Human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet has warned of a "full-blown" conflict in Myanmar, amid a crackdown that a monitoring groups says has claimed more than 700 lives.
BY AFP
U Wai Yan Heinn, the publisher and editor of Iron News, was found knifed to death at his Yangon office last Sunday.
Authorities in India confiscated gold worth about US$543,000 (K735 million) earlier this month in the latest seizure of the precious metal being smuggled into the country from Myanmar, media reports said.
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