Thein Sein warns of use of force if needed
Source: United Press International
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-29 10:30:46 -0700 | political-news
Myanmar President Thein Sein warned he "will not hesitate to use force as a last resort" to put down the Buddhist-Muslim violence in his country. Blaming last week's riots in central Myanmar, which have claimed at least 40 lives and...
Clashes likely to delay Myanmar-China pipeline start-up: official
Source: Reuters
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-11 02:57:09 -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 clashes 'like a killing field'
Source: United Press International
Meiktila :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-22 15:14:12 -0700 | political-news
Myanmar President Thein Sein orderedd a state of emergency Friday after at least 20 people, including children, died in clashes between Buddhists and Muslims...The violence began Wednesday after a customer and the Muslim owner of a shop had an argument...
Buddhists Vandalize More Mosques in Meiktilar, Mandalay
Source: Salem News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-21 13:03:20 -0700 | political-news
There is no stability of racism under the Act-144 imposed by the Burmese government authority. The Buddhist racists continued vandalizing Muslim's ancient Mosques and Religious schools and also family houses, one after another. Muslim families are leaving and fleeing to...
Eleven Media Group: Google launches Myanmar sub-domain ahead of top executive's visit
Source: BurmaNet
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-22 03:50:13 -0700 | technology-news
Myanmar's enthusiastic techies are hoping that tomorrow's visit by Google's executive president will help accelerate plans to develop the Internet here, organisers of the forum Eric Schmidt is to address tomorrow said. Schmidt is scheduled to deliver a speech and...
World Briefing | Asia: Myanmar: Order Restored After Sectarian Violence
Source: Newyork Times
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-01 20:52:49 -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...
Two dead, mosques destroyed in Myanmar unrest–police
Source: Inquirer.net
Meiktila :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-21 08:24:29 -0700 | political-news
Buddhist monk were killed and at least three mosques were destroyed after riots broke out in a town in central Myanmar, police said Thursday. Around 200 people fought in the streets after an argument in a Muslim-owned gold shop turned...
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...
New video reveals Burmese violence
Source: BBC South Asia
Meiktila :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-22 05:58:39 -0700 | political-news
The BBC has obtained police video showing officers standing by while Buddhist rioters attacked minority Muslims in the town of Meiktila. The footage shows a mob destroying a Muslim gold shop and then setting fire to houses...It was filmed last...
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation held a meeting in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss the issue of ...
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-15 09:03:09 -0700 | political-news
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation held a meeting in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss the issue of violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held a meeting in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss the issue...
Myanmar locals on alert for Mahasen Cyclone
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-13 10:18:45 -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...
First Myanmar partners US communications firm Avaya
Source: Myanmar News
Pyinmana :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-25 05:30:54 -0700 | technology-news
Avaya, said that the firm expected its technology can help improve business in Myanmar, and noted that he considered major growth markets in the banking and hospitality sectors. Erva Houn Heng, the executive chairman of First Group (Holdings) Ltd, said...
EU lifts sanctions on Myanmar
Source: Turkish Press
Arakan :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-24 19:31:59 -0700 | travel-news
EU's decision came at a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday. The foreign ministers took the decision to end sanctions on Myanmar by considering developments towards democracy in Myanmar, strong parliament, freedom of expression, fight against corruption and...
Home truths about those Sanctions
Source: Myanmar News
Pyinmana :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-29 15:26:19 -0700 | political-news
I think rather that they are seeking the continuance of their suspension. The sanctions were indeed all temporarily lifted in April last year, apart from the arms embargo and the restoration of benefits under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP),...
43 dead scores injured as Myanmar govt shifts blame for communal clashes
Source: Myanmar News
Meiktila :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-31 09:32:18 -0700 | political-news
Saturday 30th March, 2013 Myanmar's government on Saturday rejected remarks by a U.N. human rights official suggesting that the authorities bear some blame for recent mob attacks by Buddhists on minority Muslims that killed dozens of people.The U.N. official, Tomas...
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