No agreement reached after discussions between Kachin Independence Army and government but both sides vow to continue talks
Day: January 19, 2012
Govt upping health spending 0.7 percent
Spending on health sector to rise to two percent of annual budget, doing little to shift Burma’s low global healthcare ranking
Burma ‘blacklisting’ Rohingya children
Racial profiling of Muslim babies by Burmese government entails ban on children born out of wedlock obtaining travel documents
Rapper to contest seat in Burma’s capital
Founder of chart-topping Acid and former political prisoner Zayar Thaw to run in Naypyidaw as candidate for Suu Kyi’s opposition