Journalist & photographer
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23124 LAIZA, Kachin State — After 10 minutes talking about her arrest and detention by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Ma Su Su wells up and a single tear dissolves…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23115 LAJA YANG, Kachin State—The dry daytime heat succumbs to a balmy dusk cool, setting the tree-lined valley in a soft yet vivid glow. Aside from the occasional truck or…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23098 MAI JA YANG, Kachin State—“It is just six miles to the front line from here,” says Nang Tung Maran, vice-principal of the Mai Ja Yang high school, sipping a…
LAIZA -- The Burmese army is using underage boys for forced labour and is coercing porters to fight on the front line against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), according to…
It may take more than a lifting of sanctions to revive Myanmar’s isolated economy. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0217/Business-in-Burma-Show-me-the-money-but-only-if-it-s-crisp YANGON, MYANMAR – As Myanmar’s reform-inclined government undertakes a political opening, Western businesses are watching…
http://tinyurl.com/748grxu YANGON – Speaking in Bangkok prior to his visit to Burma in January, US Senator John McCain described the array of recent reforms undertaken by the country’s government as…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23037 BANGKOK — The chairman of Burma’s National Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday that it was premature for the newly established body to investigate allegations of human rights abuses…
Four people are hurt in the incident a day after Israelis were targeted elsewhere. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/02/thai-police-explosions-bangkok-iranian-suspect.html REPORTING FROM BANGKOK AND NEW DELHI — Three explosions rattled downtown Bangkok on Tuesday, a…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23023 Party spokesman Khin Maung Swe says his party was right to run in the 2010 election, but still wants a rapprochement with the NLD. He says that the parties…
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0211/Myanmar-s-former-political-prisoners-weigh-next-steps-ahead-of-polls http://www.rte.ie/news/player/world-report/2012/0212/ – radio report YANGON – “I felt nothing, really, when I was told I was to be released,” says Mya Aye, one of Myanmar’s best-known political prisoners, who…