Tag: Myanmar

The pope asked the people to pray that the conflict will end soon and that “a new time of forgiveness, love, and peace will begin”

Myanmar has been in turmoil since Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government was toppled in a military coup almost two years ago

The reopened Myawaddy-Mae Sot Friendship Bridge will boost trade between the Southeast Asian neighbors

HRW called on Indonesia to take action to hold the Myanmar junta accountable for its failure to implement a regional five-point consensus

Four vessels carrying Rohingya refugees have already landed in Indonesia in November and December last year

Each year thousands of Rohingyas risk their lives on long, expensive sea journeys in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia

Malaysia does not formally recognize refugees, treating them as undocumented migrants

“We can never find any solution through war .... It is of great importance to tame our mind and stay humble and not to choose the path of war"

Roughly two-thirds of Rohingya couples are now using some form of birth control -- up from virtually none five years ago

Much has changed in the time since he and 750,000 other members of the stateless Muslim minority escaped neighboring Myanmar