Labour Issues Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Thousands of Muslim migrant workers from Burma risk being fined and deported from Thailand after June 30, under a new law that campaigners say may increase abuse and trafficking.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Bangladesh is in negotiations with Burma aimed at a deal to repatriate displaced Rohingya and Dhaka’s foreign minister will address the matter at talks in Burma this week, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry said on Sunday.
Burma’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited areas hit by conflict in the western state of Rakhine on Thursday for the first time since attacks by militants from the Rohingya Muslim minority two months ago sparked a refugee crisis.
“No peace here, no peace back in Myanmar,” said Sheel. “We should be taken to Hindustan, that’s our land.”
Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
Rising tensions with bordering Pakistan and a spike in separatist violence in neighbouring Kashmir, coupled with nationalist anti-Islamic sentiment globally, are threatening Rohingya Muslim refugees in India as demands grow for their eviction.
More than 100 foreigners died in the past two years in Malaysia’s immigration detention centres from various diseases and unknown causes, according to documents from the government-funded National Human Rights Commission.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Burma’s army-controlled Home Affairs Ministry is investigating a cover-up by the country’s border force of the deaths in custody of two Rohingya Muslims in troubled Arakan State.
Arakan Human Rights Lead Story News Rohingya
Burma is to investigate whether police have committed abuses against Rohingya Muslims, the government has said, after officials promised that allegations of atrocities against members of the Muslim minority would be looked into.
Arakan Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
Bangladesh has resurrected a plan to relocate thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Arakan State to a flooded island in the Bay of Bengal to prevent them from “intermingling” with Bangladeshi citizens.
Nay Myo Lin, a reporter for the BBC Burmese-language service, denounced his three-month prison sentence as unfair after he was found guilty of assaulting a police officer during protests last year.
The case highlights the limits of control that Suu Kyi’s government, elected in November on pledges of democratization, has over the government where the military plays an outsized political role.
The statement comes after criticism of a remark from a senior ABFSU member that appeared to deny the government credit for the move.
Dozens were freed from jails across Burma on Friday morning, with expectant crowds hopeful that political prisoners will join them as day goes on.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Two Burmese nationals were murdered in separate incidents in the Malaysian cities of Puchong and Butterworth this week. It is still unclear whether the killings are related to communal tensions.
Hundreds of villagers, students and monks on Wednesday ignored a government order to end a protest at a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine in northern Burma, activists said
The country’s famed opposition leader said Tuesday she would not oppose a suspension of US sanctions but urged caution, warning that her country could backtrack after dramatic reforms
Reform of Prisons Act proposal rejected as Home Minister claims ministry already drafting revision, no sign of promised parliamentary discussion on prisoner amnesty yet
Nearly 80 migrants still on the run after violence flares at the Lenggeng immigration centre where detainees regularly report poor conditions
Former Myanmar Times editor kept in Insein prison despite request by alleged assault victim to drop charges against Australian national
Former editor of the Myanmar Times rumoured to be facing assault charges but officials think he will likely be deported back to native Australia
Reports of transfer of property and funds to Thein Sein’s party follows disollution of pro-junta organisation, which may reform under a new name
