Al Jazeera English
| Mar 20, 2013
Burma hosts the South East Asian Games this year but while the event is seen as a big step in the country's opening up, some nations aren't happy about its decision to dump sports like badminton in favor of native ones like Chinlone -- a tradition...
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MBC
| Feb 11, 2013
Foreign direct investment, primarily from China and South Korea, has flooded Myanmar since the country began to open up and enact broad reforms two years ago. South Korean broadcaster MBC reports that this is largely due to low labor costs and has...
Channel 4 News
| Feb 3, 2013
Several groups of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are making desperate attempts to escape to neighboring Thailand in cramped boats with little food or water. Persecuted in their home country, Rohingya refugees hopeful for an answer to their plight a...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 10, 2013
Far from the reforms taking place in the capital, Myanmar's military is engaged in a fierce offensive against ethnic Kachin rebels. a coalition of other minority groups and rebel armies expressed support for the Kachin Independence Army after a su...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 18, 2012
A feisty surfer girl defies convention on Cox's Bazaar beach in Bangladesh. People call her a "whore" for taking to the waves, even though she's covered from neck to foot. "I feel free in the water," says Nassima Atker, a Rohinga refugee from...
LinkAsia
| Nov 26, 2012
The Southeast Asian nations most important to the US strategy of containment towards China have been dubbed "swing states." LinkAsia speaks with Daljit Singh of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies about the effectiveness of Obama's China cont...
LinkAsia
| Nov 21, 2012
US President Barack Obama's historic visit to Myanmar drew jubilant crowds. But as contributor Kenneth Wong reports from Rangoon, many there believe that further change and reforms must be driven by the efforts of Burmese themselves.
LinkAsia
| Nov 19, 2012
LinkAsia contributor Kenneth Wong reports from the streets of Rangoon on Burmese reactions to US President Barack Obama's historic visit. People's responses vary, from optimism that Obama's visit would make a concrete difference in people's lives,...
telegraphtv
| Nov 19, 2012
In the first visit ever of a US president to Myanmar, Barack Obama praised opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as an "icon of democracy," but also called for continued reforms in the nation. US critics are annoyed that Obama's not at home dealing w...
Euronews
| Nov 18, 2012
President Barack Obama began a historic three country Asian tour with his first stop in Thailand, where he was welcomed by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok. Obama is touring the Pacific region in a clear message that he intends to shi...
— Apr 1, 2012 at 09:20 am
...he said. But “the future is brighter than ever,” he said. Outside Myanmar, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize who...
— Apr 2, 2012 at 10:41 pm
— Aug 5, 2012 at 05:29 pm
...the 8th century. The protestors have urged the Pakistani government to summon Myanmarese envoy to Islamabad over the massacre of Muslims in the ...
Burma, also known as Myanmar, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia bordered by China, Thailand, India, Laos and Bangladesh. One-third of Burma's total perimeter of 1,930 kilometres forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Its population of over 60 million makes it the world's 24th most populous country and, at 676,578 km, it is the world's 40th largest country and the second largest in Southeast Asia.
The country has been under military control since a coup d'état in 1962. During this time, the United Nations and several other organizations have reported consistent and systematic human rights violations in the country, including genocide, the use of child soldiers, systematic rape, child labour, slavery, human trafficking and a lack of freedom of speech. Since the military began relinquishing more of its control over the government, however – coupled with its release in 2011 of Burma's most prominent human rights activist, Aung San Suu Kyi – the country's foreign relationships have improved rapidly, especially with major powers such as the European Union, Japan, and the United States. Trade and other sanctions, for example, imposed by the European Union and the United States, have now been eased.
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