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News of Myanmar
UN expert calls on Myanmar to address impunity for crimes in Rakhine
While welcoming the most recent efforts of Myanmar's Government to look into the sectarian violence that erupted last year in Rakhine state, a United Nations expert today stressed that much more needs to be done to end discrimination and hold perpetrators accountable for their crimes. The Special (...)

01 - 05 - 2013
UNICEF gives assistance Rohingya children, women in southern Thailand
BANGKOK: UNICEF began this week delivering footballs and other play and recreation supplies to eight Ministry of Social Development and Human Security shelters caring for Rohingya children in southern Thailand. Some 270 Rohingya children, many who were separated from their parents or who came to (...)

26 - 02 - 2013
World Bank Promises Aid To Burma
The World Bank has approved an $80m (£50m) grant and pledged lending for Burma, the second poorest country in Asia, for the first time in 25 years. The money will go to rural communities to build roads, bridges, schools and health clinics, the World Bank said. It comes after the current government (...)

02 - 11 - 2012
Thailand aims to curb drugs, human trafficking
BANGKOK: Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has called on the country's police to increase their crackdown on illicit narcotics and human trafficking. The Thai News Agency reported that the prime minister also announced that in the tenure of her government, police are not allowed to buy (...)

04 - 10 - 2012
Myanmar jails 8 Thai citizens for arms possession
BANGKOK: A Myanmar court sentenced 8 Thailand citizens to 10 years in jail for arms possession on Friday, raising the previous sentence of 7 years. The Thai foreign ministry told Bikyamasr.com on Saturday that it was “looking into the situation and was working with the Myanmar government to (...)

25 - 08 - 2012
Humanitarian needs growing for thousands of displaced persons in Myanmar
A United Nations senior official on Thursday warned that the humanitarian needs faced by over half a million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar are rapidly growing, and called on the Government to give access to aid agencies to provide assistance in all areas of the country. “This is a (...)

10 - 08 - 2012
Animals Video: Baby elephant captured, then tortured
This is a horrific and graphic video of the capture and subsequent torture of a baby elephant in Southeast Asia. Though elephant hunting is illegal in Thailand, it is widely practiced in neighboring Myanmar, and an active smuggling has been documented as poor Burmese capture, break and sell the (...)

27 - 07 - 2012
Safety fears restrict relief work after Myanmar riots
SITTWE - Armed troops patrolled the northwest Myanmar city of Sittwe on Friday after days of sectarian violence that has stoked nationalist fervor and displaced 30,000 people, with many feared dead. Heavy rain kept many residents indoors in the Rakhine state capital and police and aid groups (...)

15 - 06 - 2012
Myanmar signs Oil & Gas Exploration Contract
Myanmar's state oil and gas company has signed an exploration contract with a Chinese-Myanmar joint venture. The state-run Kyemon newspaper reported Sunday that the contract between Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise and Myanmar private company Aye Myint Khine Co. Ltd. working with China's EPI Holdings (...)

11 - 03 - 2012
Haze crisis worsens in northern Thailand
Bangkok (dpa) – A thick haze of smoke from burning farmland has worsened in northern Thailand, as authorities distributed hundreds of thousands of face masks and advised residents to say indoors, reports said Saturday. Health officials in Chiang Rai province, 765 kilometers north of Bangkok, (...)

03 - 03 - 2012
Northern Thailand chokes on smoke from farmland clearing
Bangkok (dpa) – Thick smog caused by farmers clearing land with fire was creating serious health problems in northern Thailand, disrupting transportation and threatening to cripple the region's tourism industry, medical officials and news reports said Friday. Chaicharn Photilak of Chiang Mai (...)

02 - 03 - 2012
Fire razes 500 huts in Karen refugee camp on Thai-Myanmar border
Bangkok (dpa) – A fire destroyed more than 500 bamboo huts in a Karen refugee camp in Thailand near the border with Myanmar but no one died, Karen sources said Friday. The fire in Umpiem Refugee Camp in Phop Phra district of Tak, 300 kilometers north-west of Bangkok, started about midday (...)

