Development Lead Story News Property Uncategorized
Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd (YSH) and Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd (HSH) announced on Monday that they will partner on the development of the Peninsula Yangon [Rangoon], a five-star resort that will incorporate the 1880s structure into a more modern type of travel hub.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Uncategorized
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) opened a new office in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina on Tuesday, its fifth regional outpost in Burma.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Uncategorized
Burma’s Ministry of Immigration and Population has launched an advance census in remote parts of KachinState in the country’s far north. The controversial survey — which some have even requested postponing — will not begin until 30 March in most parts of the country.
Education Lead Story News Politics Uncategorized
Burma’s Ministry of Education has retracted an invitation to the National Network for Education Reform to attend a national education reform seminar in Naypyidaw
Environment Lead Story Migrants Issues News Uncategorized Video
New evidence of migrant slavery has emerged along the coast of Thailand, the world’s third largest seafood exporter.
Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News Peace Process Uncategorized
Fighting broke out between the Shan State Army – South (SSA-S) and the Burma Army on Sunday, the first such clash this year, according to the SSA-S.
Drugs Ethnic issues Lead Story News Uncategorized
In eastern Burma, efforts are underway to hamper opium production in Shan State, which, combined with adjacent parts of Laos and Thailand, produces a staggering 18 percent of the world’s opiates.
Lead Story News Politics Uncategorized
President Thein Sein proposed on Thursday that a commission be formed to begin tackling corruption in Burma.
Lead Story Media News Politics Uncategorized
Burma’s ‘democratic spring’ may be cooling down as progress towards media freedom stagnates, according to the 2014 World Press Freedom Index.
Analysis Contributor Ethnic issues Lead Story News Uncategorized
Why is poverty such a huge problem in Chin State? Rachel Fleming of Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) examines the causes and potential solutions from a human rights perspective.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Peace Process Uncategorized
The retirement of Lt. General Yawd Serk adds some uncertainty to the path towards nationwide peace, as a draft multi-lateral peace agreement garners support among most of Burma’s armed ethnic groups.
Lead Story News Society Uncategorized
A public address by visiting British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire, scheduled to be held at Rangoon University on Thursday, was moved to a last-minute closed-door session at the British Council in Rangoon “for reasons beyond our control.”
Residents of Ayadaw Township in Sagaing Division claim they were forcibly recruited for the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) by local civil servants when they applied for citizen identification cards.
ASEAN Lead Story News Rohingya Uncategorized
Burma on Thursday rejected the inclusion of talks on the country’s Rohingya minority at the first meeting of South-East Asian foreign ministers to be hosted by the once pariah state.
Lead Story News Uncategorized Video
Aung San Suu Kyi joined the world in paying tribute to Nelson Mandela on Friday, while speaking at the Women’s Forum Myanmar in Rangoon.
Burmese authorities carried out a surprise raid in a northern town on Saturday, after allegations surfaced of a wide-scale police corruption ring authorising the use of hundreds of unlicenced vehicles
After mobs assaulted two reporters during riots in Shan state’s Lashio on Wednesday, journalists and editors in Burma called on the government and state security to do more to protect[…]
Police have named 18 Rohingya refugees as suspects for the deaths of eight Buddhists in an immigration detention centre, and say they will face trial in Indonesia.
The downtown area of Rangoon is well known for its iconic colonial architecture. But recent developments in the country mean century old buildings are demolished to make way for modern[…]
Thai officials deny allegations of arson, insisting the fire that raged through the Mae Surin refugee camp in northern Thailand on Friday was an accident.
A time lapse of Maijayang’s Pakahtawng camp in Kachin state. There are 2457 people living in the camp – the children are from northern Shan state and were sent to[…]
NEW POSITIONS: Job Descriptions Please send your applications to: [email protected] Chief Financial Officer Position DVB is in a period of dynamic transition. Reporting to and partnering with the Executive Directors, the[…]
As the National League for Democracy kicks off its first national congress, DVB asked a group of NLD members and leaders from national opposition parties what they expected to come[…]
The sponsor of a British-led team hunting for dozens of rare World War II Spitfires said to have been buried in Burma has abandoned the search, saying stories of the stashed planes are merely “legend”
Nearly 1,000 Muslim Rohingyas remain incarcerated in northern Arakan state, where campaigners say they are subject to “pervasive” abuses and at least 68 people are believed to have died in custody
After the fall of the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) final hill station outside Laiza last weekend, DVB asked a group of the country’s ethnic minority leaders about the government’s role[…]
An angry policeman gestures and shouts in Arakanese. The road is blocked with wooden fences and cords of barbed wire. A local man wrapped in a puffy coat and woollen[…]
Painted on scraps of clothing with carved soap, cigarette lighters and even syringes, Htein Lin’s artworks were his lifeline during years in Burma’s jails — and the spark for an extraordinary love story
Faced with exploding HIV rates and daily threats of violence, sex workers in Burma are joining together to challenge prostitution laws they say leave them vulnerable to abuse
Their journalists risked jail terms to report inside Burma under years of brutal junta rule, but once-exiled media now operate openly – and face flak for being too cosy with[…]
