Category: Burma

China urges Myanmar to act after workers raid factory

Chinese embassy to Myanmar lodged solemn representations to local authorities on Thursday after a Chinese factory was raided by striking workers, The Paper reported. A Chinese-invested garment factory in an industrial zone in Hlaingtharyar, a new satellite town in the north of Myanmar’s Yangon, was raided by employees Thursday.

Activists seek corporate help for Myanmar’s Rohingyas

Activists are asking a major corporate investor in Myanmar to speak out against the country’s treatment of its Rohingya minority. An advocacy group, known as #WeAreAllRohingyaNow, sent an open letter this week to food and hygiene conglomerate Unilever, which owns two factories near Yangon, the largest city in the country.

Suu Kyi urges Myanmar armed ethnic groups to sign cease-fire

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, standing by a portrait of her late father and national hero Gen. Aung San and the Panglong monument, delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of Union Day Sunday, Feb.12, 2017, in Panglong, Southern Shan State, over 800 kilometers northeast of Yangon, Myanmar.

Britain’s Flybe notes slow start to final quarter

Jan 30 Airline Flybe Group Plc said uncertain customer confidence and poor weather led to a slow start to the current quarter, after tough trading conditions and increased market capacity hit its fleet utilisation in the third quarter. However, the airline, which connects British regional airports to London and other European cities, said on Monday its third-quarter revenue grew, boosted by additional capacity in its network.

Myanmar ruling party mourns assassination of Suu Kyi adviser

In this Feb. 28, 2016, photo, Ko Ni, a legal adviser for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy and a prominent member of Myanmar’s Muslim minority, is photographed in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. A gunman killed a legal adviser for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, shooting the lawyer in the head at close range as he walked out of the Yangon airport, the government said.

Gunman assassinates key Muslim lawyer for Myanmar’s ruling party at airport

Myanmar Police stand guard at the forensic department of a hospital holding the body of Ko Ni, a prominent member of Myanmar’s Muslim minority and legal adviser for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy, in Yangon Sunday. A gunman killed a legal adviser for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy on Sunday, shooting the lawyer in the head at close range as he walked out of the Yangon airport, the government said.

China marks Lunar New Year with prayers, incense, fireworks

North Korean refugees and their family members bow to respect their ancestors in North Korea as they celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Millions of South Koreans visit their hometowns during the four-day holiday that began Friday.

Imagined Urban Futures of Rangoon

As a newcomer to the city earlier this year, I noticed that urban development and planning in Yangon was a topic that often came up in many discussions, be it with colleagues or during other informal encounters. The general sentiments among locals and foreigners were alike: the nearly undisputed consensus was that the old downtown should be preserved, that the traffic congestion and general infrastructure issues should be addressed, and that public space ought to be expanded.

Demonstration in Mandalay After Teacher’s Death

Some one hundred protestors led by the Myanmar Teachers’ Federation gathered in Mandalay on Sunday to demand the government investigate the murder of schoolteacher U Aung Zin Tun who was found dead in Hpakant Township, Kachin State on Wednesday. “Brutally killing a teacher is the worst thing one can do in this country,” said vice president of the MTF U Thuta.

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Burma is expected to see economic growth of 6.9 percent in 2017, down 1.5 points from a previous estimate, according to the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects report released earlier this month. The report said that real-term growth in 2016 was estimated to be 6.5 percent, down 1.3 percentage points from an earlier estimate in June last year, the Nikkei Asia Review reported.

Myanmar Muslims hope UN envoya s visit will bring change

Muslim villagers in western Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state said Sunday that they hope positive change will result from a U.N. envoy’s visit to the region, where soldiers are accused of widespread abuses against minority Muslims, including murder, rape and the burning of thousands of homes. U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Yanghee Lee concluded a three-day visit Sunday to probe the situation in northern Rakhine, where an army crackdown has driven an estimated 65,000 Muslim ethnic Rohingya to flee across the border to Bangladesh in the past three months.

Myanmar Arbitration & Myanmar Mediation for Trade & Investment in Myanmar – SIAC & SIMC Presents

SIAC & SIMC Singapore will present on “Arbitration & Alternate Dispute Resolution” during Myanmar Investment Conference organized by MiTA on 24Feb2017 in Yangon MiTA Myanmar Expos & Conferences are very good platforms for initiating and expanding trade & investment in Myanmar; organizer: MiTA “Myanmar Market Partner” YANGON & WASHINGTON DC, MYANMAR & USA, January 15, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Arbitration in Myanmar , Mediation in Myanmar , Myanmar Arbitration Law , Arbitration in Singapore, Mediation in Singapore, SIAC & SIMC Singapore The Singapore International Mediation Centre & Singapore International Arbitration Centre will present on “Arbitration & Alternate Dispute Resolution” on 24 Feb 2017 at Tatmadaw Hall in Yangon during Myanmar Investment Conference organized by MiTA “Myanmar Market Partner”.

Public Consultations Precede National Level Dialogue in Dawei

Two days of discussions are being held at the district level from Jan. 5-6, with government officials, political parties, Karen and Mon ethnic armed organizations and civil society groups participating. In late December, the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee , led by State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, formed regional political dialogue monitoring committees for Karen State in southeast, Tenasserim Division in the south and in Naypyidaw.

The Rohingya Identity: An essay in political reality

THE recent daring attacks on Border Guard Police posts in Rakhine State in Burma by a poorly armed, but very determined and apparently well trained group of young guerrilla fighters seeking justice for the long victimised and persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority should make us pause for thought about the identity of this minority. On Oct 25, 1948, the Muslim Council of North Arakan declared in an address to Prime Minister U Nu on the occasion of his visit to Maungdaw: “We are dejected to mention that in this country we have been wrongly taken as part of the race generally known as Chittagonians and as foreigners.

Suu Kyi has to rein in the violence

The Myanmar government and Association of Southeast Asian Nations are struggling to find adequate solutions to the Rohingya crisis, but mere diplomacy is unlikely to help the benighted Muslim population concentrated in northeastern Rakhine state. The United Nations’ Human Rights Office claims to be receiving daily reports of rapes, murders and other horrors.