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Freeing Commerce in Eastern India

Written by Nava Thakuria MONDAY, 22 JULY 2013 Port, river project gives India’s eastern states access to the sea By 2015, a US$214 million port project at the town of Sittwe, at the mouth of the Kaladan River on the Myanmar side of the Bay of Bengal, is expected to provide the 60 million people of

Hearing on Chin Issues in Brussels

Thursday 11, July 2013 Bill O’Toole Myanmar Times On the eve of U Thein Sein’s presidential visit to Europe, The EU Parliament in Brussels, Belgium held a public hearing this week on the ongoing human rights abuses in Chin State. “What we really hope is that the European Parliament…will raise these questions with Thein Sein