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After his arrest in September, the American was held for 17 days in a dank Myanmar jail and denied food, medical treatment, sleep and the chance to speak with a U.S. government official. Even after he finally met with a representative from the U.S. Embassy, the American was transferred to solitary confinement in a cell for military dogs.
The federal government placed fewer Burmese refugees in the Fort Wayne area this year than anticipated, conceding to a local economy increasingly unable to meet residents' needs.
This booming little border town in China's southwestern Yunnan province, where the economic prosperity of China is separated from the destitution of Burma by nothing more than a flimsy, rusted metal fence, has emerged as the new front line in the worldwide fight against human trafficking.
The Mekong River, which courses 3,032 miles through parts of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam before emptying into the South China Sea, is rapidly being transformed by economic development.
Visitors to central Ohio museums, arts centers and galleries were treated this year to spectacles of teapots and mummies, real-estate drawings and Burmese artifacts, and the paintings of a Belgian phenomenon and a home-grown favorite.
Matt Rainey/The Star-LedgerJyoti Soni, an Indian American wedding planner for Hindu weddings. The bride’s mother fainted on the spot. And a brawl erupted between the bride’s and groom’s sides during the exquisitely tailored Hindu wedding that Jyoti Soni had orchestrated...
The U.N. General Assembly condemned wide-ranging human rights violations in Myanmar in a resolution adopted early on Thursday.
UTICA, December 27, 2009-- Here's a submitted video of the Christmas Eve service at the Tabernacle Baptist Church on Hopper Street in Utica. The church reaches out to refugees from Burma, who have recently taken up residence in the city.
Today is Monday, Jan. 4, the 4th day of 2010. There are 361 days left in the year. On Jan. 4, 1960, Algerian-born French author and philosopher Albert Camus (al-BEHR' kah-MOO') died in an automobile accident in Villeblevin, France at age 46.
Global apocalypse was a hot topic at the movies this year, but cinema itself is alive and well at the close of 2009. So many good-to-fabulous films hit the screen that I might easily devote a separate article to worthy also-rans.
BEIJING, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- China has become a major thoroughfare for human trafficking efforts as both a source country and a destination point, U.N. agency officials say.
Time Magazine described the “aughts” as the “Decade from Hell.” It featured two recessions, terrorist attacks and natural disasters that claimed thousands of lives. It also had a disputed presidential election and then, eight years later, a historic one. We begin a 10-day look at the decade with 2000.
BRADENTON, Fla. - Florida Sen. Bill Nelson's efforts to make it illegal to import and trade nine dangerous snakes, including Burmese pythons, isn't sitting well...
Travel industry experts have selected these as top destinations for the new year: Lonely Planet (U.S. staff) — United States, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Thailand, Cuba, Italy, Philippines, Brazil, Costa Rica.
Sorry, Ambrose, I think you got this one wrong. A century ago, Ambrose Bierce, the notorious San Francisco critic and satirist, famously wrote: "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." But if that's true, how to explain, then, that many, many years... Ambrose Bierce - San Francisco - United States - Geography - Arts
As daylight faded into its last hour on a recent Saturday afternoon, glowing greens and reds washed over the crowd filing into Farrington High School's auditorium for a weekly church service.
