[scrollGallery id=8] The Thai engineering giant Ital-Thai candidly admitted earlier this year that around 10,000 people would be forced to make way for the massive Tavoy industrial complex and deep-sea…
Year: 2011
'I want to see Burma, my country. But it’s not safe for us there'
For the tens of thousands of refugees living in camps along the Thai-Burma border, the future is clouded in pessimistic uncertainty
Indonesia and Burma FMs discuss ASEAN chair
Indonesia’s Marty Natalegawa met with Wanna Maung Lwin in Rangoon and discussed procedures for the hand-over of ASEAN’s chairmanship to Burma in year 2014
Burma appoints labour official for Thailand
Labour Administration Department’s director Chit Shein said the newly appointed official has already begun meeting with migrant worker groups in the country to study their situations
Japan urges Burma to continue with reforms
Koichiro Gemba, the first Japanese foreign minister to visit Burma since 2002, met President Thein Sein and his counterpart Wunna Maung Lwin in the country’s remote capital of Naypyidaw
Burma moots early 2012 prisoner amnesty
Prisoners will be released in two batches in January and February, Burmese government minister tells leaders from the KNU