To enter into Thein Tun's realm is to go barefoot--as is the custom in Myanmar--and to step back in time. He flashes a warm smile as he gets up from his desk, on the second floor of Tun Commercial ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your ...

The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources of the arbitrary detention and sentencing of Mr. Thein Aung Myint, member of the Movement for Democracy Current Force (MDCF). MDCF is a ...

Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi visits the memorial of India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi. Reuters Ex-General and current President of Burma, Thein Sein, told the BBC in a ...

Barack Obama made history today - becoming the first sitting US president to visit Burma and telling a packed audience that he had come to bear witness to a dramatic transformation he believed was ...