UK parliamentarians held a discussion in London’s Westminster Hall about the ongoing persecution faced by the Rohingyas and other ethnic minorities in Burma.

BUSINESS in BURMA this week: Gold drops in price; Singaporean oil firm expands drilling in Magwe; Japan's Komatsu contracted for power plant; corn production expected to pick up; foreign banks ready to launch.

Ninety-seven civil society organisations, including several women's rights groups, spoke out on Tuesday against Burma’s proposed Interfaith Marriage Act.

Two Reuters reporters were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reports on the trafficking of Rohingya Muslims, days before two Thailand-based journalists will appear in court, where they may face up to seven years in jail for republishing one paragraph of the award-winning work.

The international community has again issued urgent pleas to the Burmese government to restore humanitarian access in Arakan State, where critical health and supply services were largely terminated in late March.

The European Union and the United States expressed “deep concern” on Thursday evening after mobs of Arakanese Buddhists attacked homes and offices of humanitarian aid workers in the capital of Burma’s western Arakan State.