A look at the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority group from Myanmar who are at the center of a controversy over Thailand’s treatment of migrant workers: (more…)

The UN refugee agency said Thursday it had visited 12 teenage migrants from Myanmar after Thai authorities finally granted access to some of the Rohingya boat people washing up on its shores. (more…)

Experts of the European Union (EU) will examine Myanmar’s marine products to help improve quality of export products for the European market, the local Yangon Times quoted the Myanmar Fisheries Products Producers and Exporters Association as reporting Thursday. (more…)

HIV/AIDS patients being treated in Rangoon have alleged that the Health Department has restricted their stay in the former capital Rangoon. (more…)

Sobbing in an Indonesian hospital, a Rohingya migrant from Myanmar said Thursday he faced certain death if forced home, piling more pressure on countries in the region to treat the Muslim minority as refugees. (more…)

The bearded farmer wept in his hospital bed as he recounted a harrowing six-month journey that brought him from the isolated country of Myanmar to this remote island in the Indian Ocean. (more…)

The seventh visit of the United Nations Secretary General’s advisor Ibrahim Gambari, which tentatively is scheduled for Rangoon this Saturday, is yet another attempt to resolve the political crisis in Burma. This is a standing invitation Gambari received from the military junta, although given the junta’s past intractability, little is expected from the visit. (more…)

The ill treatment of Rohingya refugees at the hands of the Thai authorities is horrific and lamentable, but not surprising. I appreciate the action of Prime Minister Abhisit in investigating the situation, but it is time that Thailand and other Asian nations looked at their treatment of migrants. There is a necessity to investigate the overarching blindness and inhumanity of regional politicians towards the people of Burma. It’s not just Thailand. This past week came news about Malaysian involvement in the trafficking of migrants from Burma. (more…)

Reporters Without Borders urges the international community not to forget Nay Phone Latt (http://www.nayphonelatt.net/), a Burmese blogger who was arrested exactly one year ago today and was sentenced on 10 November to 20 years and six months in prison, or Zarganar, one of Burma’s best known comedians, who is serving a 59-year jail sentence in appalling conditions for criticising the military government online. (more…)

The United Nations has warned of acute food shortages in parts of Burma, despite a better than expected rice harvest over the past year. (more…)

Detained pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer said he was summoned to the attorney-general’s office in Burma’s new jungle capital, Naypyitaw, for a discussion on his client’s appeal against house arrest. (more…)

More than 200 National League for Democracy youth members attended a talk on the Burmese legal system led by Thein Nyunt of the central legal advocacy wing at the party headquarters yesterday. (more…)

District level authorities from the Karen National Union (KNU) have ordered Htay Company, owned by Major General Hla Htay Win, to halt logging in the Makate Forest near Three Pagodas Pass. The halt order overrules local officials and military officers, who had permitted Htay Company to harvest over 2,500 tons of ironwood. (more…)

Tensions between the Burmese military and the United Wa State Army (UWSA) have been mounting since a 30-member Burmese delegation led by Lt-Gen Ye Myint, the chief of Military Affairs Security, was forced to disarm during a visit to Wa-held territory in Shan State on January 19, according to sources in the area. (more…)

Danish Development Minister Ulla Toraes was in Burma last week-the highest ranking member of the European Union to visit military-ruled Burma in two decades. (more…)

Up to 100,000 Christian Chin who have fled to India in the past 20 years to escape persecution by Myanmar’s Buddhist military rulers are at risk of being forced back, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. (more…)

Rohingya caught in Thai waters are illegal economic migrants, not refugees, and will never be let into the country, Thailand said on Wednesday as controversy over its handling of the boat people refused to die down. (more…)

A Thai court on Wednesday convicted 66 barefoot, disheveled migrants detained at sea of illegally entering the country, raising the prospect they could be sent back to Myanmar despite fears they would be persecuted there. (more…)

Like most other sectors that earn Burma hard currency, the mining sector is likely to crash given the slow down in China, which has dramatically brought down mineral and metal prices. (more…)

A three-day strategic conference in Dublin, Ireland, held by the National Coalition Government for the Union of Burma and representatives from Burmese democracy organisations overseas ended on Monday. (more…)