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Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she will raise human rights concerns with Burmese and Cambodian leaders during a three-day summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that begins in Sydney on Friday.
Australian investors keen to access Burma’s mining industry and replicate lessons learned from the island nation’s mining boom years raise questions about taxation, policy constraints and bureaucracy at a panel discussion in Rangoon.
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Australia’s former ambassador to Burma, Trevor Wilson, speaks about how far Burma has come since his tenure, and why he thinks Thein Sein is under-valued.
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Six smugglers at the centre of a “pay and turn back” row between Indonesia and Australia were being questioned by Indonesian police on Tuesday.
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Indonesia’s foreign minister on Saturday demanded answers from Canberra after Tony Abbott refused to deny allegations of paying traffickers to turn back.
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday Australia would stop traffickers’ trade “by hook or by crook” amid allegations of paying for boats to turn back.
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“According to their testimony, they were pushed back by the Australian navy and immigration after they were interrogated,” said an Indonesian official.
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Tony Abbott emphatically rejects suggestions that boat people could be resettled in Australia. Meanwhile, Canberra revises its aid package to Burma.
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Australia reiterated its backing on Tuesday for its regional neighbours’ efforts to stem a surge in boatpeople in Southeast Asia by turning back vessels.
An American and an Austrian citizen have been arrested in Shan State’s Muse, along with a third individual who police say is a rebel group member.
Canberra is to donate US$2.5 million to UNICEF for the protection of children in Burma from sexual and physical violence, and human trafficking.
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Life is difficult for many Burmese refugees relocating in Australia, but local volunteers are dedicating themselves to helping the transition.
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Hundreds walked the notorious Hellfire Pass on Friday to commemorate Australian soldiers conscripted to build Japan’s “Death Railway” from Bangkok to Rangoon during WWII.
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The arraignment of two journalists based in southern Thailand has been postponed following pleas from rights advocates that charges be dropped.
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DVB speaks to Assoc Prof Nigel Finch of the University of Sydney on transparency in foreign investment in Burma and the relationship between the extractive industry and the Burmese people.
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Burmese asylum-seekers living in Indonesia say they will continue to risk their lives and travel by boat to Australia, despite the very high chance they will never get there.
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A two-year-old was among three asylum seekers who drowned when their boat sank off Java en route to Australia’s remote Christmas Island. Indonesian police said 29 others were rescued.
Reuters has uncovered what they say is confirmation that illegal camps are maintained in the southern Thai jungle as holding centres for Rohingya boatpeople who are sold on to human smuggling outfits.
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Speaking at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Australia on Wednesday, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi distanced herself once again from human rights while reiterating her political goals.
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Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Australia on her first official visit to the country.
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will fly to Australia later this month for her first diplomatic tour of the country, where she will meet with political leaders and members of the Burmese diaspora.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has sought to downplay Indonesian concerns about his controversial new asylum policy during a diplomatic visit to Jakarta this week.
Australia is set to deport over 100 Rohingya asylum-seekers to detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in the coming weeks, in spite of accusations that the move would breach international human rights law.
While Australia’s foreign policy with Burma was once centred on human rights, trade and investment have now trumped the government’s former goals
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr met Burma’s reformist leaders Wednesday on a visit aimed at boosting relations with the former junta-ruled nation in reward for sweeping political changes
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Australia will ease restrictions on Burma during President Thein Sein’s landmark trip to the country on Monday.
Australia boosted aid and eased restrictions on defence cooperation with Burma as Thein Sein became the Southeast Asian country’s first head of state to visit Canberra since 1974
Australia will donate USD$ 2.5 million in humanitarian assistance to Burma. The money will be split between providing emergency relief for displaced people in Arakan and Kachin states.
As the investment boom hits Burma, eager Australian firms have been given the green light to enter the race to invest in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation
