Cinema lovers will set their focus on Burma this week as the annual ASEAN film festival begins in Rangoon.
Author: KO ZAN
Latpadaung monastery to be moved, despite public outcry
A famous monastery on the site of the Latpadaung copper mine is to be moved despite opposition from locals, who fear the destruction of the sacred structure.
Suspended animation - Sacked comic illustrators hit back
Illustrators fired by a Korean owned business in Rangoon claim that their sacking was a recrimination for previous union activity.
Pegu farmers injured in police crackdown
Three farmers are injured in Pegu where police broke up a protest site of about 100 locals who had been demanding the return of farmland they say was confiscated by…
Nine Latpadaung protestors freed
Nine activists have been released following their arrest on Wednesday after a protest near the Latpadaung copper mine turned violent.
Burma to repatriate workers from Borneo shipyard drama
Twenty-one of the 97 Burmese migrant workers who had locked themselves in a warehouse at a Borneo shipyard after being set upon by a rival gang of workers are due…