The passport office in Rangoon, the former capital of Burma, is full of people waiting to process documents and many residents....

The human rights of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have to be protected in a sympathetic manner until problems....

He leans back in his chair with a book on his lap and lights a cigarette; his crossed leg starts to jiggle. He is a tall man....

The high yielding variety of tea (HYV), known as BT-2, is being cultivated for the first time in vast areas of the Bandarban....

There are just over 80 days for approved political parties to contest the upcoming election according to the Junta’s unofficial announcement that the vote could take place in the month of October...

Burma’s military junta is enjoying being a media celebrity in the build-up to elections it previously announced would be held at the end of this year in an attempt to....

Young Thu Zin Oo made his daily trip across the Pun Hlaing River from his village in North Okkalapa Township to the Sinmalite dock in Rangoon...

Thiha Yarzar was housed in cell 51, in a cell range of 60 white concrete cells with iron bars for a door. There was nothing inside but a thin bamboo mat for a bed and two ceramic bowls for a toilet...

By August 8, 1988, Thiha Yarzar, the twenty-three year old political activist and student leader had been appointed secretary of the National Student Union. On that infamous day the people of Burma confronted the ruling military ...

Late in the morning on May 27, 2009, a shouting throng raised their voices at the gate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees compound in Mae Sot, Thailand...