Four privately-owned banks to open money exchange services in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore to help flows of remittances
Month: January 2012
UN envoy to press govt on Kachin
Tomas Quintana arrives in Rangoon tonight and will raise the need for further aid to 70,000 Kachin displaced by ongoing fighting
Shan army signs ceasefire, agrees territory
Shan State Army–North becomes latest ethnic armed group to sign truce with government, with issues over territory agreed upon
Lawyers urge end to politicised laws
Unlawful Association Act that results in a three-year jail term for links to banned groups seen as not consistent with progress in Burma
Ex-army captain facing ‘T-shirt’ charge
Nay Myo Zin, who was released in January, back in court on charges of receiving t-shirt emblazoned with Suu Kyi’s image whilst in jail
Campaign trail
[scrollGallery id=13] Burma’s revered opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday drew tens of thousands of supporters to cheer her on as campaigning began for the 1 April by-elections. She…