Meth-making – The Edge Review
Myanmar at the heart of Asia’s synthetic drugs boom www.theedgereview.com – app/digital magazine available here (subscription required) YANGON – Located...
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Making it count – The Edge Review
Myanmar kicks off its first census in more than three decades but Rohingya left off list www.theedgereview.com – digital/app download...
Rose-tinted history at Rangoon’s drugs elimination museum – The Irrawaddy
RANGOON — If you’ve been to the Ho Chi Minh Museum and nearby mausoleum in Hanoi, Rangoon’s Drugs Elimination Museum has a familiar feel during Burma’s monsoon season, when a humid grayness hangs over the three-story building—a sweatier Rangoon version of Hanoi’s hoary and drizzly December days.
New anti-Muslim violence in Burma – RTÉ World Report
http://www.rte.ie/news/player/world-report/2013/0602/ – radio story here. Script below. It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this. Two years into what are...
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi speaks out – The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2013/0531/Myanmar-s-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-speaks-out YANGON, MYANMAR – In an unexpected turnaround Aung San Suu Kyi openly criticized aspects of the government’s policies...
Burma pivotal as amphetamine use soars – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22072 BANGKOK – Burma’s increasing amphetamine production is contributing to the worldwide rise of synthetic drugs use, with the...
A Grim Trade: Burma’s ethnic women trafficked to China – The Irrawaddy
http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21486 BANGKOK – A mix of unscrupulous traffickers, Burma’s economic decline and militarisation, and a shortage of males caused...
After an earthquake, confusion over storms in Burma – RTÉ World Report
http://www.rte.ie/news/player.html?worldreport#programme=World%20Report “We all ran outside, our windows fell in, the walls are cracked, most of the buildings in the...
Sri Lanka Connection Key as Ethnic War Fears Grow – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20209 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\11\30\story_30-11-2010_pg14_10 With one thousand refugees fleeing fighting in eastern Burma into Thailand’s Tak Province over the weekend, fears...
Drug traffickers standing for election – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19582 Shan and Kachin researchers say that Burma’s ruling junta are backing candidates for the Nov. 7 election who...