China says more than 20,000 from Burma seek refuge across border
More than 20,000 people from northern Shan State have flooded into border camps in neighboring China, seeking refuge from bitter fighting between ethnic groups and security...
Questions Raised Over Land Ownership and Development in Ngapali Mangroves
Arakan State parliamentarian U Naing Kyway Aye told The Irrawaddy that the Rangoon-based owner of a local Thandwe hotel purchased land with the intent to develop it without...
Ministry to open workplace nursery schools Nationwide
Burma’s Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement is taking steps to open workplace nursery schools across the country for the convenience of working parents. Minister...
Kokang Rebels Reportedly Attack Laukkai Hotel
Five police and five civilians were killed in an attack by members of the ethnic Kokang Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in Laukkai—the administrative capital of...
Bangladesh Calls for Efforts to Curb Influx of Refugees
Bangladesh’s foreign minister called on the international community on Monday to address Burma’s treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority, tens of thousands of whom have fled in...
Shwedagon Pagoda as an addition to a UNESCO
RANGOON — Shwedagon Pagoda will be discussed as an addition to a UNESCO tentative list that will inform future World Heritage nominations, according to a UNESCO Rangoon...