24 - 02 - 2012
Dutchman shines spotlight on Thailand's baby elephant trade
Bangkok (dpa) – The discovery of 6 slaughtered elephants last month in two of Thailand's national parks has exposed a nasty secret about the country's ubiquitous elephant tourism industry. Dutch national Edwin Wiek, founder of the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, jumped on the wild (...)

23 - 02 - 2012
Myanmar's HIV patients to miss out on new foreign aid
Bangkok (dpa) – HIV patients in Myanmar are unlikely to benefit from the increased foreign aid expected to flow the country as a reward for recent reforms, the medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Wednesday. “There are all kinds of indications that more money will be coming into (...)

22 - 02 - 2012
Thai pact aims to end conflicts between elephants, humans
Bangkok (dpa) – Thai government agencies, conservationists and farmers reached an agreement aimed at reducing conflicts between humans and wild elephants, news reports said Wednesday. The deal followed several recent cases in which elephants have been shot or electrocuted when they strayed from (...)

18 - 01 - 2012
Myanmar, UN devise disaster mitigation plans
A senior United Nations official arrived in Myanmar on Wednesday to help the Government devise measures to reduce the impact of natural disasters through early warning systems and other steps in a country where an estimated 140,000 people were killed and 2.4 million others affected by Cyclone (...)

13 - 10 - 2011
Myanmar: Ban underlines need to release all remaining political prisoners
Releasing all remaining political prisoners is the single most important step that authorities in Myanmar can take, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, expressing hope that the Government of the Asian nation will soon take steps towards greater democracy. Ban spoke by telephone earlier (...)

01 - 08 - 2011
Amnesty: Political prisoners in Myanmar must be freed
On the third anniversary of the violent crackdown on the “Saffron Revolution”, Amnesty International has called on the Myanmar government to immediately and unconditionally free all political prisoners arrested for their peaceful activism. The Myanmar authorities continue to imprison over 2,200 (...)

28 - 09 - 2010
Boat with 150 Muslims capsizes off Myanmar, unknown number of missing
A boat carrying up to 150 Rohingya Muslims fleeing a cyclone has capsized off Myanmar's coast, the UN said Tuesday. The boat went missing on Monday night after it left Pauktaw town ship, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said, adding there were an unknown (...)

14 - 05 - 2013
Dalai Lama speaks out on Myanmar violence
BANGKOK: The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday spoke out against the Buddhist attacks against Muslims in Myanmar, arguing that killing in the name of faith is "unthinkable." It comes on the heels of a wave of sectarian violence erupted in March in the central Myanmar town of (...)

08 - 05 - 2013
Myanmar should deploy more troops in volatile state: Commission
Myanmar must urgently address the plight of Muslims displaced by sectarian bloodshed in western Rakhine State and double the number of security forces to control the still-volatile region, an independent commission said on Monday. Its long-awaited report recommended a mixed bag of humanitarian and (...)

29 - 04 - 2013
Impact of war on language (197) Amusing ‘Prosthetics Stories' (v)
The Huffington Post, an American news website, content aggregator and blog, carried the following story as ‘weird news' on November 11, 2012: “A 50-year-old elephant in Thailand who lost her left front leg a few years ago is now kicking it up with a new prosthetic. “The elephant, named Motala, (...)

26 - 02 - 2013
Qatar Red Crescent erects 60 compounds in Myanmar
BANGKOK: The Qatari Red Crescent (QRC) announced the construction of 60 residential compounds with total 480 units to accommodate 480 families (approximately 3,000 persons) in Rakhine Province of Myanmar, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. The project, which was done by the QRC's field office in (...)

26 - 02 - 2013
UN General Assembly voices concern for Myanmar's Muslims
The U.N. General Assembly expressed serious concern on Monday over violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar and called upon its government to address reports of human rights abuses by some authorities. The 193-nation General Assembly approved by consensus a non-binding resolution, (...)

25 - 12 - 2012
UN General Assembly voices concern for Myanmar's Muslims
Calling upon Myanmar's government to address reports of human rights abuses by some authorities, the U.N. General Assembly expressed serious concern over violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists The U.N. General Assembly expressed serious concern on Monday over violence between Rohingya (...)

25 - 12 - 2012
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