MYANMAR’S military government extended a four-year emergency rule, further delaying plans for long-promised general elections as a civil war rages on. Read more at The Business Times.
The episcopal ordination comes at a time when Kachin state, located along Myanmar's border with China, is suffering the devastating effects of war, which has displaced over 100,000 people.
Almost four years after the military coup, civil war, economic struggles ... Further reading: Myanmar nuns empower the disabled In Putao, Kachin State’s northernmost town, the Xaverian Sisters ...
The latest China-brokered truce in Myanmar's civil war is likely to hold for now but lasting peace may still be a pipe dream, according to observers. Myanmar's military government and a major ...