Simon Roughneen on Burma/Myanmar

The General’s Election in Burma – Sunday Business Post

http://www.sbpost.ie/news/world/little-hope-for-change-in-burma-elections-52677.html Simon Roughneen in Bangkok – Today Burma goes to polls in what most observers are dismissing as a...

Clues to a post-election Burma? – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19633 The run-up to Burma’s Nov. 7 election has left observers and policy wonks wondering whether the vote will...

Thailand to Send Refugees and Opposition Back to Burma? – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19612 Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya is working on a plan to repatriate Burmese refugees and intellectuals after the...

Businessman’s Son Takes Sanctions Case to Court of Justice – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19591&Submit=Submit Pye Phyo Tay Za, the son of Tay Za, a businessman with close links to Burma’s military government,...

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...

Standing out in the crowd – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19519 BANGKOK—Somber, gloomy, provocative are probably overused words when it comes to talking about art, but these adjectives aptly...

US disengages from Burma – ISN

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=120399 When the US lined up as the fifth country to back a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes...

US’s Burma Policy Seems to be Floundering- The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/opinion_story.php?art_id=19039 Despite the US Senate vote to renew sanctions, America’s Burma policy seems to be floundering as Washington tries...

Young blood – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18950 BANGKOK—The number of child soldiers in Burma is impossible to verify and recruitment appears to be ongoing in...

Thai-Burma Relations through the Thaksin Prism – The Irrawaddy

http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=18672 BANGKOK — After the crackdown on the two-month-long Redshirt protest in Bangkok, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra remains a...