Derek Tonkin - networkmyanmar 11 December 2015 On 7 December 2015, two days before the formal opening of Myanmar’s new Stock Exchange in Yangon, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury revised their sanctions regulations to facilitate importations to ...

By Melissa Crouch - WA Today December 2, 2015 Western perceptions of Buddhism in Myanmar are still largely blinded by the shiny golden mirage of the pagodas, and the assumption that Buddhists must be peaceful, loving and good. -  The debate on asylum seekers ...

Ebba Lekvall - essexjusticeleague.blogspot Friday, November 27, 2015 This is a question I’ve seen a lot from different Burma activists in the past few years. And when the International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School recently released a report concluding that genocide might ...

Zairil Khir Johari - The Malaysian Insider 28 November 2015 As much as we have advanced, the world today continues to be wrought by humanitarian crises of great magnitudes. n Sudan, Syria and Sri Lanka today, millions of innocent people continue to suffer from ...

By Tun Khin - mizzima 21 November 2015 It’s becoming something of a pattern. Rohingya people standing on the side-lines, watching celebrations of events which make our lives worse. In 2011, at the same time as Thein Sein was being praised for launching his ...

The Jordan Times Nov 17,2015 -  Writing in the New York Times in the article titled “Myanmar generals set the state for their own exit”, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise the total fraud that is Burmese democracy. “The ...

By Dingding Chen - The Diplomat November 17, 2015 The landslide victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in last Sunday’s elections is a turning point in Myanmar’ s history. The NLD will have an opportunity to rule alone, ...

By Tun Khin - ibtimes November 10, 2015 15:01 GMT The citizenship of Rohingyas, who make up a third of the state's three million people, was revoked in 1982, making them stateless. The military-backed Myanmar government considers the persecuted Muslim minority as Bengali ...

David Hutt - The Islamic Monthly 10 - 11 - 2015 On November 8, the people of Burma went to the polls for the country’s first democratic election in decades. It was a two-horse race between the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, the ...