A panacea for the economy?
There’s been a broadly positive response to the new Myanmar Investment Law, which levels the playing field between domestic and foreign investors and seeks the accelerated development of targeted areas and economic sectors. THE LONG-AWAITED Myanmar Investment Law has received a generally positive response from the business community, which had been more critical of the […]
Analysis: Dealing With Defamation
RANGOON — After being detained, Eleven Media Group executives Than Htut Aung and Wai Phyo asked the government to abolish Article 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law under which they have been charged by the Rangoon divisional government. The two men made the statement to an applauding crowd at a police station in Tamwe Township on […]
Arrests of Eleven Media Group members of deep concern: Mizzima
Mizzima Media Group is deeply concerned about the arrest and charging of Dr Than Htut Aung, CEO of the Eleven Media Group, and Wai Phyo, chief editor of Eleven Media Group, this week under section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law. The two journalists have been charged under section 66(d) of the 2013 Telecommunications law by […]
Is The Lady listening? Aung San Suu Kyi accused of ignoring Myanmar’s Muslims
(CNN)Women wail in the background as the camera pans across the scene. “Oh brothers, look at this, look,” the narrator says, as he films the remnants of a burned house, bodies clearly visible sticking out of the mud and ash. The disturbing video is one of a handful that have emerged from northern Rakhine State, […]
Anti-Muslim Buddhist monk in Myanmar: Trump ‘similar to me’
MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — Shunned by Myanmar’s new government and its Buddhist hierarchy, a nationalist monk blamed for whipping up at times bloody anti-Muslim fervor said he feels vindicated by U.S. voters who elected Donald Trump to be president. Ashin Wirathu, a high-profile leader of the Myanmar Buddhist organization known as Ma Ba Tha, drew […]