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Will Thailand Send 140,000 Refugees Back to Burma?
More than 140,000 refugees will be forced back to war-torn Burma unless Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva shows a rare bit of backbone in dealing...
Is Burma's Strongman Really Retiring?
More often than not, dictators, like mafia dons, can never retire. It's a rare strongman who can avoid an assassination, coup or revolution and fade into the...
News Trickles Out of Burma's Fishing Disaster
The earthquake that hit Burma last week wasn't the deadliest disaster to strike the Southeast Asian nation this month. While the 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the...
At Least 120 Dead in Burma Earthquake
Aid workers said on March 25 that at least 120 people were killed by the magnitude-6.8 earthquake that hit the day before, rattling high-rises in Bangkok and...
Why Did Burma's Leader Appear on TV in Women's Clothes?
"Clarification appended: March 1, 2011" General Than Shwe of Burma, the dour and taciturn leader of one of the world's most repressive military regimes,...
Was Burma's Opening of Parliament Significant?
Deep in the heart of Burma's remote new capital Naypyidaw, a most unusual event occurred on the morning of January 31. More then 600 legislators gathered in a...
Burma's Release of Suu Kyi Eases Pressure for Sanctions
It was one of the most exhilarating moments of 2010: On Nov. 13, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi emerged after seven years of house arrest in Rangoon...
Influential Magazine Closes, Deepening Burma's Isolation
What one of the world's most repressive dictatorships could not silence, the global recession and shifting donor policies finally did. The Irrawaddy, considered...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Burma's First Lady of Freedom
The special branch had chased us across the city for hours, through the haunted, betel-nut-stained streets of old Rangoon, past street-side tailors hunched over...
Can the Young Bring Change to Burma?
MC J-Me is in the house. More specifically, he is in a house of worship — crumbling St. Theresa Catholic Church in downtown Rangoon — bleary-eyed and...
India and Burma Get Down to Business
In Amitav Ghosh's novel The Glass Palace, the connection between India and Burma, two countries with a long shared colonial history, is romantic: a...
Is Burma's Junta Trying to Join the Nuclear Club?
"Updated on July 10, 2010." It may seem counterintuitive, but Burma has a lot going for it. Blessed with abundant natural resources, the nation is home to...
Chevron, Total Accused of Human-Rights Abuses in Burma
To the list of Big Oil companies with p.r. problems add two more: Chevron and French energy giant Total. In a report published on Monday, the NGO EarthRights...
Burma's Prison Release: Reading Between the Lines
The release from detention of a close aide to Burmese democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday could presage the same for the Nobel Peace Prize winner...
Asia Buzz: Paper Wars
Thursday, May. 24, 2001 I have to hand it to Ross Dunkley. A little over a year ago, the Australian businessman set up shop in Rangoon and started publishing a...
BURMA: Burma Go Bragh
Gunboats prowled along the Arakan coast and up the muddy Irrawaddy. Mechanized units rumbled over Burma's uneven dirt roads. At key airdromes R.A.F. transports...
China Emerging as New Force in Drone Warfare
(BEIJING) — Determined to kill or capture a murderous Mekong River drug lord, China's security forces considered a tactic they'd never tried before: calling a...
Must-Reads from Around the World
Cellphones are polluting the world and the Irish coalition government is expected to sign off on draft legislation that will lead to limited abortion in the...
Can Burma Avoid the Curse of Sex Tourism?
On a recent evening at a popular beer hall in Rangoon, two dozen women wearing skimpy dresses and hair extensions swayed mechanically on a stage and took turns...
