Karen border guard troop shot dead

First victim of DKBA transformation into a Border Guard Force is a 31-year-old caught attempting to defect to renegade commander's territory

Karen town eastern Burma’s ‘most deadly’

Lu Thaw township in northern Karen state hit by relentless military attacks for two decades and report says is one of the worst cases in eastern Burma

Burma’s tax regime ‘arbitrary, unjust’

Poorer people in Burma are bearing the brunt of a taxation system that a damming new report says is both 'unjust and arbitrary'

Opinion & Analysis

Poverty in Burma is appalling

LARS BIRGEGARD

While conditions in Burma remain poor, recent media coverage of the UN Development Programme's work there has missed its positive impacts, such as micro-finance