Rozeya teaches a classroom of students at a middle school in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The 21- year-old battled her conservative society, poverty and sceptical teachers to get an education.
(MIzzima) – The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has described the verdict of a court in Rangoon, sentencing a torture victim to death for his purported role in a bombing, as “farcical" and a "cut-and-paste” job, and has called for his release through the intervention of outside agencies. The sentence will be appealed.
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union on Thursday took to the streets demanding that the government as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) take immediate steps to address the “pathetic and abysmal” condition of Myanmar refugees in Delhi.
EU Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs (4th R) and German Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Niebel (C) pose for a photograph with Burma’s parliament speaker Thura Shwe Mann in Naypyitaw on 13 February 2012. (Reuters)
NAYPYI TAW, 9 May-President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein received a delegation led by Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Radoslaw Sikorski at Credentials Hall of the Presidential Palace here this afternoon.