Mizzima
2011-09-01
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Environmental activists say Chinese firms are pushing ahead with construction of the controversial Myitsone dam even though...
2011-09-01
New Delhi (Mizzima) – About 300 homes were flooded when the Kandaw Dam near Natmauk, Magwe Region, collapsed on Tuesday, spilling water into two...
2011-09-01
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A motion to form a national peace committee has been approved in the Upper House of the Burmese Parliament, and it was...
2011-09-01
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A budget shortfall has delayed irrigation dams in the Sagaing and Magwe regions of Burma, Agriculture and Irrigation Minister...
2011-08-31
(Interview) – Burmese President Thein Sein recently encouraged Burmese exiles to return home. One of his presidential advisers says Parliament will...
2011-08-31
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A motion in the Burmese Lower House to repeal the 1950 Emergency Provisions Act, which is used to imprison democracy activists...
2011-08-30
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Burmese Supreme Court will issue a ruling soon in an inheritance suit involving the brother of Aung San Suu Kyi, who has...
2011-08-30
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s first effort to publish an article in a Burmese journal has been censored, and...
2011-08-30
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – To test the new Burmese government’s openness to democracy, the student underground group All Burma Federation of Student...
2011-08-30
Rangoon (Mizzima) – Hundreds of books written by one of Burma’s most popular authors have been subject to copyright infringement, but the works will...
2011-08-29
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese citizens who have been abused by the government or businessmen can take their complaint to the Democratic Party (...
2011-08-29
(Editorial) – The verdict was like a slap in the face—10 years in jail. Just when people were lulled into thinking the new Burmese government was...
2011-08-29
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese democracy activists in exile say they do not see the on-going interactions between Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese...
2011-08-29
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - The United Nations’ International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) will begin hearings September 5 to resolve a heated...
2011-08-27
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – More amnesty releases are likely to be granted to prisoners in Burmese jails, government officials reportedly told Tomas Ojea...