BURMA BULLETIN
ISSUE 113 - MAY 2016

KEY STORY: DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE
• 100-day policy plans come into focus
ETHNIC AFFAIRS & CONFLICT
• Parliament sets up Arakan/Rakhine clashes committee
• National Reconciliation & Peace Center
HUMAN RIGHTS
• Labor rights protesters march on capital
• Ma Ba Tha lead protest against US Ambassador
• Political prisoners update
NATURAL RESOURCES
• More killed in jade landsides
• One-year logging ban proposed
HUMANITARIAN
• El Niño brings water shortages
DISPLACEMENT
• Rohingya refugee shot dead in Thailand
ECONOMY
• Panama Papers links to 16 in Burma
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• US ease sanctions on trade
OTHER BURMA NEWS
REPORTS