Children who escape from the Burmese army continue to be detained and treated as adult deserters; and accountability measures have so far failed to deter ongoing underage recruitment despite the…
Month: November 2013
Business Weekly
BUSINESS IN BURMA THIS WEEK: Hotels open in Naypyidaw for SEA Games; India eyes pan-Asian gas contract; rubber deal signed with Japan; IMF’s Christine Lagarde is en route to Burma;…
Tawwin factory workers convicted under Article 18
Six workers from Tawwin Wood Finished Products Factory who staged a protest demanding salary increases and labour rights in October 2012 were convicted by Sanchaung township court in Rangoon on…
Ethnic autonomy is the only road to peace, says KIA
Soldiers of the Kachin Independence Army posted at the Lawa Yang frontline say the only way to achieve genuine peace in Burma is to grant the ethnic groups autonomy and…
Govt rejects NLD proposal for quadripartite meeting
Burmese presidential spokesman Ye Htut said an NLD proposal to discuss constitutional reform between the president, the military, the parliament and itself as Burma’s main opposition party should wait until…
Additional US$1 million for development in Chin state – but is it enough?
An additional one billion kyat (US$1 million) budget was approved for development in Chin state at an emergency meeting of the regional parliament in Hakha on Tuesday.