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“A million laborers are afraid of famine” Major unions call for total boycott as workers, business, and experts butt heads

As Burma’s economy flatlines, the country’s largest unions have demanded a total boycott of garment factory production, generating confusion amongst leading international exporters and...

Anti-war protests: activists granted bail

Bahan township police commander Thein Win said the police intend to press charges against the demonstration ringleaders.

Hundreds of CSOs decry arrest of anti-war protesters

Nearly 400 civil society organisations in Burma released a joint statement on Tuesday demanding the release of activists who were detained and are facing charges for their role in an anti-war protest in Yangon on May 12.

Kachin State minister faces criticism over IDP relief response

Criticism has emerged over remarks by Kachin State’s social affairs minister after he said the state government did not know the location of many people displaced by recent conflict, professing ignorance amid reports of hundreds trapped in the jungles surrounding Tanai Township’s Awng Lawt village.

More Kachin villagers flee as clashes intensify

“Local villagers are simply too afraid to stay in homes close to the fighting, because they can hear and feel the constant blasts of heavy artillery fire.”

Reuters reporters trial: CSOs call for investigation into ‘entrapment’ claim

The CSOs also called for the release of two police officers, one of whom testified last Friday at the trial, saying that a police team had “set up” the journalists.

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