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Yuam River dam diverts more than just flow
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 07/04/2020
» Flowing freely along the Salween Basin, the Yuam River has been home to Karen villagers for many generations. From cradle to grave, they live off the land and the river, and for years they have been passing down the wisdom of their traditional ways to their descendants.
Film star Cate Blanchett backs drive to end plight of 10m stateless
Published on 08/10/2019
» LONDON: Film star Cate Blanchett called on Monday for the world to end the "devastating" plight of millions of people with no nationality -- including almost half a million in Thailand --amid warnings that rising xenophobia is stymieing efforts to meet a 2024 deadline for eradicating statelessness.
Bringing Rohingya home
News, Published on 28/04/2019
» The Rohingya crisis, a mass exodus of Muslims in Myanmar prompted by the government's bloody crackdown in 2017, has been a difficult issue for the international community to tackle.
The invisible workforce
News, Published on 23/12/2018
» This year saw the government achieve some success in its efforts to deal with illegal migrant workers, a problem often linked with forced labour and human trafficking.
How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
Trump decision on Jerusalem could have deep repercussions
Associated Press, Published on 06/12/2017
» JERUSALEM: President Donald Trump’s move to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday could have deep repercussions across the region.
Myanmar Buddhists seek tougher action on Rohingya
Associated Press, Published on 31/08/2017
» Several hundred Buddhist nationalists, including monks, rallied in Myanmar's largest city on Wednesday to urge stronger action against insurgents from the Muslim Rohingya minority for attacks on police last week.
18,000 Rohingya flee Myanmar violence into Bangladesh
Associated Press, Published on 30/08/2017
» COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- The International Organization for Migration said Wednesday that 18,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled fresh violence in Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh, with “hundreds and hundreds” stranded in no man's land at the countries' border.
One girl's plight epitomises Rohingya struggle
Published on 06/07/2017
» DAR PAING, MYANMAR (AP) - Ever since she was born in this squalid camp for displaced members of Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya minority, Rosmaida Bibi has struggled to do something most of the world's children do effortlessly: grow.
Myanmar 'in denial' over Rohingya crimes
Reuters, Published on 07/02/2017
» DHAKA/YANGON - Myanmar's government remains "in denial" about alleged atrocities by its military against minority Rohingya Muslims, officials present at a meeting in Bangladesh said, despite leader Aung San Suu Kyi's pledge to investigate the findings of a devastating UN report.