Independent Mon News Agency
2009-03-04
A bilingual education program teaching in Mon and Thai languages near Sangkhlaburi, Thailand was recently featured as a model example during a...
2009-03-04
Authorities are updating family lists and conducting an “economic revenue inquest” in Three Pagodas Pass Township, near the Thai-Burma border. The...
2009-03-02
The Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline burst on February 18th. According to local sources, the pipeline had been leaking for months. The gas did...
2009-03-02
Three months after over 1,000 shops were destroyed in a fire at Moulmein’s second largest market, Mon State authorities have agreed to a contract...
2009-02-28
The Burmese government and the International Labour Office (ILO) have extended the Supplementary Understanding for the elimination of forced labour...
2009-02-27
Migrant workers returning to Burma increasingly prefer the border crossings near Mae Sot and Three Pagodas Pass, Thailand to the southern crossing in...
2009-02-22
The United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) has called on the United Nations and the international community to continue “effective pressure” on Burma’s...
2009-02-22
The Burmese navy has auctioned off fishing boats at their base in Kawthaung, Tenesserim Division for the first time this year after they seized the...
2009-02-19
The chairman of the largest political party representing Mon people has returned from a visit to Japan. The visit included meetings with members of...
2009-02-19
Migrant workers from upper and middle Burma have been causing trouble in several villages in Mon State through robbery, drunkenness, stealing produce...
2009-02-19
Relatives of the 54 Burmese workers who suffocated to death last year in the back of a container truck received compensation from an insurance...
2009-02-18
A Thai insurance company is set to pay compensation to the families of 54 Burmese migrant workers who suffocated in the back of a truck while...
2009-02-18
Burmese migrant workers recently went on a one day strike at a Thai rubber plantation in Surat Thani province after managers failed to pay them their...
2009-02-17
An additional two ethnic Karen armed cease-fire groups will cooperate in an “economic development zone” to be operated by a third Karen group near...
2009-02-17
The Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA) has taken over school repairs funded by a private donor in Mudon Township. The involvement in the...