Mizzima
2012-08-24
China has begun a forced return of thousands of ethnic Kachin refugees to northern Burma, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday.
2012-08-24
The community violence in western Burma was surprising, but it hasn’t affected Washington’s views on easing sanctions, the US Ambassador to Burma...
2012-08-24
An effort to read a message from President Thein Sein on the conflict in Rakhine State to a joint session of the Burmese Parliament was cancelled on...
2012-08-23
The development of Burma’s Dawei special economic zone will be the focus of a two-day trip to Naypyitaw by Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in...
2012-08-23
Sessions of the Lower House and Upper House of the Burmese Parliament were cancelled on Thursday to allow the country’s three top leaders to discuss...
2012-08-22
Zarganar, the well-known Burmese comedian who is a member of a commission named to look into the causes of violence in Rakhine State, said on Tuesday...
2012-08-22
Nearly four million Burmese are now working in foreign countries, according to recent Parliament discussions.
2012-08-22
The members of Burma’s Constitutional Tribunal say they will not resign in spite of a movement in the Lower House of Parliament that seeks their...
2012-08-21
Two ethnic armed groups in Burma recently signed a “deed commitment” with a Swiss-based human rights group, pledging to eliminate underage soldiers...
2012-08-21
A Kachin State member of the Union Parliament has called on the Burmese government to repeal a law that allows the government to arrest alleged...
2012-08-21
Burma should dismantle its censorship department and repeal all laws that continue to allow suppression of news in the name of national security, the...
2012-08-21
Because the Burmese censorship department will still monitor the press, the US says it would like to see it “eradicated.”
2012-08-20
Visa has started training Burmese local bank employers to use electronic payment systems to help modernize the economy, but it says the full...
2012-08-20
The National League of Democracy (NLD) opened an office in Naypyitaw, Burma’s capital, on Wednesday, marking the rise of the once suppressed...
2012-08-20
The Burmese government has formed a 27-member commission including political party leaders, former political prisoners, opposition leaders, Muslim...