ASEAN chief says however that Burma’s genarals still have much to do to prove their willingness to collaborate after the cyclone Nargis fiasco
Month: August 2010
Burma ‘hosting India’s greatest security threat’
Indian police sources say that Maoist rebels are being trained in Indian insurgent camps located across the northeastern border in Burma
US rues ‘dictators in civilian clothes’
US labels army reshuffle a ‘civilianisation’ of the status quo in Burma and says that little will change unless substantial transformation takes place
Aung Lynn Htut: ‘Junta needs legitimacy’
Only days after news of a wholesale army reshuffle in Burma broke, DVB caught up with Aung Lynn Htut, a former senior intelligence officer in Burma’s defence ministry and once…
Poverty in Burma is appalling
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
Oil workers ‘punched, kicked’ by police
Riot police and security called to quell protest by 1000 workers in northwestern Burma who complained they were being duped by oil buyer