Photo: AP A United Nations report on Burma's recovery from Cyclone Nargis says progress has been achieved in key areas such as child development and health ...
Nyi Nyi Aung, who lived in Thailand from 1988 until 1994, was eventually granted refugee status by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Simon Roughneen - 3 hours ago
19, 2006, coup, when the Thai military deposed the prime minister while he attended a UN general assembly meeting in New York. Thailand fostered new trade ...
Burma. UN diplomatic efforts in Burma have pretty much run aground. Ban has reassigned his top Burma envoy, Gambari, to Sudan, and made his chief of staff, ...
Asia Times Online - Larry Jagan - 56 minutes ago
Moreland served in Myanmar, then known as Burma, during the 1988 mass pro-democracy demonstrations, the military crackdown on those same protesters and the ...
Surrounded by the Pathet Lao, Burmese junta, Khmer Rouge and facing an Islamic insurgency in its own southern region, Thailand has stood as a pillar of ...
The EU failed to get the Security Council to act on Burma, Zimbabwe, Darfur, and Kosovo. The setbacks have been caused by Europe's reluctance to use its ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Simon Roughneen - Feb 8, 2010
This smaller group had been repatriated before a US embassy official and UN representatives arrived at the Thai-Burmese border. The Thai army said that the ...