Myanmar has the fourth highest child mortality rate in the world, says UNICEF; Myanmar Airways International to extend its flight services to India
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    • According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) annual report, The State of the World's Children, Myanmar had the 4th highest child mortality rate in the world and that between 100,000-150,000 children under the age of five years died every year1.

    Burma Net reported that Myanmar Airways International would extend its flight services to India later this year as part of its plan to reach more international destinations2.

    Meanwhile, according to Burma Net, as many as three Democratic Karen Buddhist Army personnel were killed and eight others wounded in a mine explosion near the border town of Myawaddy in Karen state on January 243.

    The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and foreign ministers of France and Britain issued a joint statement urging global pressure on Myanmar’s military government to end human rights abuses and return to civilian rule. The appeal was issued at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) on January 244.

    Among other developments, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been awarded a Spanish honor “Abogados de Atocha” for her work towards political reconciliation5.

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