Top Myanmar court rejects appeal by massacre reporters.

Bangkok Post
23 Apr 2019

Detained Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug 20, 2018. (Reuters file photo)

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: Myanmar's Supreme Court rejected an appeal Tuesday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years each on charges linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, one of the defence lawyers confirmed.

Reporters Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the Official Secrets Act.

Daw Suu's Rakhine investment forum speech in full.

MYANMAR TIMES
THIHA KO KO | 23 FEB 2019

State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaking during the opening ceremony of the Invest Myanmar Summit 2019. Photo - EPA

State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi touted Rakhine State's "untapped" economic potential to investors and trade organisations on Friday in a Japan-sponsored investment forum held in Ngapali beach. But she glossed over violence and humanitarian nightmare in the area, saying the international community had “focused narrowly on negative aspects” of the ongoing northern Rakhine crisis, which led to an estimated 730,000 Muslim refugees fleeing to Bangladesh.

Troubled Rakhine touted as tourist attraction.

THE Star ONLINE
Friday, 22 Feb 2019

Deceptive calm: Tourists relaxing at Ngapali Beach in Thandwe, Rakhine State. — Reuters

YANGON: Organisers of a summit in Myanmar’s crisis-hit western state of Rakhine are this week pitching to investors its plentiful farmland and fishing grounds, tourist-ready beaches and historic temples.

New 45-Member Parliamentary Committee to Create Bill Amending Myanmar’s Constitution.

RADIO FREE ASIA 
2019-02-19

Military officers who serve as members of Myanmar's parliament arrive for a parliamentary session in Naypyidaw, Feb. 19, 2019.

Myanmar’s parliament on Tuesday approved the creation of a 45-member joint committee to write a bill to amend the army-drafted 2008 constitution that the current government views as undemocratic, despite opposition by lawmakers from the military and the main opposition party, legislators said.

Suu Kyi’s party proposes committee to change army-drafted charter.

THE Star ONLINE 

Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s ruling party has proposed steps towards changing the constitution, its biggest challenge in nearly three years to the military’s power over politics as enshrined in the charter.