NOVANEWS Six MORE British passports used in ‘Mossad’ assassination of Hamas commander in Dubai By ARTHUR MARTIN and LUCY BALLINGER Six more innocent Britons were thrust into the international murder plot of a Hamas leader after it […]
NOVANEWS By Aung Aung The Stateless 18 Rohingya from Minpya and Mrauk U towns of Arakan were persuaded to go to Yangon by a broker Maung Ni, (35 years of age). As Rohingyas are generally blocked […]
NOVANEWS By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY Ethnic armed groups sit down for a conference in late October in Laiza, Kachin State. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) RANGOON — Leaders of Burma’s ethnic armed groups will […]
NOVANEWS By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY Nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu is greeted with respect at a monks’ conference in Rangoon in June 2013. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) RANGOON — The controversial Buddhist monk […]
NOVANEWS By THIN LEI WIN / THOMSON REUTERS Poe Suter Toe, an ethnic Karen refugee from Mandalay, stands between fences at the Mae La refugee camp near Mae Sot June 3, 2012. (Photo: Reuters) BANGKOK — […]
NOVANEWS By LIN THANT & PAUL VRIEZE Burma Army officers attend a military legal affairs seminar by the US Defense Institute of International Legal Studies in Naypyidaw in August. (Photo: www.diils.org) RANGOON — The United States […]
NOVANEWS Published Jan. 21, 2013 by BBC News By Jonah Fisher An investigation by the BBC has revealed that Thai officials have been selling boat people from Burma to human traffickers. Thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled to […]
NOVANEWS Human Rights Watch recently released its “World Report 2013,” and Burma did not fare well in the eyes of the organization. The report outlined, among other abuses, the way the Burmese officials participated in the […]
NOVANEWS Burmese President Thein Sein In the midst of violence against the Rohingya Muslims in his country, Burmese President Thein Sein will be given a peace award by the International Crisis Group. The group said […]
NOVANEWS President Obama stopped in Burma for 6 hours on Monday, Nov. 19 and spoke at University of Yangon. In that speech, Obama made a mention of the violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in […]