Mizzima
2011-05-24
(Press Release) – This is the final day of my mission to Thailand which began on 16 May 2011. I visited Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son and Bangkok this...
2011-05-23
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Twelve local journalists were allowed to attend Burma’s first ever ‘Forum on Poverty’ which was attended by President Thein...
2011-05-23
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A group of women political prisoners who started a hunger strike last week in Insein Prison in Rangoon were joined by 17 male...
2011-05-23
(Commentary) – The Burmese authorities are selling off plots of Burma’s land to the highest bidder.
2011-05-23
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Burma’s political opposition can expect little support from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and India and...
2011-05-20
Bangkok (Mizzima) – Protesting the Burmese government’s one-year commutation of prison sentences, female political prisoners are on a hunger strike...
2011-05-20
(Interview) – Thirty-one ethnic Rakhine and Karen freedom fighters who spent 13 years in prison were released from Presidency Prison in Kolkata,...
2011-05-20
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - In an open letter sent to Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has asked China to stop the...
2011-05-20
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A senior US official listened to the views of the leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) including party General...
2011-05-19
Rangoon (Mizzima) – The newly released political prisoner hip hop singer Zay Yar Thaw says he is trying to meet with Burma’s pro-democracy leader...
2011-05-18
(Interview) - Hip hop singer and Generation Wave leader Zay Yar Thaw, 31, was released on Tuesday from Kawthoung Prison, where he was serving a four-...
2011-05-18
New Delhi (Mizzima) – According to the NLD, so far 36 political prisoners–19 of them NLD members–have been released from prisons across the country...
2011-05-17
(Interview) - The newly formed United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) is made up of 12 ethnic groups. In 2010, six armed ethnic groups formed an...
2011-05-17
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Already found in areas throughout Burma, the deadly blue ear pig virus has spread to the Taungoo area, according to the...
2011-05-17
Rangoon (Mizzima) – Because he is under house arrest, the former military Intelligence chief and prime minister, Khin Nyunt, was excluded from...