From Centrally Planned to Market Economies: The Asian Approach: Volume 3: Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam: Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam Vol 3
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Guest Column by Dr. V. Suryanarayan The Indian Community in Myanmar is one of those forgotten children of Mother India. The tragic status of the community has not been sufficiently brought to light by any institution in India.. The Singhvi Committee Report: According to the Singhvi Committee Report, the total Indian population in Myanmar is estimated to be 2.9 million, of which 2,500,00 are People...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Myanmar top leader Senior General Than Shwe said that a free and fair election would be held in 2010in accordance with the publicly approved constitution, according to the official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar on Saturday. Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, made the remarks at a meeting of the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) on Friday....
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Myanmar and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) held a joint ceremony in Yangon Friday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), aimed at promoting the spirit of childhood in the country. The event in Yangon was a follow-up of the first such event taking place in Nay Pyi Taw on Nov. 20. The commemoration focused on some pertinent...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Australia will extend 15 million U.S. dollars more of fund to Myanmar for carrying out various post-Nargis recovery plans in cyclone-hit areas, the local Biweekly Eleven reported Thursday. Of the fund provided through international non-governmental organizations, 7 million dollars will be used in water, environmental sanitation and hygiene program, 4 million dollars in food security, 2 million in education,...
Public Health in Myanmar (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေဆးေကာင္စီ ဆိုင္ရာ ဥပေဒ ေအာက္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္မွာ...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Date: 26 Nov 2009 Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
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AP : The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. [...]More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. Besides the...
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Transparency International has released their annual report on state corruption. Click on the above map for an interactive sort that reports the corruption index for each country moused over. The bottom end of this scale are the usual suspects of late, Somalia, Myanmar, Sudan and Iraq. The upper echelon include New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore and Sweden. [...]
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
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Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- China has urged authorities in Myanmar to protect the safety and legal rights of the detained Chinese mainland and Taiwan fishermen, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang Thursday. According to Taiwan media reports, two Taiwan fishing boats have been detained by the Myanmar military. Asked to confirm the reports at a routine press conference, Qin said the Myanmar authorities...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in makeshift homes 18 months after Cyclone Nargis tore into Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, killing at least 140,000, the United Nations said Wednesday.
Gadling (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Filed under: Asia , Burma (Myanmar) Daily life is a struggle in Myanmar. For the average local, working days are filled with long hours of backbreaking manual labor, meager pay and no weekends or vacation time. Considering this exhausting schedule, festivals and holidays are special times - a chance to kick back, relax and let loose. In Myanmar's Shan State , one of the most important of these festivities...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Date: 25 Nov 2009 Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
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