A “People’s Court” in Japan passed its verdict on Monday to put the Burmese military regime on trial at the International Criminal Court for its crimes against ...

One of China’s biggest arms makers signed a contract with a Burmese junta-controlled entity this month involving “co-operation” in a Monywa copper mine ...

Burmese activists in Australia are not expecting any big foreign policy shifts on Burma, they said, after Julia Gillard was sworn in as the country’s first woman prime minister, ...

Thirty-one Rohingya refugees in a detention centre in Darwin, Australia are entering the 10^th day of a hunger strike today in protest at the Australian government’s delay ...

Migrant workers in Thailand are living in fear amid a police crackdown over the past week that has led to the arrests of more than a thousand migrants ... 

The Ten Alliances of Burma, a movement for democracy and ethnic rights, joined the people around the world in marking opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65^th birthday, ...

Burma’s richest business tycoon and close ally of despotic ruler Senior General Than Shwe, went to China early this month to broker a deal enabling the regime ...

Two young Burmese migrant workers riding a motorcycle to buy phone cards were killed in a highway accident in Selangor, Malaysia last weekend, ...

Migrant workers and labour activists have welcomed the Thai governments’ decision to set up a nationality verification centre for Burmese workers in Ranong ...

More than 50 Arakanese held a protest outside the UN refugee organisation’s office in the Malaysian capital on Monday, alleging its discrimination ...