Rangoon University reopened for a new term on Thursday, but this time with undergraduates attending classes in antiquated classrooms for the first time since 1996.
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Escape from Namhlinpar
South Korean photojournalist Lee Yu Kyung caught up with a hundred Kachin IDPs fleeing fighting last week around Mansi township.
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Rohingya refugees – a woman’s perspective
Freelance photographer Marta Tucci went to Arakan state to document the conditions that Rohingya women live with.
Goenka’s ashes scattered on Rangoon River
Indian-Burmese meditation guru Goenka, 90, passed away at his home in Mumbai on 29 September, but his ashes were brought back to the country of his birth.
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Art knows no borders
A new arts centre has opened in the Sino-Burmese border town of Laiza, the headquarters of Kachin Independence Organisation.
A rally for peace
Hundreds of people marched from Rangoon’s City Hall to the People’s Park for peace and national reconciliation.
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All aboard the Pilgrim Express to Kyaiktiyo
A new Rangoon-Kyaiktiyo train offers tourists and Buddhist pilgrims a ticket to the Golden Rock.
The Rohingya – a forgotten people?
Journalists Matt Rains and Alia Mehboob travelled to Arakan state in 2012 to document the lives of Rohingya Muslims in the wake of last year’s ethno-religious violence.
Monsoon rains inundate Rangoon
Residents in Rangoon’s suburban outskirts were reportedly unable to travel to large swaths of downtown on Friday morning due to excessive flooding
Tension boils over in Arakan state
Attempts to bring stability to Burma’s restive Arakan state could be disintegrating after police opened fire on Rohingya Muslims last week, as tensions in the region continue to rise following[…]
Remembering the uprising
Art exhibitions, conventions and moments of silence have been held to honour the hundreds of thousands of people who rose up against Ne Win’s dictatorship in 1988
Burma celebrates Thingyan
Burma celebrates the Buddhist New Year Water Festival, Thingyan, which runs from 13-16 April. People celebrate by throwing water on each other to wash away the sins and bad luck[…]
After the fire
A fire at an Islamic school in Rangoon killed 13 children in the early hours of Tuesday in what officials said could have been an accident, but comes in the[…]
Riots consume Meikhtila
The central Burmese town of Meikhtila declared a curfew for a second night on Thursday after clashes killed 10 people, including a Buddhist monk, and injured at least 20, authorities said.[…]
NLD eyes 2015
During the National League for Democracy’s first national congress, Aung San Suu Kyi was reelected as chair of the opposition party. About 900 people were nominated to attend the convention[…]
Still waiting
Words and photos by Eduardo de Francisco In the months since waves of violence hit Arakan state in June and October 2012, about 100,000 people –mostly Rohingya- still live in camps.[…]
After the crackdown
by Reuters Protestors took to the streets in Rangoon and Mandalay following a brutal crackdown on Buddhist monks last week. Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas on 29[…]
Quakes rock central Burma
[scrollGallery id=32 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] Aftershocks rattled central Burma after an earthquake that killed at least 26 people, with that toll likely to rise on[…]
Renewed unrest in Arakan
[scrollGallery id=31 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] The United Nations said more than 20,000 people had now been displaced after unrest between Muslim and Buddhist Arakanese claimed[…]
Glimpses of Rangoon
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A call for peace
[scrollGallery id=28 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] Hundreds of people, including farmers and members from various ethnic groups, participated in a march against civil war on 21[…]
Copper and compensation
[scrollGallery id=27 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] Villagers protested against the seizing of more than 7,800 acres of farmland for a copper mine project in Sarlingyi Township[…]
Amid the deluge
[scrollGallery id=26 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] More than 700 villages and over 200,000 acres (80,940 hectares) of rice fields have been flooded across Burma as seasonal[…]
Capital details
[scrollGallery id=25 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] Under the mysterious direction of the former State Peace and Development Council, Burma’s capital was moved in 2005 from its[…]
Unrest in Arakan state
[scrollGallery id=22 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] Northwestern Burma was tense on Monday, 11 June, after sectarian violence engulfed its largest city at the weekend, with Reuters[…]
Northern resistance
[scrollGallery id=21 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] Fierce clashes continue to break out after the ceasefire between the Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Army was broken[…]
Opium wars
[scrollGallery id=19] Reuters accompanied Burmese officials and staff from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to Shan state recently to observe Burma’s proclaimed war on opium. Burmese police and UN[…]
Burma’s lifeblood
[scrollGallery id=18] The Irrawaddy River flows 2,170 km down the length of Burma before emptying out into the Andaman Sea. Dubbed ‘The Road to Mandalay’ by Rudyard Kipling, the river has[…]
Homeless again
[scrollGallery id=16] Up to 3,000 were left destitute after a fire last week swept through five wards of the Umpiem Mai refugee camp on Thailand’s border with Burma. Camp officials[…]
No end in sight
[scrollGallery id=15] Refugees who have fled the war in Kachin state continue to be holed up camps along Burma’s northern border, where aid supplies are low. While China has denied[…]
