New Zealander jailed in Burma to be released Friday
Phil Blackwood, a New Zealand national incarcerated in Rangoon’s Insein Prison since December 2014, was released in a Presidential Amnesty on Friday.
Phil Blackwood, a New Zealand national incarcerated in Rangoon’s Insein Prison since December 2014, was released in a Presidential Amnesty on Friday.
2015 Elections Analysis Lead Story News
“The upsurge of support for the NLD among the indigenous peoples is interesting, considering ethnic politics is concentrated largely in extra-parliamentary politics, that being the armed struggle.”
Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News
Burma’s military junta continues to rape the land of its most precious commodity, according to a stinging new report by Global Witness.
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Analysis Ethnic issues Lead Story News Peace Process
Thursday’s signatories will hope that the inking of the ceasefire, with its broad but stated points to address localised conflict, will provide the time needed for lengthy discussions to come.
Burma’s state-run broadcaster will carry 15-minute party political broadcasts throughout the 60-day campaign period ahead of the general election on 8 November, but authorities have dictated a number of red lines.
Minister Myint Kyu characterised homosexuality as “unacceptable” and threatened to detain and “educate” gay men in particular.
Interview Lead Story News Video
The Karen National Union vice president told DVB that current fighting in northern and eastern Burma has damaged trust.
Business Foreign Affairs Lead Story News
In a 9 July notice posted on the US Treasury website, Thidar Zaw, 51, was noted as having been removed from the blacklist.
Education Interview Lead Story Video
‘Where to from here for Burma’s education reform movement?’
Interview Lead Story News Peace Process
DVB speaks to Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team member Hkun Okker as 3 ethnic groups threaten to quit the ethnic bloc.
The failure of nationalist hardliners to react to routine cases of violence against women suggests that it is ownership of Buddhist women and girls – rather than their protection – that motivates them.
Culture Feature Lead Story News Travel & Tourism Video
70 antique cars set off from Singapore this month and have passed through Malaysia and Thailand, en route to Mandalay.
The Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business has found that the majority of domestic firms are unwilling or unable to disclose information on their own human rights standards.
Zaw Pe was freed from Thayat prison, Magwe on Friday after a court reduced his sentence from one year to three months.
Magwe divisional court has reduced the sentence of DVB video-journalist Zaw Pe from one year to three months.
Nay Myo Zin and Win Cho were released from Insein Prison on Tuesday, having spent 84 days locked up for organising an unauthorised demonstration in downtown Rangoon.
As a now three year old conflict in northern Burma continues, rights groups are calling on an otherwise ambivalent Burmese government to put a stop to violations.
US companies remain under the microscope as they navigate sanctions to invest in an opening Burma.
In a speech on Wednesday, US President Barack Obama pointed to “American leadership” as a driver of democratic reform in Burma.
The World Bank has announced it will provide US$100 million to expand the Burmese Ministry of Education’s School Grants and School Stipends Programme.
One month after a court in Magwe handed DVB video journalist Zaw Pe a year-long prison sentence, more than 200 protestors took to the streets of the central Burmese city to stage an unauthorised demonstration in support of press freedom.
Analysis Lead Story Media News
The Burmese media landscape is blighted by the existence of six imprisoned media workers while the Ministry of Information (MoI) appears driven by an agenda seemingly at odds with a revitalised Burmese media community.
Lead Story News Women's Issues
Burma Campaign UK have reopened allegations of the Burmese army’s use of sexual violence as a weapon, calling for an international commission into military abuse.
Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is due to depart France for home on Wednesday, having canvased international support for her agenda of constitutional change in Burma.
The NLD has been told that party elder Win Tin has a 50-50 chance of survival as he remains in a Rangoon ICU following an operation on his large intestine on Saturday.
Incomplete demographic data is holding back development efforts in a new Burma, yet counting heads now could cause violence.
Lead Story News Uncategorized Women's Issues
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Burma’s President Thein Sein and House Speaker Shwe Mann to reject the Emergency Provisions on Marriage Act for Burmese Buddhist Women.
Ethnic issues Interview Lead Story News Society
DVB’s Angus Watson speaks to Janet Jackson, Burma Representative of the United Nations Population Fund, and her assistant Hla Hla Aye, about the international agency’s role in the upcoming census, its significance and the potential pitfalls.
Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News
The Shan Human Right Foundation has accused the Burmese army of an attack on 11 villages in Shan State, in which civilians were tortured.
Human Rights Watch has written to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, heavily criticizing the UN invitation to involve the Burmese army in future international peacekeeping missions.