A Burmese family asked Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division (CSD) on Tuesday to probe the death of its youngest child at her employer’s house in Ratchaburi province as they have doubts about local police’s suicide report.
The number of recorded suicides and attempted suicides has soared at Thailand’s largest camp for refugees from Burma, the International Organization for Migration said on Monday as it called for urgent action to treat high levels of distress.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
A Burmese domestic worker who jumped to her death from a 19-storey building in Singapore this week will be cremated in the Southeast Asian city-state, with her father and uncle preparing to travel there for the ceremony.
Human Interest Lead Story News
The 21-year-old was accused by a local woman of grabbing her hand and saying inappropriate things to her.
Dec 25, 2008 (DVB)-A political prisoner named Maung San committed suicide at Bago jail on 19 December, a source close to the prison said. Maung San, a youth member of[…]
Many refugees across Southeast Asia have no access to citizenship and few rights in the country where they live.
Karen Lead Story News Refugees
The concerns of ethnic Karen refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) were raised on Tuesday, World Refugee Day, over the lack of a clear plan for the return and reintegration of those going back to their homelands.
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.
Malaysian police said on Tuesday they have arrested seven people, including four foreigners, for suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) militant group and for planning attacks in Malaysia and abroad.
Electricity Energy Environment Lead Story Natural resources News
A coalition of 422 civil society and environmental groups are calling on the government to halt all proposed coal and large-scale hydropower projects, citing a raft of negative impacts on vulnerable local communities.
Human Rights Labour Issues Lead Story News
For those who escaped slave-like conditions in Southeast Asia’s exploitative seafood industry, the nightmare is over, but the memories remain.
Karenni Land Lead Story News Shan
Construction on the controversial Upper Paunglaung Dam in Mandalay has been completed, according to Burmese state media.
Development Human Rights Lead Story News Shan
A new report by an NGO and two local partners attempts to quantify the damage wrought by the eviction of thousands of villagers in southern Shan state.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
The firebrand monk says the NLD are “full of themselves” and unlikely to win the vote. In response, an NLD spokesman says Wirathu should “go to hell”.
Arakan Communal Violence Lead Story News
An Arakanese court has sentenced seven Buddhists each to seven years in jail over the killing of 10 Muslim pilgrims in an attack on a passenger bus in 2012, according to DPA.
Burma’s senior military leader urged the Thai government to ensure that the Burmese embassy’s special investigation team on the case “can conduct their work freely to uncover the truth”.
Arakan Communal Violence Lead Story News
Seven Buddhists charged for their participation in the murder of 10 Muslim pilgrims in Arakan State town of Taunggup in June 2012 are appealing against their indictment.
Analysis Contributor Lead Story News Rohingya
Salween Institute’s Saw Greh Moo analyses the moves ahead for the Rohingya, and calls to Thein Sein and Suu Kyi to stop playing ping-pong politics with their lives.
According to independent Burmese researchers, many locals suspect President Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government was the real culprit behind the racial violence in western Burma this summer
A young girl emerges from a dark room with barred windows. Inside a group of women sit huddled on the dirty floor, some clutching small children. At immediate glance the[…]
Now that most major sanctions against Burma have been dropped, who is set to profit most as the country continues its ‘reform’ process?
Burmese authorities have arrested 30 people for their suspected role in the murder of ten Muslim pilgrims in Arakan state’s Taungup township on 3 June
The three Muslim men accused of raping and killing Thida Htwe – the Arakanese girl whose death sparked sectarian violence across Burma’s Arakan state this month – were sentenced to death
In the late 1980s Thailand embarked on an ambitious project to transform a popular stretch of coastline east of Bangkok into the country’s largest industrial estate. Ten years later however[…]
In the late 1980s Thailand embarked on an ambitious project to transform a popular stretch of coastline east of Bangkok into the country’s largest industrial estate. Ten years later however[…]
Sayad fled a witch hunt in both Burma and Malaysia and is now being held in indefinite detenton in Australia, a victim of the Gillard administration’s controversial refugee policy
Child soldier ran away from the army is feared to be under torture after captured by authorities for desertion
UN human rights chief says the proposed plan to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia could violate international refugee laws
Acting UN envoy to Burma facing calls from rights group to be included in an investigation into Sri Lankan army’s execution of Tamil Tigers
With an apparent push for economic growth in Burma, the government need only to look to its neighbours to find recipes for success and failure
