma of tourism and hospitality management in Myanmar, the local Voice journal reported in this week’s issue.
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July 5: Tokyo: Japan’s refusal to join the West in slapping sanctions against the Burmese military junta, responsible for gross human rights violations, has disappointed activists and development experts who say Tokyo’s continued foot-dragging on Burma is wrong.
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July 2006: The arrival of a new director of the Voice of America’s Burmese Service radio and his attempts to rejuvenate the staff and brighten up programming have done little so far to quell unhappiness at the Washington-based station.
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