![]() | | UN Aid Reaches Long-Isolated Kachin Town | International aid begins to reach 5,000 displaced civilians in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township, an area that was long cut off due to the local conflict. Read More | | |
| Army Officials Won’t Take Part in Meeting with UNFC | A Burmese government delegation will arrive in Thailand on Tuesday to meet with ethnic leaders, but it won’t be joined by any senior military officials. Read More | | |
| Burma’s Rights Violations Continue despite Reforms: UN Envoy | A UN rights envoy warns that human rights violations in Burma are continuing, despite the government’s ongoing reform process. Read More | | |
| Chelsea, Man City Win, Arsenal out of FA Cup | Chelsea, Manchester City and Wigan produced a flurry of goals to win their FA Cup ties. Arsenal lost at Blackburn and ended their cup run. Read More | | |
| Australia Questions Malaysia over Deportation | Australia calls on Malaysia to explain why it turned away an Australian senator on a fact-finding mission to investigate the Southeast Asian country’s electoral system. Read More | | |
| Global Investors Watch How Chips Fall in China’s Cashless Casino Bar | A new casino bar on China’s southern Hainan Island marks the Chinese government’s first tacit approval of a gaming concept outside of Macau. Read More | | |
| Youth Turning Their Backs on ‘Singapore Dream’ | A growing number of young Singaporeans are turning their backs on the material joys of the long-cherished “Singapore Dream” to do what they enjoy. Read More | | |
Eleven Media Applies for Daily Newspaper License | Eleven Media Group announced on Monday that it has applied to the Ministry of Information for a license to launch a daily newspaper in Burma per April 1. It said seven other companies have applied for a license to publish a daily. The Myanmar Times’ managing director, Australian businessman Ross Dunkley, said last month that [...] Read More | | | | |
32 Burmese Rescued off Sri Lankan Coast | A boat carrying 32 Burmese citizens was rescued by the Sri Lankan navy on Saturday after the group had been at sea for two months, AFP reports. According to Sri Lankan officials they were trying to reach Australia and had left Burma’s shores in a group of around 130 people in three boats. The fate [...] Read More | | | | |
EU to Consider Burmese Timber Trade Agreement | EU officials will visit Burma in March to inspect timber production and to discuss an agreement with the government and timber producers that would allow legal wood exports to the EU, Eleven Media reports. Barthar Cho, joint secretary of the Myanmar Forest Products and Timber Merchants Association, said Burma needs to put proper timber regulations [...] Read More | | | | |
Motorcycle Bomb Kills 3 in Southern Thailand | Suspected insurgents detonated a motorcycle bomb that killed three security volunteers on Sunday in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south, police said. An explosive device hidden in a motorcycle went off in the commercial district in the city of Pattani on Sunday morning, killing three civilian security volunteers who were on duty at a tower clock and wounding [...] Read More | | | | |
Police Seize 1.97 million Meth Tablets in North Thailand | Thai police have seized nearly 2 million methamphetamine pills from smugglers near the country’s northern border in one of this year’s largest drug busts. Police Col. Panudet Boonruang said Friday that authorities arrested three ethnic minority Hmong men after chasing two pickup trucks near the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Rai province on Thursday night. Police [...] Read More | | | | |
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