For Gambira, another long-awaited release
The former monk Ashin Gambira, a leading figure in the 2007 Saffron Revolution, stepped out of prison today after serving what will hopefully be his last sentence.
The former monk Ashin Gambira, a leading figure in the 2007 Saffron Revolution, stepped out of prison today after serving what will hopefully be his last sentence.
A Buddhist monk and a young novice were injured in a mine explosion in Mongnawng, Shan State, on Monday evening.
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The NLD’s landslide victory over the USDP is seen to many as a dismissal of the anti-Mulism rhetoric that was employed by Ma-Ba-Tha during the election.
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On this special episode of DVB Debate, the panel discusses Burma’s role in the regional migrant crisis.
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The former NLD member has been convicted for defaming religion after criticising the nationalist policies of the Ma-Ba-Tha in October last year.
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A Buddhist abbot, Sayadaw Khaemika, is recovering after being shot four times.
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Government accounts of promises and apologies are false, say monks who were detained following Leptadan fracas.
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Some of those detained in the Letpadan protest crackdown are freed in Tharawaddy, as more student accounts of the violence emerge.
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Devotees meet in Tenasserim Division to celebrate the Buddhist festival.
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Roadblock is removed after students negotiate with senior education officials, agreeing to a meeting in Naypyidaw on Wednesday.
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Former NLD member apologises to monks after standing accused of defamation after making comments about the Ma-Ba-Tha.
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Two years after a brutal police crackdown against protesters at the Latpadaung copper mine site, Amnesty Int’l has issued a press release highlighting ongoing problems with the project.
On the second episode of DVB’s Doh Pyay Doh Myay Roadshow, the team explores a mountain cave in Karenni State, feared by locals to be haunted.
Buddhist nationalists in Magwe division have become the latest to march in support of the controversial Interfaith Marriage Law.
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The All Burma Monks’ Union say Buddhist monks at the scene of riots in Mandalay on Tuesday night had helped diffuse the situation, not enflame it.
Five disrobed monks from Rangoon’s Mahasantisukha Monastery have been released on 20 million kyat bail each from Tamwe Township Court on Friday afternoon after facing a hearing on charges of defaming religion.
More than 20 monasteries have been sued by Naypyidaw Council Ministry of Religious Affairs for refusing to relocate after property was deemed forest land by authorities.
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Community leader says Red Shan monks in photo are ‘temporary’ monks but that It is wholly inappropriate for Buddhist men of the cloth to participate in militia training.
Nationalist monks forced the abandonment of an NLD-organised literary festival in Rangoon on Wednesday, unhappy with Muslim speakers on the bill.
On the sixth anniversary of the Saffron Revolution, monks call on the government for an official apology.
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Officers from the police force’s special intelligence department arrested and beat locals from a village near the controversial Latpaduang copper mine in Monyway district during a pre-dawn raid on a Buddhist monastery
In Burma, there are millions of stray dogs and entrepreneurial citizens have taken notice. Across the country’s northern border, an individual dog is worth US$ 15 dollars in China – and the buyers are usually from restaurants
Two Bangladeshi nationals were arrested and hit with charges for defaming the Buddhist religion in Rangoon on Tuesday after they were caught disguising themselves as monks
Hundreds of monks from all over Southeast Asia, Bangladesh and Nepal demonstrated in front of the United Nations building in Bangkok on Wednesday, against bomb blasts at the Mahabodhi Temple[…]
By pushing for a law that would effectively ban interfaith marriages in Burma, Buddhist monks have exposed a poisonous mix of structural racism and misogyny at the heart of the Sangha
A prominent monk and outspoken advocate of Burma’s growing anti-Muslim movement has warned politicians to back a proposed ban on interfaith marriages or risk losing votes
A prominent democracy advocate urged Buddhist leaders not to use religion as a context for escalating tension in society.
About 200 senior Buddhist monks met at a monastery in Rangoon to discuss ways to end violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma. The monks drafted a law that proposed[…]
Monks marched through the streets of Taunggyi in protest after authorities demolished a Buddhist monastery that had allegedly been built on government land
A Buddhist campaign, known as “969”, is being used to promote religious nationalism in Burma and has been linked to a recent surge in anti-Muslim violence. But who are the monks behind the movement?