By Daily times BANGKOK : The head of Myanmar’s fledgling human rights panel on Tuesday said it would not launch probes into allegations of abuses in ethnic conflict areas to encourage regime efforts to seek an end to fighting.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on China to see the country as more than just a place for Chinese companies to do business in a magazine interview published Monday, and said Myanmar should work in the future to forge better ties with both Beijing and Washington.
Irrawaddy News German Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Dirk Niebel, left, meets Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon on Tuesday. (Photo: The Irrawaddy Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has asked Western powers to observe if April's by-elections are free and fair before deciding whether to lift sanctions on Burma. The Nobel Laureate made the remarks in a press conference with German Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Dirk Niebel in Rangoon on Tuesday.
Kaladan News Chittagong, Bangladesh: Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) President Maung Tun Khin (aka) Ziaul Gaffar highlighted untold suffering Rohingya people’s situation in Norwegian Parliament, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign affairs and Human Rights and Human Wrongs Documentary Film Festival in Oslo on February 9, according to Ahmed Hussein Jarmal, General Secretary, BROUK.
Kaladan News Ukhiya, Bangladesh : Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is giving polio with albendazole tablets to the children in the Kutupalong makeshift camp from today February 11 , said a refugee from the camp. “Polio is given under 5 year children and albendazole tablets are given Children from 2- 5 year only.”
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ARAKAN (12 February 2012) Statement of ARNO on the 65th Anniversary of the Burma Union Day On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Union Day Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) states as follows:
By Mizzima News ( Mizzima ) – Maung Tun Khin (aka) Ziaul Gaffar, the president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, visited with Norwegian officials in Oslo recently, where he met with the former prime minister.