Interview

September 15, 2011
(Interview): After four months of the new military government assuming power in Burma, the Union Assembly was held on 22 August for the second time,...
September 9, 2011
(Interview) – A Burmese exiled activist cum economist Zaw Oo attended the three-day Economic Forum in Naypyitaw on August 19-21, where he read a...
August 31, 2011
(Interview) – Burmese President Thein Sein recently encouraged Burmese exiles to return home. One of his presidential advisers says Parliament will...
August 17, 2011
(Interview) - In a speech delivered in Naypyitaw on Wednesday, President Thein Sein said that organizations and people in exile could come back home...
August 12, 2011
(Interview) – The Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Organizations have been unable to agree on a cease-fire after weeks of negotiations...
August 10, 2011
(Interview) – Burmese writer Dagon Taryar, 93, a lifelong peace activist, recently urged government troops and ethnic armed groups to stop the...
August 3, 2011
(Interview) – The Burmese government is looking into changing its foreign exchange rate system, in an effort to stabilize the system and help...
August 2, 2011
(Interview) - Because the new Burmese civilian government and the Burmese army are contending for power, initially the government needs to negotiate...
August 1, 2011
(Interview) A former Fulbright scholar who has studied human rights in Guatemala, Ghana, and Liberian refugee camps, Joy Agner originally came to...
August 1, 2011
(Interview) - Because the new Burmese civilian government and the Burmese army are contending for power, initially the government needs to negotiate...
July 29, 2011
(Interview) – Hip-hop singer and political activist Zay Yar Thaw, who was released from Kawthaung Prison on May 17, wants to create music that...
July 22, 2011
(Interview) – Incessant heavy rain has caused flooding in villages in Mrauk Township. Mrauk-U has broken a 33-year record with 9.27 inches of rain,...
July 20, 2011
(Interview) – Since July 11, fierce fighting has begun in Shan State between Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) and government troops. The battle lines...
July 20, 2011
(Interview) – People should study the history of the Burmese independence struggle, says the son of Ba Win, one of the assassinated fallen martyrs...
July 1, 2011
(Interview ) – Khin Ohn Mar, one of the exiled- based Burmese democracy leaders, will take part in a “Community of Democracies” meeting in Lithuania...

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