Myanmar – Page 17 – Asia Times

A Myanmar woman with children displaced from the recent fighting between government troops and the ethnic Arakan Army take shelter at a displacement camp housing more than 700 people in Kyauktaw township in Rakhine State on December 23, 2018. Photo: AFP

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia

Arakan Army clashes with government forces in Rakhine state

by Bertil Lintner January 3, 2019February 18, 2020

Migrant workers will soon be allowed into Japan. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

AT Finance, China, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Japan passes law to hire more migrant workers

by Asia Times staff January 2, 2019February 18, 2020

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a press conference in Dhaka on December 31, 2018. Photo: Indranil Mukherjee / AFP

AT Finance, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Asia

Bangladesh’s economic gains marred by plunge into autocratic rule

by Nazmul ISLAM January 2, 2019February 18, 2020

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. Photo: Reuters, Rafiqur Rahman

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, World

India looks to maintain ties with Bangladesh under Hasina

by Manoj Kumar Mishra January 2, 2019

Army chief Snr General Min Aung Hlaing has told media groups they could face legal action over unverified reports about the military. Photo: AFP / Thet Aung

AT Finance, Myanmar

Army chief threatens to sue media groups over ‘false reports’

by Bertil Lintner January 2, 2019February 18, 2020

緬甸的文職領導人昂山素姬參加2018年12月1日在加德滿都（Kathmandu）舉行的2018年亞太峰會。相片：AFP / Sunil Sharma / Pool

AT Finance, European Union, Myanmar, World

緬甸過去與未來的麻煩

by Bertil Lintner January 2, 2019February 18, 2020

Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends the Asia Pacific Summit 2018 in Kathmandu on December 1, 2018. Photo: AFP/Sunil Sharma/Pool

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, India, Japan, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia, World

Trouble ahead, trouble behind for Myanmar

by Bertil Lintner December 28, 2018February 18, 2020

Kaohsiung International Airport in Taiwan. Photo: Google Maps

AT Finance, Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, New Zealand, Oceania, South Asia, Taiwan, Vietnam

Vietnamese tourists become illegal immigrants in Taiwan

by Asia Times staff December 27, 2018February 18, 2020

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to extend her reign as Bangladesh's longest-serving leader. Photo: Reuters

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia

Bangladesh elections marred by deaths

by Shafiqul Alam, Sam Jahan and Redwan Ahmed December 27, 2018February 18, 2020

Rohingya refugees wait roadside for aid at Thaingkhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Bangladesh, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Asia’s version of Palestine emerging in Bangladesh

by Bertil Lintner December 24, 2018February 18, 2020

Journalist Wa Lone speaks to reporters as he is escorted from a courthouse in Yangon on July 9. He and colleague Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years in jail after their conviction. Photo: AFP / Myo Kyaw Soe

AT Finance, Bangladesh, France, Myanmar, South Asia, World

Jailed Myanmar Reuters journalists set to appeal

by Asia Times staff December 24, 2018February 18, 2020

The Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) building. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Bangladesh, China, European Union, India, Myanmar, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand, World

Rohingya issue slows investor interest in Myanmar

by Gary Kleiman December 20, 2018

Photo: iStock.

AT Finance, Myanmar, Vietnam, World

Chấp nhận rủi ro để giải cứu những cô gái Việt bị buôn

by Asia Times staff December 19, 2018February 18, 2020

More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar in 2017 now live in camps near Cox's Bazar in southern Bangladesh. But a British move in the UN to set a timeline for them to be returned may not succeed. Photo: AFP / Masfiqur Sohan

AT Finance, Bangladesh, China, France, Middle East, Myanmar, Russia, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

