From May 30 to June 2, the US Department of Defense (DOD), in coordination with the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART), flew 20 C-130 ...
Aug 28, 2008 ... A United Nations-led effort to push political reform in military-ruled Burma plunged to a humiliating low on the weekend, raising questions ...
In September 2005, the global law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary published “Threat to the Peace: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in Burma”, ...
Welcome. Burma Humanitarian Mission is an all-volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to address the humanitarian and healthcare crisis in Burma. ...
AFP - Myanmar's most famous comedian was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison, in the latest and most high-profile case of citizens given long jail terms by the internationally-reviled military regime.
AFP - The Thai general who led a 2006 coup against former premier Thaksin Shinawatra said Friday he expected anti-government protests planned for the weekend to pass off without violence.
AP - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's plane made an emergency landing in Japan on Friday after her husband fell ill on board, airport police said.
AP - Ukraine's president on Friday accused the prime minister of saddling the country with a huge debt to Russia and said her government must urgently repay $2.4 billion owed for gas imports.
AFP - Indonesia's billionaire Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie will leave the cabinet next year, a spokesman said Friday, as the global economic crisis continued to batter his business empire.
Reuters - Financial reforms could still help India's economy grow 7.5-8.0 percent this fiscal year but with a sharp global downturn, monetary policy must shift further in favour of supporting growth, a top economic adviser said.
AP - Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan's extraordinary but relatively unknown history of Christian persecution is finally receiving recognition in a beatification of 188 martyrs.
Australian author David Malouf has been awarded the $110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award for his work The Complete Stories. It is the richest literary prize in Australia and is awarded each year to a work which is written by an Asian or Australian ...
Dell has posted strong revenue and profit growth in Asia, even as the company saw its global revenue and profits decline in its third quarter, which ended October 31. Encouraged by the growth in the region, the company is planning more investments in ...
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