Labour ministry allows extension of visa for migrants and orders police not to harass the thousands fleeing to Burma to escape floods
Day: October 28, 2011
Life on the frontline
The conflict in Kachin state is reaching an intensity not witnessed since a raft of ceasefire agreements were signed in the late 1980s. Troops from the Burmese army are nearing…
Suu Kyi, Zarganar to host film festival
Two luminaries of the pro-democracy movement among a four-member team hosting festival to mark Burma’s Independence Day
UN caginess hides a Kachin refugee crisis
The failure of UN agencies in Burma to acknowledge the full extent of the refugee crisis in northern Burma means that 20,000 war victims will continue to go hungry