United Nations staff have been aid workers held in Burma,

Ten aid workers held in Burma,
Ten aid workers including some United Nations staff have been detained in western Burma following deadly communal unrest, the UN says. 
IN a bulletin on the situation in violence-wracked Rakhine state, the UN said on Friday that humanitarian staff had been held for "questioning" - adding that Burma's government had failed to respond to queries about those detained.
More than 80 people were killed in a wave of communal violence between ethnic Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya which swept the state in June, forcing tens of thousands to flee as homes were torched and communities ripped apart.

Sen. Collins: Republicans and Democrats can agree on Myanmar (Burma)

In Myanmar (Burma) the tide of democracy is growing. But Aung San Suu Kyi rightly cautions foreign investors that the country still has no ‘rule of law.’ The US must continue to support those working to further human rights and civil society while carefully watching Burma's generals. 
Landing in Naw Pyi Daw, Myanmar's (Burma's) capital, last month, I realized that I had tumbled down the rabbit hole into an altered reality, but one that, unlike Alice’s, carried little wonder. 

Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi ordered not to use

Hundreds of cheering supporters welcomed her after a five-nation European tour. On her first visit to Europe in more than two decades, Ms Suu Kyi visited Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Britain and France. Previously she had spent nearly 20 years under house arrest. She delivered a Nobel lecture, was honoured at Oxford University, met pop stars and politicians and delivered speeches on her hopes for Burma.

Among many burman and arakanese both inside

Much has been made of the recent sectarian unrest in western Burma and its ramifications for the country’s fragile reform process. It’s important to note that the violence and subsequent outpouring of anti-Rohingya anger is not a niche issue confined to a specific locale – instead it should be viewed as something more pervasive among many Burman and Arakanese, both inside Burma and abroad, that threatens to contaminate the wider discourse on how to move the country forward.

Myanmar pays price for lost generation of educated

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The dormitories are empty, the once charming bungalows of professors overgrown with vines and weeds. Only grass grows where the Student Union building stood before soldiers obliterated it with dynamite. This is Yangon University, once one of Asia's finest and a poignant symbol of an education system crippled by Myanmar's half a century of military rule. Only graduate students are still allowed to study here. Fearful of student-led uprisings, the regime has periodically shut down this and other campuses and dispersed students to remote areas with few facilities.

Bangladesh for UN help to repatriate Rohingya refugees

Dhaka (Mizzima) – To resume and expedite the repatriation of Burmese Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has sought the assistance of the UN refugee agency. She made the appeal as Steven Craig Sanders, newly appointed representative in Bangladesh of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), presented his credentials to the minister at her office in the capital, Dhaka on Sunday, a Foreign Ministry press statement said.

UN envoy’s visit to Arakan the lies of military

In Paletwa township, Chin State
According to Mr Rofiq, chairman of Ethnic Rohingya Community-ERC based in Malaysia, a group of Rakhines with arms mostly who are not from Paletwa were entered into the muslim village and attacked against the villagers in the evening of about 21 June. Fortunately, the government authority arrived there in good time and seized all arms from Rakhines and drove them away. The authority promised to look after the villagers. However, up to today 25 June, they are confined within the village and