Months after a maid abuse scandal prompted some of its members to resign, the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission is being drawn into the case of a 13-year-old domestic helper who has accused her employers of beating and scalding her.
Arakan Farmers Lead Story News
The residents of flood-prone Kyaukphyu Township in southwestern Arakan State are still struggling to resume agricultural production seven years after their lands were devastated by Cyclone Giri in 2010.
The introduction of more productive crops is a key strategy for helping vulnerable communities in the Dry Zone.
An untold number of disabled veterans live in army-built communities, struggling to support their families on government allowances.
Business Labour Issues Lead Story News
Burma’s growing industrial workforce is becoming increasingly unionised and assertive.
Crime Lead Story News Politics
A newspaper published by Burma’s former ruling party claims that crime has sharply risen in the less than five months that the NLD has been in power.
Environment Lead Story Logging News
As the NLD government steps up efforts to protect Burma’s forests, officers in the Pegu mountain range face off with increasingly violent loggers.
Education IDPs Lead Story News
As efforts to expand education opportunities in rebel-controlled parts of Kachin State grow, many hope the peace process will bring lasting solutions.
Mainstream Buddhist clerics are among the growing chorus of voices speaking out against the divisive activities of Buddhist nationalist group Ma Ba Tha.
Some 40,000 displaced Kachins have now spent five years in camps in remote, KIA-controlled mountains, where humanitarian aid deliveries have dwindled.
Drugs Feature Kachin Lead Story News
Tens of thousands of poor men from across Burma seek their fortune at Hpakant’s jade mines, only to see their lives ruined by drug addiction.
The nationalist monks opened a Rangoon school that teaches students how to become ‘decent citizens’ who protect Burma’s majority race and Buddhist religion.
Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News
Maung Aye left his poor village for Hpakant, where he risks his life each day to find the one jade stone that will lift him out of poverty.
Environment Lead Story Natural resources News
Villagers in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township feel threatened as whole mountains are turned into dangerous, unstable waste heaps.
Business Health Lead Story News
Rising demand for purified drinking water has led to a proliferation of brands — some unlicensed and lacking hygiene standards.
Interview Lead Story News Politics
Nay Phone Latt, a well-known blogger and new NLD MP for the Rangoon Division parliament, discusses what the city should prioritise under the new government.
President Thein Sein’s government continues to arrest many activists, leaving the incoming NLD government with the task of releasing hundreds.
2015 Elections Interview Lead Story
“Culture is something we really need to safeguard, but some traditions that are not in tune with the times should be discarded.”
2015 Elections Analysis Lead Story News Politics
After decades of persecution, the former opposition is set to take power.
NLD spokesperson and Central Executive Committee member Nyan Win speaks about policy plans and presidential candidates for the incoming government.
Local villagers said years of unregulated gold mining several kilometres away has caused the environmental degradation as dumped waste and chemicals has flowed into the stream.
Lawmakers and activists assess the performance of the current parliament, as the NLD prepares to take the reigns in 2016.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
Cartoonist Hla Khin said he felt humiliated after police informed him that he was to be charged with an offence related to Burma’s 8 November election.
2015 Elections Lead Story News
Some 40,000 new police officers – almost one per polling station – have been drafted in to provide security for election day.