Russia, China may veto British move in UN on Rohingya return

by Bertil Lintner December 19, 2018February 18, 2020

A Rohingya refugee woman at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

AT Finance, European Union, Myanmar, World

Myanmar groups ask EU not to scrap trade privileges

by Bertil Lintner December 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Thai workers repair fishing boats in Phuket province in January 2005. Efforts to reform the Thai fishing industry have been underway despite resistance by some involved in the business. Photo: AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, European Union, Laos, Myanmar, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Thai junta takes the stench off troubled fisheries industry

by Peter Janssen December 18, 2018February 18, 2020

AT Finance, China, Macau, Middle East, Myanmar

Domestic worker arrested for abandoning newborn in Macau

by Asia Times staff December 17, 2018February 18, 2020

The rainforest of Boven Digoel, Papua. This state is home to some of the last big expanses of rainforest but Jakarta has allowed plantations to take over many wilderness areas. Photo: Nanang Sujana

AT Finance, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Middle East, Myanmar, South Asia, World

Tropical deforestation a threat to war on warming

by Hans Nicholas Jong December 15, 2018February 18, 2020

Lao kip banknotes in a collage image. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

AT Finance, Beijing, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, South Asia, World

Laos’ zipping economy falls back to earth

by David Hutt December 15, 2018February 18, 2020

Photo: iStock.

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, Middle East, Myanmar, Vietnam, World

Freeing trafficked Vietnamese girls means taking risks

by Asia Times staff December 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Rohingya refugees who were intercepted by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency off Langkawi island are escorted as they are handed over to immigration authorities, at the Kuala Kedah ferry jetty in Malaysia April 3, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Stringer

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Myanmar, South Asia, Thailand

Gratitude – and advice – to Malaysia from a Rohingya refugee

by Ziaur Rahman December 13, 2018

The Sule Pagoda is a stupa in the heart of downtown Yangon. It is in the center of the city and an important space in contemporary Myanmar politics, ideology and geography. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Myanmar, World

What the Jack Dorsey Myanmar tweet episode revealed

by Tej Parikh December 13, 2018

A customer counts 1,000 peso bills after converting her dollars at a money shop in the suburban financial district of Makati 24 August 2003 . The Philippine currency, languishing at levels last seen two and a half years ago, is expected to breach its historic low against the US dollar amid persistent political concerns, analysts say. The peso has been hitting records lows recently and is now hovering above the 55-to the dollar mark. AFP PHOTO Joel NITO / AFP PHOTO / JOEL NITO

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Myanmar, South Asia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, World

The political roots of falling wage growth

by Jayati Ghosh December 13, 2018

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi (L) and European Commission foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini after a meeting at the European Commission in Brussels on May 2, 2017. Photo: AFP/Emmanuel Dunand

AT Finance, Bangladesh, European Union, Myanmar, South Asia, World

European businesses lose confidence in Myanmar

by Bertil Lintner December 13, 2018February 18, 2020

Chinese flag: iStock

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, South Asia, Vietnam, World

Global perceptions of an ascendant China

by Manoj Kumar Mishra December 13, 2018December 13, 2018

Nadia Murad (L) and Lamia Haji Bashar, public advocates for the Yazidi community in Iraq and survivors of sexual enslavement by the Islamic State jihadists, are awarded laureates of the 2016 Sakharov human rights prize at the European parliament in Strasbourg in 2016. Photo: AFP/ Frederick Florin

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Bangladesh, European Union, India, Iraq, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Human Rights Day: fighting indifference with justice

by Vijay Prashad December 12, 2018

An aerial view of the arched bridge under construction, whose span is the largest of its kind in the world. Photo: Xinhua

AT Finance, China, Myanmar, World

Massive arched bridge to link China to Myanmar

by Asia Times staff December 11, 2018February 18, 2020

UN Special Humanitarian Envoy to the Horn of Africa Kjell Bondevik speaks to the media at UN headquarters in Gigiri, Nairobi. Photo: AFP/Simon Maina

AT Finance, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Bondevik cannot resolve the Kashmir dispute

by Vivek Katju December 10, 2018

An aerial view of India's Andaman islands. Photo: Facebook

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Where India quietly watches China at sea

by Bertil Lintner December 10, 2018February 18, 2020

The alleged agency operates in Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, Singapore. Photo: Google Maps

AT Finance, Myanmar, Singapore

Agent fined over underage girls flown in for domestic work

by Asia Times staff December 7, 2018February 18, 2020