Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
“The committee members went to an IDP camp in Kyauktaw and will pay a two-day visit to Buthidaung and Maungdaw,” said a spokesperson for the Arakan state government.
Lead Story News Rangoon Religion
Two Muslim schools remain closed in Rangoon’s Thaketa Township as authorities say they are investigating the schools’ eligibility to hold prayer services.
Education Lead Story Natural Disasters News
When disasters destroy schools in Burma and elsewhere in the region, hundreds of thousands of children lose out, according to a new report by Save the Children.
Education Interview Lead Story News
Canadian Zen monk John D. Stevens speaks to DVB about a chance encounter in Burma 20 years ago that grew into a project to build schools around the country.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Refugees Shan
Shan rights groups have accusing the Burmese army of bombing schools, firing on civilians and raping women in the past two months.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video
Fresh fighting has broken out between government forces and rebel groups in Burma’s northern Kachin State. Many children have been unable to attend school.
Education Lead Story Migrants Issues News
As donor attention shifts away from border areas, schools for migrant children are putting plans in place in case of closure.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story News
Rising tension between government forces and the KIA over tax revenue from Hpakant jade mines has forced schools and businesses to close down.
Culture Karenni Lead Story News
The Karenni alphabet – kyal poe gyi or kayah li – was created in 1962, and has only ever been widely taught at refugee camps in Thailand. It appears to be modelled, linguists say, on Thai and Burmese scripts.
Twenty-five schools have reopened in Pegu Division after severe flooding caused 175 emergency closures since late July, according to the region’s chief educational administrator Saw San Yin. The education department[…]
The Consumer Protection Association of Myanmar [Burma] will lobby against the sale of imported snacks from China at schools, after tests show high levels of harmful chemicals.
The Japanese government has announced close to US$900,000 in funding for four schools across three regions in Burma. The grant will benefit almost 5,000 school students across Bhamo and Tenasserim[…]
Education will be free at middle schools across Burma starting from the next school term, says Myo Thein Gyi, director general of the Myanmar Education Research Bureau. Speaking at the[…]
For the first time in more than 40 years, students in Burma will soon be able to learn their ethnic languages in government-run schools
More than two dozen migrant schools in western Thailand face closure as international donors continue to slash funding for groups on the Thai-Burma border
Without the implementation of radical reforms, Burma’s schools will continue to stagnate
Ethnic languages are set to be included in state primary schools’ curriculum during the 2013-14 educational year; however, the classes will be held outside of normal school hours
The National League for Democracy donated more than 12.8 million Kyat to migrant schools on the Thai-Burma border with money it raised during a controversial fundraiser
Yin Aung lives in Laiza and likes going to school with his siblings. Recently he hasn’t been able to attend his classes because his school has been forced to close[…]
Nov 20, 2009 (DVB), Private schools and hospitals abolished under the former Ne Win regime in Burma are to reopen in an attempt to generate more revenue in the country[…]
Jun 13, 2008 (DVB), Local military officers in Bogalay township, Irrawaddy division, have been putting pressure on local schools to reopen despite the damage wrought by Cyclone Nargis, a township[…]
Jun 4, 2008 (DVB), As students returned to school following the cyclone that devastated parts of Rangoon and Irrawaddy, parents said they were being asked for school fees despite government[…]
July 10, 2007 (DVB)
Heavy rain in Kayah State has caused widespread flooding and left a path of devastation for residents. Yesterday dozens of wards in the in the capital of Kayah State, Loikaw, experienced widespread[…]
Locals from Kachin State say they are worried about their safety after a villager was injured by dynamite blasts in the Hpakant jade mines.
Three years since the jade trade was revealed to be worth 31 billion dollars, questions still abound about what improvements have been made by Aung San Suu Kyi’s government to share these revenues.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story News
The Kachin State government intends to begin the process of rescuing hundreds of civilians trapped in Injangyang Township by broader regional conflict, with the Burmese military blockading the road linking it to adjacent Myitkyina Township to the west.
The closure of the Islamic schools and subsequent imprisonment of Muslims involved in their operation has been described as “clear religious discrimination, and blatant violation of freedom of religion” by one human rights advocate.
Lead Story Natural Disasters News
One decade after an earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, China’s investment in disaster preparedness means a similar tragedy is unlikely, said experts who urged other Asian nations to follow suit.
Over 90 refugees from Burma on Monday returned home from Thailand as part of an official repatriation agreement between the Thai and Burmese governments.
