Social / CSR in Myanmar
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MYANMAR, 2016/03/20
Lawmakers in Myanmar’s parliament have approved a proposition by the incoming government for the formation of a new ethnic affairs ministry.
Christian MPs said the move was a step forward toward peace and national reconciliation with minority groups.
The proposition was submitted to parliament on March 17. Lawmakers debated the proposition and accepted it March 18.
The establishment of the new ministry is part of a broader civil service reform strategy to reduce bureaucracy in which the incoming government wants to cut the number of ministries from 36 to 21.
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MYANMAR, 2015/05/16
Myanmar may snub a regional conference hosted by Thailand later this month aimed at easing the current Bay of Bengal migrant crisis, the president's office said Friday.
Hundreds of boat people have arrived on Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian soil since May 1, at the same time as the discovery of mass graves believed to belong to Bangladeshi and Myanmar migrants in southern Thailand prompted a crackdown on trafficking and smugglers to abandon their cargo.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
