Development Land Lead Story News
Thilawa SEZ appeals to investors but angers locals
Former residents of the area now being used as part of the Thilawa Special Economic Zone say they haven’t been adequately compensated for the loss of their land.
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Business Interview Lead Story News
Interview: ‘We need to work together effectively’
DVB speaks with Zaw Min Win, the new chairman of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, about the federation’s plans for the future.
Business Labour Issues Lead Story News
Labour rights reforms and impatient unions a challenge for NLD
Burma’s growing industrial workforce is becoming increasingly unionised and assertive.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Social media raises migrants’ awareness of rights
A Facebook post that alerted a group of Burmese migrants to their own exploitation has triggered a landmark case on the rights of foreign workers in Thailand.
Health Lead Story News Sagaing
Metal contamination on Chindwin River ‘dangerously high’
“We discovered that the contamination of heavy metals such as iron, copper and arsenic has increased in the Chindwin River due to waste disposal from gold mining operations,” said the Ministry of Transport’s Director-General.
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Interview Lead Story News Women's Issues
Interview: ‘A group of women recognising each other as equals’
DVB speaks to Liz Hilton of Empower, a group that works to ensure equal rights for sex workers in Thailand.
How India helps fuel Burma’s meth boom
A surge in pseudoephedrine smuggled in from India is key to the boom in Burma’s methamphetamine production, say police and narcotics experts.
Sagaing farmers call for compensation, closure of nickel mine
Residents from 22 villages around the town of Tigyaing said they lost a total of 16,632 acres to land grabs by the military government between 2005 and 2008 to make way for the Tagaung Nickel Mining Project and other ventures.
Environment Health Lead Story News
Amnesty adds voice to calls for relocation of acid factory
Amnesty International says a heavily polluting acid factory located in a village in Sagaing Division should be moved to an area where it will do less harm.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Another poultry farm worker faces charges
A second Burmese poultry farm worker is to be charged with stealing a time-card from his workplace in Thailand, in a case that is attracting international attention.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Chicken farm case spurs action from Thai industry
As former workers at a poultry farm in Thailand’s Lopburi Province come forward with allegations of abuse, major Thai food exporters are moving quickly to allay concerns about their supply chains.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
100 Burmese lose jobs as security guards in Mae Sot
According to a new Thai law laid down in March, all security guards must be Thai citizens.
Premier Coffee reportedly agrees to workers’ back pay
“The Premier Coffee Company has now agreed to backdate its outstanding wages to the workers,” said FGLLID’s Chit Paw.
Environment Lead Story Natural resources News
Loggers declare one-year moratorium
Burma’s largest producer of timber has declared a nationwide, one-year moratorium on logging, according to a spokesperson for the state-owned enterprise.
Human Rights Labour Issues Lead Story News
Lack of rights leaves housemaids open to abuses
Thousands of girls from poor families across Burma work as maids for wealthier households, and often face gruelling working hours and abuse.
Human Rights Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Suu Kyi apologises to migrants
Aung San Suu Kyi has apologised to supporters who stood in the rain for hours hoping to see her during her visit to Mahachai on Thursday.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News Suu Kyi
Suu Kyi addresses migrants in Mahachai
“Ideally, we want you to have passports, and Thailand, your host country, does not object to this,” she told Burmese migrants at the fishing port town.
Contributor Lead Story News Opinion
The road to Dawei is paved with empty promises
Aung San Suu Kyi should think again if she believes that going ahead with the Dawei Special Economic Zone project is a good way to create jobs in Burma.
Human Rights Labour Issues Lead Story News
Survey finds child labour in supply chains
Child labour continues to be a serious problem affecting supply chains for goods sourced from Burma and other Asian countries, a new survey finds.
Labour Issues Lead Story News Rangoon
Rangoon factory workers go on strike
Around 100 workers of the Lawun Htet Tha garment factory in Rangoon’s Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone have gone on strike in protest against late salary payments.
Environment Feature Lead Story News Photos
U Bein Bridge: What lies beneath
At sunrise and sunset a rash of tourists swarm Ubein Bridge to take photos of the iconic teak bridge. But what you don’t see in most of the glossy guidebooks is the rubbish in the foreground.
Building bridges – with hair
Women across Burma are choosing to cut off their hair and donate it to a monastery that is building new bridges across the country.
Education International Relations Lead Story News
Burma MPs look to Japan for training assistance
Members of a delegation of MPs returning from a study tour in Japan say that Burmese citizens may receive training with Japan’s assistance.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Fireworks explosion kills six Burmese migrants
The explosion on Thursday killed six Burmese workers in Thailand, while an accident on Friday morning claimed the lives of two more migrants.
Interview Lead Story Media News
Interview: ‘Army needs to be less suspicious of the media’
Tint San, the former CEO of the now defunct Unity Journal, speaks to DVB about media relations with Burma’s current government and the military.
Children labour under Burma’s economic boom
When a boat stacked with gravel moors at a jetty in Rangoon, a child fills a basket he carries to trucks that whisk the load to construction sites.
Human Trafficking Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Thai police rescue trafficked Burmese workers
The 17 workers were being held against their will at a coconut-processing factory in Ratchaburi Province, near the Thai-Burmese border.
Slew of foreign investments approved before govt power transfer
Foreign direct investment in the fiscal year ending in March grew to nearly $9 billion, after a rush of last-minute approvals.
Land grab disputes to meet incoming NLD govt
The new government will have to address numerous junta-era land grabs, such as in Ayeyawaddy Region’s Pantanaw Township where hundreds of farmers lost land.
