The Speaker of the British House of Commons, John Bercow, warned during a speech at Rangoon University today that unchecked religious violence threatens to undermine Burma’s nascent reform process
A ten-truck UN convoy with humanitarian assistance for more than 5,000 people arrived in displacement camps behind rebel lines in Kachin state on Friday for the first time in more than a year
Activists have accused the government of playing political games after more than 20 prisoners were released ahead of Thein Sein’s trip to the White House next week
The Chinese military has sent armed helicopters equipped with air-to-air missiles to Burma’s largest ethnic rebel group the United Wa State Army
A government-backed commission has recommended doubling armed troops in Arakan state to enforce security and segregation between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists
The commission appointed to investigate the two bouts of sectarian rioting in western Burma’s Arakan state last year postponed the release of their final report that was set to be published in March
Russia is looking to boost defence ties with Burma after losing its foothold in many traditional markets, including the conflict-torn Libya, Syria and Iraq
Burma’s Deputy Immigration and Population Minister Kyaw Kyaw Win denied the existence of the Rohingya ethnic group in Burma during a parliamentary session on Wednesday
As an unprecedented amount of investment is set to pour into Burma soon, DVB’s David Stout spoke with Jared Bissinger, a PhD candidate at Macquarie University who is studying Burma’s[…]
In an announcement published in The New Light of Myanmar today, President Thein Sein’s office ordered the formation of a commission to “grant liberty to remaining political prisoners”
President Thein Sein officially brought a member of the opposition into his inner circle yesterday with the appointment of National Democratic Force (NDF)’s Tin Shwe to the military-dominated cabinet
The Kachin Independence Organisation stated today that they would be willing to refrain from engaging in ‘military activities’ if the Burmese army agrees to end their offensive against their forces
State media officials issued a public apology on Thursday for mistakenly using a photo from a recent airplane crash in eastern Burma as evidence of a mine attack by Kachin rebels
DVB’s David Stout interviews Guy Horton from SOAS University of London, about his recent time in Kachin state. Horton discusses the state of the conflict in northern Kachin state, the[…]
Following a year that saw the release of hundreds of political prisoners, the signing of several ceasefire deals with armed groups and the outbreak of violence in Arakan state, DVB’s[…]
The filmmaker behind Al Jazeera’s ‘Hidden Genocide’ has refuted accusations of fabrication made by the Rakhine Nationalities and Development Party chairman
Indian officials have been accused of providing the Burmese army with Swedish weaponry used against Kachin rebels in direct violation of European sanctions
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sought to discredit an Al Jazeera documentary that will air this weekend in a report published in both editions of the New Light of Myanmar
A US Senator has called on Burmese President Thein Sein ‘to demonstrate transparency’ over suspicious cargo seized in Japan that allegedly contained nuclear material from North Korea on its way to Burma
President Obama pledged to support Burma’s nascent reform period but called on the country’s citizens to push for national reconciliation after decades of civil war and military rule.
Following the publication of the Thailand-Burma Border Consortium newest report, DVB’s David Stout spoke with the group’s emergency response director Duncan McArthur about the country’s ongoing peace process and how[…]
Following the publication of Displacement Solutions recent report on housing, land and property rights in Burma, DVB’s David Stout spoke with the organisation’s founder and director Scott Leckie about land[…]
Aung Naing Oo compares the crisis in Arakan state between the Muslim Rohingya and Buddhist Arakanese to what happened in Yugolsavia in the 1990’s
Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner, who has been covering Burma for more than two decades, is set to visit Rangoon after being blacklisted by the government since the 1980s
Thierry Falise, author of the newly released Burmese Shadows: Twenty-five Years Reporting on Life Behind the Bamboo Curtain, has spent a good portion of his professional career documenting Burma as[…]
In an open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi, 23 Kachin organisations have asked the democracy icon to travel to Maijayang to visit camps that house people displaced by the ongoing fighting in Kachin state
Despite a government announcement that more than 2,000 names were removed from the country’s blacklist, a number of journalists and academics are still unable to secure Burmese visas
President Thein Sein today announced another mass amnesty with the release of 514 prisoners, including an undisclosed number of foreigners, a week before he is set to travel to the US
More than a dozen people protested in front of the UNHCR’s offices in Rangoon last Friday to express their support of President Thein Sein’s plan to resettle the Rohingya minority in third countries
After the US began easing key sanctions against Burma this July, General Electric became the first major American corporation to invest in the country and inked deals to begin supplying[…]
