The regime is the last in the world still planting mines and the rebels improvise their own devices. Liane Wimhurst meets the people caught in the middle. (more…)

Irrawaddy Delta, Myanmar — A tattered UN tarpaulin makes a shady awning for one of the huts dotting the emerald rice paddies of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, a reminder of the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis three years ago. (more…)

Yangon – Myanmar’s new military-backed government is preparing to grant an amnesty to some prisoners, an official said Monday, but it was unclear whether they would include political dissidents. (more…)

Dhaka has rejected a proposed $US33 million UN project to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar where several hundred thousand Rohingya refugees have sought asylum. (more…)

Bangkok – Eight weeks after the nominally civilian government of President Thein Sein took power in Burma, there are indications that one of the world’s most repressive and poorest states might be finally heading towards reform. (more…)

Washington: Asserting the new “Thein Sein`s government is just a continuation of the military regime,” eleven pro-democracy Myanmarese groups have asked the junta to conduct dialogue with all stakeholders to revise the 2008 constitution. (more…)

New York (dpa) – The internet and its social networks have become not only a forum for the world’s free press and newly emerging democracy movements  but also a battleground for repressive governments fighting against them, the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report released Monday. (more…)

Money often clouds the minds of investors, preventing them from thinking about other issues, such as moral obligations and a sense of responsibility to the plight of fellow human beings. We have seen such an attitude all over the world – and mainland Southeast Asia is no different. (more…)

Burma’s new President Thein Sein gave an address at 1/2011-Meeting held at the President Office in Naypyitaw on 23 April. Thein Sein highlighted that without national unity, the country with more than 100 races cannot have peace and stability. So, the government has to prioritize the national unity, he said. (more…)

A new Myanmar government led by President Thein Sein was inaugurated early last month, ending 22 years of military rule. (more…)