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.

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.
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…
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.
The Myanmar Rice Federation’s general-secretary has stressed a need for tangible rice policies to keep abreast with industries in neighbouring countries.
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…