![]() | | Use of Phosphorus in Protest Raid Outrages Activist, Victims | Tests find that grenades with phosphorus were used in the crackdown on protesters who opposed a copper mine, sparking outrage among activists and victims. Read More | | |
| State Media Apologizes for Misusing Photo | Burma’s state media issues an apology after it was discovered to have mislabeled a photograph alleging to show the aftermath of a KIA landmine blast. Read More | | |
| Displaced Kachin Struggle without UN Aid | Hundreds of families who fled the Kachin conflict have settled in camps along the Jeyang River. The Irrawaddy’s photographer Steve Tickner documented their plight. Read More | | |
| We’re Only Half-Way There, KNU Says on Resistance Day | The Karen National Union marks the 64th anniversary of its struggle for greater autonomy with vows to continue fighting until its reaches its ultimate goal. Read More | | |
| Vietnam Deports American It Detained for 9 Months | An American pro-democracy activist is released and deported from Vietnam, while Vietnamese activists from the same US-based dissident group continue to serve long sentences. Read More | | |
| Korea, Thailand Warn Over Fallout from Easy Money, Currencies | Aggressive quantitative easing in Japan and other developed economies raises fears in other countries worried about the impact on their own recoveries. Read More | | |
| Soccer-FIFPro Blasts Indonesia FA for Continued Mismanagement | World players’ union FIFPro urges Indonesian soccer authorities to resolve their differences after another case of an unpaid player being hospitalized comes to light. Read More | | |
Japan Cancels $3.58 billion of Burma’s Debt | Japan officially cancelled US $3.58 billion in debt to support “democratization, national reconciliation, and economic reforms” in Burma, a Japanese Embassy statement said on Wednesday. On Sunday, it was announced that Japan would slash the debt and also provide a bridge loan totaling $900 million to cover Burma’s arrears to the Asian Development Bank and [...] Read More | | | | |
Thailand Pushes Rohingya’s Back into Ocean | Thai authorities have turned away a group of 200 Rohyingya refugees who were found drifting off the coast of Thailand, AFP reports. A Thai navy official said the group was found some 40 kilometers from the coast and were pushed back into the open ocean. “We took them food and water before pushing them towards [...] Read More | | | | |
Burma Govt Newspaper Seek Business Partners | Burma’s government-owned English-language newspaper The New Light of Myanmar is seeking a business partner to help it transform into a more independent media organization, AFP reports. “We have agreed with the (information) ministry to invite interested persons for the tender of running the New Light of Myanmar English version,” a member of the Public Service [...] Read More | | | | |
Thai Politician Arrested after 8 years in Hiding | Thai police have arrested a fugitive politician who disappeared eight years ago after being convicted of hiring a gunman to kill a rival. Police Lt. Gen. Pongpat Chayaphan said Wednesday that 75-year-old Somchai Khunpleum was arrested in a car while traveling out of Bangkok to his hometown of Chonburi in eastern Thailand. Somchai is the [...] Read More | | | | |
China says 14 guilty of pollution protest violence | Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in eastern China last year where scores of police were hurt and the local Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in a mass protest that ultimately forced the scrapping of a wastewater treatment project. The official Xinhua News Agency said the defendants were prosecuted Wednesday on charges [...] Read More | | | | |
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