FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Junta arrests former British ambassador and renowned painter. Vicky Bowman, a former British Ambassador to Burma, was arrested by the military...

Canada, the UK, and the US have imposed new sanctions on individuals and groups related to or alleged to be arming the Burma Air...

The US government is conducting an intensive examination of alleged atrocities against Rohingya Muslims, documenting alleged atrocities in an investigation that could be used to prosecute Burma’s military for crimes against humanity, said US officials.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country’s minority Rohingya Muslims, the museum said on Wednesday.

The biggest US force in years joined an annual military exercise in Thailand on Tuesday despite controversy over the Thai junta’s invitation to neighbouring Burma’s army, which has been accused of ethnic cleansing.

Dozens of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists have joined a growing chorus of voices demanding the release of two Reuters reporters detained by Burmese authorities earlier this month, calling their arrests “an outrageous attack on media freedom.”