Lead Story Mandalay Division News Society
City official acknowledges there has been a marked increase in the number of children begging at junctions and traffic lights around central Mandalay, and said it was down to “economic problems”.
Crackdown expected on beggars as authorities prepare to clean up image of Burma’s second city prior to influx of tourists
Analysis Lead Story News Women's Issues
The Home Affairs Ministry has been blasted for re-enforcing harmful assumptions about gender-based violence after it released a document positing that women consuming alcohol was among the leading causes of the rape of women and children.
Every year, thousands of people pour into a small village southwest of Mandalay for a two-week festival honouring Ko Gyi Kyaw, one of Burma’s best-loved 37 “Nat” spirits
Arakan Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
Hundreds of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Burma have returned home, community leaders said Sunday, adding that most had gone back temporarily to fetch relatives.
An untold number of disabled veterans live in army-built communities, struggling to support their families on government allowances.
In Rangoon, the high cost of living has forced more and more people onto the streets to beg – and increasingly many of them are elderly.
Activists from across Southeast Asia have been harassed and intimidated by Cambodian authorities, in what has been described as an effort to silence civil society voices ahead of this weekend’s ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh
Three dams in the pipeline as Burmese tycoons and Chinese companies look set to dominate the lucrative hydropower sector
Arakanese monk arrested in August at his monastery-cum-orphanage is given an eight-year sentence on obscenity and political activism charges
Amnesty International says that the 2,150 political prisoners in Burma are at the heart of the political impasse and must be released
Monk who bought 120 children from human traffickers and sheltered them at his Arakan state monastery is arrested on a raft of charges
Violence flares in the Ajil detention centre as some 200 Vietnamese and Burmese detainees attempt to set the administration office on fire
Six trafficked Burmese children held in a Malaysian immigration camp are set to remain there as the Burmese embassy denies them financial help to return home
Trafficked Burmese children as young as 10 kept in detention camp for nine months as Burmese embassy and UNHCR “play volleyball” with their futures
The scourge of Burma’s human trafficking crisis reaches across Southeast Asia, with senior government figures now known to be complicit in a multibillion-dollar industry
Apr 2, 2009 (DVB), Locals in a Chinese border town have said there could be a link between a young Burmese boy found murdered on Monday and increased incidences of[…]
Aug 5, 2008 (DVB), Monks who accepted a meal from the National League for Democracy during last month's Martyrs' Day celebration despite warnings from the authorities' have come under pressure[…]
May 21, 2008 (DVB), A joint rescue team comprised of people from Maha Gandaryon monastery and the Free Funeral Service and celebrities went to Kyaik Lat and Maaupin townships in[…]
