8 Feb 2013 Ethnic Shan groups in Burma were allowed to openly celebrate Shan State National Day on Thursday for the first time in two decades […]

  8 Feb 2013 THAYET TOWNSHIP, Magway Division — In the scorching midday heat of central Burma, dozens of families are hard at work. In the […]

8 Feb 2013 SINGAPORE — Under increasing international criticism over the civil war in Kachin State, Burma’s government has sought to refocus attention on the reformist […]

8 Feb 2013 BANGKOK — Nearly 6,000 Rohingya Muslims have arrived in Thailand since October, when sectarian violence flared in Burma’s western Arakan State and displaced […]

8 Feb 2013 Buddhist novice U Thazana, 14, who was seriously injured during the Myanmar riot police’s violent crackdown on Latpadaung protesters, is still receiving medical […]