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'A dream come true': Rohingya group buys community center on Milwaukee's south side Isabel Koyama and Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Julia Martins de Sa / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Anuwar Kasim, left, founder of the nonprofit Burmese Rohingya Community of Wisconsin, discusses paint estimates with Christopher Fink of Painting by Christopher LLC in the New Life Hmong Alliance Church in Milwaukee’s Clark Square neighborhood. A south side church is being converted into a community center for Rohingya refugees in Milwaukee, believed to be home to one of the la...

At Least Five Protesters Killed as Myanmar Forces Crack Down on Protests in Several Cities Regime forces make arrests in Mandalay on Sunday. / CJ 702 By The Irrawaddy 2 May 2021 Myanmar regime forces launched their most extensive crackdowns in two weeks on anti-regime protests on Sunday, killing at least five protesters, and wounding and arresting several people across the country. Since early morning on Sunday, soldiers, police officers and also plainclothes men were out in force at protest sites in various cities, chasing protesters as they marched in support of the Global Myanmar Spring ...

  Yangon –  The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director in Myanmar, Ms. Aler Grubbs, introduced the new USAID Local Action Toward Tuberculosis-Free Myanmar project to the Yangon Regional Health Department, development partners and local civil society organizations. Dr. Win Naing, Director, Yangon Regional Health Department, Ministry of Health and Sports opened the event. The new three-year project marks a milestone in the U.S.-Myanmar partnership to prevent and treat tuberculosis. The project is being implemented by a Myanmar civil society organization,...

On December 10, India and Myanmar held the 5 th bilateral meeting on Drug Control Cooperation between the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), India and the Central Committee on Drug Abuse Control, Myanmar. The Indian delegation was led by the Director General Narcotics Control Bureau, Rakesh Asthana, and the Myanmar delegation was led by the Commander of the Drug Enforcement Division (DED) cum Joint Secretary of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control, Pol. Brig. Gen. Win Naing. Asthana said that India was concerned by high prevalence of drug abuse in the North Eastern States abutting the My...