Families and friends of those addicted to alcohol often suffer. Photo: Al-Anon Family Groups
27 February 2015
Helen May says it was after she was introduced to a local woman in Yangon struggling to...
Myanmar Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham (C) meets with Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha (R) at the government guest house in Bangkok on February 25, 2015. Photo: President's Office
27 February 2015
Myanmar Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and an accompanying delegation have just finished...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, October 16, 2014. Photo: Martial Trezzini/EPA
26 February 2015
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned that Myanmar “...
The Facebook post reportedly put up on the Myanmar Air Force Facebook page and then removed. Photo: Myanmar Air Force/Facebook
26 February 2015
Facebook users in Bangladesh have reacted angrily to the posting of a map on the Myanmar...
26 February 2015
How can journalists reconcile the need to share information with the danger that the news...
Soe Myint in Mizzima's Yangon office. Photo: Hong Sar
26 February 2015
Last week two seemingly unrelated events attracted the attention of this writer. The...
Gmail is now available in the Myanmar language, according to Google.
26 February 2015
Google said February 25 that Gmail is now available in the Myanmar language, marking the...
Allegations have been made that a 17-year-old boy was forced to join the military. Here, a boy wearing white shirt (R), who was discharged from the Myanmar army, walks past a security official as he leaves after the ceremony of handover for discharged minors to parents or guardians in Yangon, Myanmar, January 18, 2014. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
26 February 2015
Two men were forcibly recruited by the Myanmar military in Yangon recently when they went...
The Australian government has warned women that joining up with the Islamic State group is unlikely to be a "romantic adventure." UK police photo showing three schoolgirls at Gatwick Airport, England on February 17, 2015 who have been reported missing and are believed to be making their way to Syria to meet up with the Islamic State group. Photo: London Metropolitan Police/EPA
26 February 2015
A worrying number of Australian women are heading to Iraq and Syria to become so-called...
Beijing says it is not interfering in the conflict in Myanmar's northern Shan State. The Chinese border gate of Nansan, Yunnan, China on August 30, 2009. Photo: David and Jessie/Flickr
26 February 2015
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei says that China forbids any organization...
Convoys have come under attack. Victims of the conflict sit on board a rescue truck as they flee the Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 17, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
25 February 2015
Dozens of female prisoners were injured in a fierce firefight between rebels and soldiers...
25 February 2015
Progress on human rights “stalled” in Myanmar last year, Amnesty International has said...

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