Save the Children Ready to Respond as Tropical Cyclone Mahasen Heads Towards Bangladesh and Myanmar
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-19 13:54:32 -0700 | travel-news
Sunday 19th May, 2013 Save the Children's field offices are on high alert as Tropical Cyclone Mahasen crosses the Bay of Bengal towards the Bangladesh-Myanmar coast. The Category 1 storm packs wind of up to 120 km/h and is expected...
Local flight landing in Myanmar overshoots runway 2 passengers injured
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-16 11:41:28 -0700 | travel-news
Two passengers were injured when a plane landing in Myanmar shot past the end of the runway when its brakes failed Thursday. The Facebook page of Myanmar state radio and TV reported that a Fokker plane of Myanma Airways carrying...
Myanmar locals on alert for Mahasen Cyclone
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-24 06:45:59 -0700 | travel-news
Rakhine people in Western Myanmar are on alert for Mahasen Cyclone in Bay of Bengal, which is expected to pass through Rakhine State (North) and Bangladesh on coming Wednesday or Thursday. The tropical storm, which started as an atmospheric depression...
Clashes likely to delay Myanmar-China pipeline start-up: official
Source: Reuters
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-24 00:06:59 -0700 | travel-news
Topics The construction site for a pipeline, which will transport Myanmar's gas into China, is seen outside of the northeastern town of Pyin Oo Lwin January 23, 2012. Security concerns will likely delay the first shipments of gas and oil...
Myanmar president vows to protect Muslim rights
Source: Fox News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-24 05:20:31 -0700 | travel-news
Myanmar Myanmar President Thein Sein has vowed that his government will do everything it can to protect the rights of Muslims living in the predominantly Buddhist nation. Thein Sein made the promise Monday amid fears that sectarian violence between...
Police arrest two in new anti-Muslim unrest in Myanmar
Source: Qatar English Daily
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-04 00:38:25 -0700 | travel-news
Two Buddhists have been arrested after Muslim shops were destroyed in northern Kachin State, police said Saturday, in a new outbreak of religious violence. Myanmar is in the grip of acute religious tension after a deadly wave of unrest in...
World Briefing | Asia: Myanmar: Order Restored After Sectarian Violence
Source: Newyork Times
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-24 08:36:46 -0700 | travel-news
May 1, 2013 Hundreds of police officers and troops restored order in central Myanmar on Wednesday after a new outbreak of sectarian violence in which one man was killed. During the unrest, Buddhist mobs destroyed property owned by Muslims after...
Mobs in Malaysia torch Rohingya homes
Source: Al Jazeera English
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-01 02:43:22 -0700 | travel-news
07 At least 10 people have been injured in central Myanmar after mobs set fire to hundreds of homes and overrun two mosques. Tuesday's flare-up in Okkan, 110 kilometres north of Yangon, is the latest anti-Muslim violence to shake the...
Burma sectarian clashes erupt in Oakkan town
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-30 15:30:32 -0700 | travel-news
Tuesday 30th April, 2013 Burma , police said, the closest a series of sectarian clashes pitting Muslims against majority Buddhists has come to the commercial capital, Rangoon.Gangs armed with bricks smashed the mosque's windows and looted dozens of shops after...
Myanmar prepares for peace
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-29 02:05:21 -0700 | travel-news
For more than 60 years, Kayin State, also known as Karen State in southeast Myanmar has been stage to a violent conflict which has caused hundreds of thousands to flee their homes but recently positive steps have been made toward...
EDITORIAL: Chicago sinkhole could be fishing hole
Source: Courier & Press
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-21 22:59:11 -0700 | travel-news
Chicago sinkhole could be fishing hole Posted April 22, 2013 at 12:01 a.m. Florida has sinkholes that materialize suddenly, swallowing cars, houses and, most recently and tragically, a person. The rest of the country regards these and other natural disasters...
The Irrawaddy Waiting for solace
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-21 12:06:47 -0700 | travel-news
Sunday 21st April, 2013 But despite the restricted access to Burmese government-run camps, The Irrawaddy managed to visit an unofficial camp about 20 km from Meikhtila. The camp, which The Irrawaddy gained access to, is run by a businessman from...
Myanmars Alarming Civil Unrest
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-18 02:43:33 -0700 | travel-news
Myanmar's Alarming Civil Unrest ISN Thursday 18th April, 2013 Recent unrest between Myanmar's Burmese majority and its Muslim communities is only the latest instance of the inter-ethnic violence plaguing the country. Yet, with Myanmar at a critical transition point, Joshua...
Myanmar peace hinges on powerful interests experts say
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-15 22:34:01 -0700 | travel-news
Myanmar must negotiate a web of vested interests if it is to end conflict with rebels in its far north and bring a halt to civil wars that have wracked the country for decades, experts say.Bloody unrest in Kachin State...
Time to enforce rule of law in Myanmar
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-14 05:31:10 -0700 | travel-news
It was a very sad day for Myanmar. As challenges to the military power guaranteed in the 2008 army constitution gather momentum, the ruling military escalates violent conflicts in the ethnic territories, and stirs up race riots against Muslims once...
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