Matters India Reporter Yangon, 4th July 2020 — A jade mine disaster in northern Myanmar killing some 200 and injuring another 100 poor migrant workers has made Myanmar’s cardinal mourn the human tragedy. In a letter addressed to Bishop Francis Daw Tang of Myitkyina and the faithful of his diocese,Continue Reading
The Hague, Jan 23, 2020: In a sweeping legal victory for members of the Rohingya Muslim minority, the United Nations’ top court on January 23 ordered Myanmar take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people. The court’s President, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, said the InternationalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon, Dec 22, 2019: In a Christmas message addressed to “all my brothers and sisters” Myanmar’s cardinal has appealed to both his countrymen and international community to “to accompany this nation of fledgling democracy” as all stakeholders are trying to recast a new Myanmar. “More thanContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Dhaka, August 2, 2019: Two cardinals from Myanmar and the Philippines met refugee families, relief agency personnel and government officials of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh during their weeklong visit to Bangladesh. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, archbishop of Manila, and Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishopContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, March 25, 2019: A leading Asian cardinal says the world’s resources are at the mercy of a minuscule minority, and the “poor are doubly-condemned by an economy that favors the powerful and a carbon hegemony that destroys their livelihood.” Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo, the president ofContinue Reading
By Rina Chandran Yangon, Feb. 15, 2019: Catholic leaders are lending their support to those protesting a Chinese-backed dam project in Myanmar, adding pressure on the government to cancel the hydro-power dam in the country’s north. Ongoing protests have brought together Catholic priests and nuns with hundreds of protesters inContinue Reading
Guwahati, Oct 4: Seven Rohingya Muslim men, arrested in 2012 for illegally entering Assam, were on October 4 officially handed over to Myanmar authorities at Manipur’s border town Moreh. The deportation from the immigration point at Moreh Gate No 2 took place at 1 p.m. soon after the Supreme CourtContinue Reading
The restive Arakan state in northwest of Myanmar has been historically a boiling pot of ethnic conflictContinue Reading
Bagan (Myanmar): Riding elephants and horses in heavily bejewelled costumes, thick eyeliner and rouged lips, boys in central Myanmar parade through their village as ancient princes in a ceremony to mark their passage to monkhood. The whole village of Myinkabar, nestled among the centuries-old pagodas of Bagan city, turns outContinue Reading
Myanmar`s military stands accused of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.Continue Reading