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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.
2015 Elections Interview Lead Story News Politics
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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Tony Abbott emphatically rejects suggestions that boat people could be resettled in Australia. Meanwhile, Canberra revises its aid package to Burma.
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.
Feature Lead Story News Refugees
Life is difficult for many Burmese refugees relocating in Australia, but local volunteers are dedicating themselves to helping the transition.
Bullet Points: bringing you the news for Thursday 3 July.
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.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Rohingya
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.
Ethnic issues Feature Lead Story News Rohingya Video
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.
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.
Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi
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
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Australia will ease restrictions on Burma during President Thein Sein’s landmark trip to the country on Monday.
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
Two Australian election monitors were denied visas this week as the country braces for by-elections that may sweep major opposition parties into parliament
Delegates from the ASEAN Business Club to hold talks with industry figures in Burma as investors descend from the region and beyond
Australian govt defeated in high court over bid to send detained asylum seekers who arrive by boat to Malaysia
Lawyer David Manne has recently taken the Australian government to court over its plan to send detained asylum seekers who arrive by boat in Australia to Malaysia. Burmese nationals comprise[…]
Sayad fled a witch hunt in both Burma and Malaysia and is now being held in indefinite detenton in Australia, a victim of the Gillard administration’s controversial refugee policy
Lawyer brings injunction against deportation of asylum seekers to Malaysia as concern continues over controversial deal
Controversial refugee exchange deal goes through despite months of protestations from Australian MPs and the UN
