Section: Myanmar
China Limits Coverage, Denounces Panama Papers’ Tax Haven Revelations
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during his meeting with US President Barack Obama at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on March 31, 2016. (Photo: Reuters) BEIJING — China has moved to limit coverage of the massive leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm that may have exposed financial wrongdoing by some of the world’s rich...
Rangoon’s Rare International Cuisines
A vendor sorts sausages at a stand in Vienna, Austria. Similar German sausages are now available at Mahlzeit restaurant in Rangoon. (Photo: Herwig Prammer / Reuters) RANGOON — Asian cuisines from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and India are not considered unconventional among food lovers in Rangoon. But German, Russian and Mediterranean dishes...
With Mining Law Changes, Are Foreign Firms Set to Dig In?
Aung San Suu Kyi watches a test explosion during a visit to the Letpadaung copper mine project in Sarlingyi Township on March 14, 2013. (Photo: Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters) Long-anticipated revisions to Burma’s Mining Law, which were passed by the outgoing Parliament at the end of last year, could spur foreign investment in a sector that is...
UN Group Says Anwar’s Jailing in Malaysia Politically Motivated
Malaysian opposition politician Nurul Izzah Anwar, daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, appears at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Oslo, Norway, May 26, 2015. (Photo: Terje Pedersen / Reuters) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Imprisoned Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was prosecuted for political reasons and should be released, a UN...
Dutch Probe: Buk Missile Downed Malaysian Jet in Ukraine
The reconstructed wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the July 2014 crash over Ukraine, October 13, 2015. (Photo: Michael Kooren / Reuters) GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands — The missile shot skyward from war-ravaged eastern Ukraine. With deadly accuracy more than six miles up, it detonated just...
