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.
Day: February 15, 2014
Burma Business Weekly – 15 Feb 2014
BUSINESS in BURMA THIS WEEK – Germany forgives 740m Burmese debt; shares for Thilawa SEZ to go on sale; offshore oil and gas bidders await anxiously; and Burma struggles to…
600 Burmese released from Thai prisons
More than 600 Burmese prisoners have been released recently in Thailand, Burma’s Deputy Home Affairs Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Zan Myint said in parliament on Friday.
Burma’s rice industry faces growing pains
The Myanmar Rice Federation’s general-secretary has stressed a need for tangible rice policies to keep abreast with industries in neighbouring countries.
Pegu farmers injured in police crackdown
Three farmers are injured in Pegu where police broke up a protest site of about 100 locals who had been demanding the return of farmland they say was confiscated by…