Children in Arakan’s IDP camps are becoming malnourished as UN aid agencies and INGOs struggle to resume operations in the violence-plagued state.
Day: April 23, 2014
Press freedom campaigns to be launched across Burma
A series of public campaigns for press freedom and the release of jailed reporters are being prepared by media organisations and correspondents across Burma.
Mourners turn out for Win Tin’s funeral
Hundreds of mourners have turned out for the funeral of NLD co-founder and veteran journalist U Win Tin, which is taking place at the Yay Way Cemetery in Rangoon on…
Food poisoning strikes at Buddhist ceremony in Pegu
Around 270 people in Pegu [Bago] Division have been hospitalised with food poisoning after eating milk-noodle soup at a Buddhist ordination ceremony in the town of Thegon.