A Fight to Control Chainsaws in Burma
SAGAING, Burma — Pyar Aung still remembers the first time he saw a chainsaw. It was a German-made number being used by one of the logging companies operating in the forest around...
A Brighter Future for Burma’s Juvenile Offenders?
RANGOON — As he waits impatiently for his time in custody to end, the first thing 16-year-old Zaw Thein Htike does every morning is count the days. There are almost four hundred...
Advocates: NLD Govt Has Failed to Advance Press Freedom
RANGOON — The National League for Democracy (NLD) government failed to make progress in increasing press freedom during its first year in office, local lobbyists and rights...
Burmese Migrants Living in Garbage Dump on Thai Border
MAE SOT, Thailand — When entering the landfill on the outskirts of Mae Sot on Thailand’s border with Burma, flies buzz chaotically around the waste, which ranges from metal...
Hearing Burma: Teaching Artistry in Rangoon
RANGOON — Community music center Gitameit’s brand new three-story building has just been finished. It sits with fresh concrete and sparkling glass right beside the center’s old,...
Workers Replaced by Automation Demand Jobs Back
Despite negotiations on Tuesday, management and employees of the Myanmar Mayson Industries Co. Ltd. did not reach an agreement regarding a massive dismissal of factory workers....