updated Fri. April 19, 2024
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Herts Advertiser
April 1, 2018
At the meeting, Mr Field made a short speech then took questions from MPs and peers and spoke about the government's commitment to finding a diplomatic solution for the Rohyinga, who were stripped of citizenship by Myanmar's former military government in 1982, when the county was still called Burma.
Channel NewsAsia
March 31, 2018
Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate who championed Myanmar's emergence from military government rule by sweeping 2015 elections, is constitutionally barred from the presidency because she was married to a foreigner. To circumvent that snag, her party created a new position for her called state counsellorÃâà...
New York Times
March 31, 2018
Before Thailand's military government enacted a tough law on migrant workers last June, the country had as many as three million unregistered migrant workers, many from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The new rules, which carried prison terms of up to five years for working without legalÃâà...
The News Lens International
March 30, 2018
In the 1970s, an anti-insurgency campaign of Myanmar's then military government in Rakhine state saw widespread violations of human rights and brutal acts against the Muslim-minority Rohingya. Nearly 300,000 Rohingya were forced to cross the border at that time. During 1991–92, a second wave ofÃâà...
The Independent
March 29, 2018
Win Myint, 66, replaces another Ms Suu Kyi loyalist, Htin Kyaw, who retired last week due to ill health. Mr Win Myint is a long-serving member of her National League for Democracy – an affiliation that led to his becoming a political prisoner under the previous military government. Myanmar's army ruled theÃâà...
Frontier Myanmar
March 29, 2018
Myanmar's present trade regime – and the way it has been applied and enforced by various agencies, notably Customs – is clearly holding the country back. The main beneficiaries are the officials who can use the system's complexity and opaqueness to extract payments, and the agents who know how toÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 26, 2018
U Win Myint has enjoyed electoral success three times: in the 1990 general election, a 2012 by-election and in the last general election in 2015. But the successes didn't come easily. Like many other political activists and politicians, U Win Myint was arrested several times by the previous military regime.
The Bellingham Herald
March 26, 2018
U.S. lawmakers of both parties say that's a worrying gap in the U.S. sanctions regime. A recent United Nations report cites Myanmar's "ongoing" arms relationship with North Korea — underscoring long-standing suspicions Myanmar has failed to sever those military ties as it has transitioned to democracy.
The Business Times
March 26, 2018
The current government has resumed the practice of the previously military government of encouraging 'tycoons' to donate to government funds for causes ... up the business landscape, replacing the 1914 Burma Companies Act and allowing foreign companies to buy up to a 35 per cent stake in MyanmarÃâà...
WILX-TV
March 26, 2018
Myanmar skirts 'maximum pressure' despite North Korea ties ... WASHINGTON (AP) -- Myanmar is suspected of acquiring ballistic missile systems from North Korea but has escaped the full force of the Trump administration's "maximum ... U.S. lawmakers say that's a gap in the U.S. sanctions regime.
Asahi Shimbun
March 26, 2018
U.S. lawmakers of both parties say that's a worrying gap in the U.S. sanctions regime. A recent United Nations report cites Myanmar's ... "I want Burma to succeed," Republican Senator Cory Gardner told The Associated Press, using the alternative name for Myanmar. "I want its civilian leadership to succeed.
The Guardian
March 25, 2018
Australia has told Myanmar that international observers must be allowed into the isolated Rakhine state to monitor the situation of Rohingya still living there, and to supervise the return of any of those who have fled and wish to come back. In its strongest statement yet against the quasi-military regime,Ãâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 23, 2018
An ordinary person might not think that Ethiopia and Myanmar have anything in common, but an analysis of their latest leadership changes shows that these two Chinese Silk Road partners actually share five structural vulnerabilities with one another, and identifying these points of pressure could revealÃâà...
Myanmar Times
March 13, 2018
The regime is possibly stronger than ever and is on the verge of having a viable nuclear weapon. That grip on power has come at significant cost to the nation. Basic human rights such as the freedom of speech, of travel and of religion are suppressed and the health of the economy is subjected to the needsÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 13, 2018
The regime responded to the demands with more brutality. On March 16, riot police cracked down violently on hundreds of students marching along the southern flank of Inya Lake, near the White Bridge bus stop, named after a small bridge spanning a culvert. A number of students — it is still unclear howÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 13, 2018
In the past, he was involved with Myanmar's student protests, and fought against the military regime with a rebel group in the early 1990s. In 2012, he found himself sitting at the same table with his former enemies, negotiating a peace deal between the military and rebel groups who had been fighting forÃâà...
La Croix International
February 20, 2018
Myanmar is stepping up its offensive against Rohingya Muslims, thousands of whom have fled overseas from what they claim is persecution at the hands of the military, which says the group does not officially exist within its borders. The Buddhist-majority country refuses to recognize the term, seeing theÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 15, 2018
BANGKOK – When five Myanmar journalists were sentenced to decade-long prison terms for reporting the alleged existence of a military-run chemical weapons factory in Myanmar a few years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi — then an opposition lawmaker — condemned the harsh punishments as “very excessive.
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
December 31, 1999
But when we took to the streets to topple the authoritarian regime during the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, young female students in my classrooms joined the movement along with women from every sector. Win Maw Oo was just one example of how bravely women and girls took to the forefront of theÃâà...
Washington Examiner
December 31, 1999
Foreign governments must place more political and diplomatic pressure on Myanmar. The U.S. must restrict travel and banking affairs for known actors involved in crimes against humanity. Steady pressure on the Myanmar regime must include calls for returning citizenship to the Rohingya, who have ties toÃâà...
Frontier Myanmar
December 31, 1999
THE Myanmar Investment Commission has recently undergone a major transformation because of changes arising from the Myanmar Investment Law 2016 (MIL) and the Myanmar Investment Rules 2017 (MIR). It is important for both Myanmar and foreign investors to understand the impact of theseÃâà...
