Yangon: Myanmar and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will cooperate in implementing a country program action plan which covers a number of sectors, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Friday.
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As the monsoon draws to a close, both Thai and Shan sources predict that hostilities are imminent between the Shan State Army (SSA) South and the Burma Army.
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Social workers in Rangoon say that Burmese authorities drove out six people with HIV/AIDS on Thursday from a home they were taking refuge in for treatment in Thaketa Township.
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Commercial production of gas in Burma’s two blocks will start in mid 2010, Chairman and managing director of Gail India, Proshanto Banerjee said on Wednesday in New Delhi.
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August 17: Ten trucks laden with timber on Wednesday night crossed the Sino-Burmese border from the Burmese border town of Muse in northern Shan State and headed for Kyae Gaung in China, sources on the border told Mizzima.
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More than 30 traders are still being hunted by authorities in the area of Muse, on the Burma-China border, in connection with corruption and illegal trading.
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The case against prominent Thai social activist Sulak Sivaraksa, accused with other protestors six years ago of disrupting the building of a gas pipeline crossing part of Burma, has been dismissed by Thailand’s criminal court.
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It is a sad tale of people jailed and forgotten with little hope of returning to their homeland.
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August 17: The US official in charge of refugee affairs will travel to Malaysia, Bangladesh and Thailand next week to examine refugee issues, the State Department said Thursday.
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China is a growing power in world affairs. In Chinese policy circles, this is characterized as a “peaceful rise”-a benign and unthreatening process where China modernizes itself and takes its place alongside the leading nations of the world, but without subjugating others in the pursuit of imperial ambitions or causing conflicts or instability.
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