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Thursday, October 6, 2011 |
| Would floating the Burmese currency help to revive the country’s economy? Some experts say it might help, but it’s only a start. |
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Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| The recent rise of the kyat has raised the possibility of a break with Burma's decades-old fixed exchange rate policy. But will this be enough to save the country's foundering economy? |
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi has issued a personal appeal to all concerned parties to review the social and environmental impact of the dam project on the Irrawaddy River in Kachin State. |
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 |
| Labor Minister Aung Kyi urged Aung San Suu Kyi to legally register the National League for Democracy as a political party when they met on Monday, according to sources. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 |
| With the Burmese government having failed to reach a ceasefire agreement with the Kachin Independence Army and now attacking the Shan State Army, civil war may be on the horizon. |
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Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| The documentary “Burma Soldier” reveals how many of the soldiers in the Burmese army, which is infamous for its abuses, are themselves the victims of a brutal regime. |
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Saturday, February 12, 2011 |
| A British filmmaker releases a documentary that tells the story of Zarganar, Burma's best-known comedian, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for criticizing the military regime while delivering aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. |
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Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| Cooperative Bank, Burma's second-largest privately owned financial institution, appears to be close to collapse due to a business dispute involving a top general and a regime crony. |
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
| Plans to build a massive new port and special economic zone in Tavoy, or Dawei, in southern Burma will likely come at an enormous cost to local people and the environment, say experts. |
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Thursday, December 30, 2010 |
| The past year has been an eventful one in Burma, with an election, simmering ethnic tensions boiling over and the ruling regime raking in more than enough money to ensure its hold on power. |
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Friday, December 17, 2010 |
| Burma's censors have been ordered to block efforts by privately owned publications to increase their coverage of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's activities. |
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Saturday, December 4, 2010 |
| Part of a silent video clip of Burma's former spy chief that first appeared online one week ago has begun circulating with its original audio intact. |
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
| In the seven years that she has been under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi has missed many developments in modern communications. Now she's eagerly catching up with the rest of the world. |
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| The junta chief has stage-managed the election to ensure his regime remains in power and neutralized regional criticism in the process, reports YENI. |
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
| While the Burmese junta's border closure inflicts pain on both sides of the border, reports are circulating that the regime's real intention is to pressure the DKBA to join its border guard force. |
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Saturday, April 10, 2010 |
| Thingyan, Burma's traditional New Year's water festival, starts on Wednesday, and Than Shwe's grandson and his friends look set to flaunt the rules—and their status. |
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Monday, January 11, 2010 |
| While international aid agencies struggle to assist Burma's rice farmers to recover from the 2008 cyclone disaster, a leading Burmese economist has called for the restoration of the country as “major rice exporter” in order to stave off poverty. |
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Thursday, October 1, 2009 |
| Resettlement programs offer tens of thousands of refugees the chance of a new life in the West, writes YENI. |
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Thursday, October 1, 2009 |
| YENI finds that even after years of living on the Thai-Burmese border, most Karen refugees hope to return to Burma one day. |
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Friday, August 14, 2009 |
| Junta led by Snr-Gen Than Shwe is set to meet an American senator at Naypyidaw this weekend just days after Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted and returned to house arrest. |
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