The Rohingya - the forgotten genocide of our time

AMSTERDAM/ROME, Jan 9 2019 (IPS) - The Rohingya are a minority community living in Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Muslim Rohingya are considered intruders into Buddhist Myanmar – illegal immigrants from bordering Bangladesh. They have been always discriminated against, looked down upon, ostracised, and denied any civil and judicial rights.In...

Dynamics of One Belt One Road

The Kunming Initiative, which is known as "BCIM (Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar) Economic Connectivity Forum for Regional Cooperation" began its journey in August 1999 in Kunming, capital of China's southwestern province of Yunnan. After 14 years of intense dialogue, today BCIM Forum has become an important sub-regional cooperation mechanism aimed at greater integration...