Lead Story Media News Rohingya
A curious conference took place on Monday between several Associated Press (AP) reporters and the state-run News and Periodicals Enterprise (NPE) in Rangoon.
The Burmese government denied on Friday that a Buddhist mob ripped through a town in an isolated strife-torn corner of the country this week, attacking Muslim women and children. Villagers and a rights group said more than a dozen people may have been killed, and that hundreds have fled.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
US and EU call on Burma to allow immediate humanitarian access to an impoverished Rohingya refugee camp in Arakan state, while Human Rights Watch criticises Thai immigration authorities for alleged complicity in a Rohingya smuggling operation.
Thousands of displaced Rohingya are still stranded in low-lying areas next to the sea, less than a day before a tropical storm is expected to batter northwestern Burma
