Mizzima
2011-04-04
The final, 7th step of the Burmese junta’s so-called roadmap to democracy has been completed with the handing over of power to the newly installed...
2011-04-01
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A new report by the human and legal rights group Earth Rights International alleges frequent and severe abuses have been...
2011-04-01
Rangoon (Mizzima) – When it comes to corruption, Burma is just a whisker away from rock bottom.
2011-04-01
The Arakan State government was formed with nine ministers on 30 March, 2011, with the state government ministries announced by the new president,...
2011-04-01
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – At a time when the Burmese police force is changing, the new government has appointed Brigadier General Kyaw Kyaw Tun, the...
2011-04-01
New Delhi (Mizzima) – In a bow to the importance of timely, accurate weather information, Burma has launched a new weather website that aims to...
2011-04-01
New Delhi (Mizzima) – A Canadian national who entered Burma illegally from Phop Phra on the Thai side of the border with Burma, will be prosecuted...
2011-04-01
A total of 157 state-owned properties in Rangoon were put up for auction in March. Although details of the sale are sketchy, it follows the pattern...
2011-03-31
The owner of the Zaygabar Company, Khin Shwe, an MP in the Union Solidarity and Development Party, gave a farewell dinner for Parliament MPs on...
2011-03-31
On his return trip home after Parliament was dissolved, an Arakanese MP lost consciousness on a bus to Rangoon and he was taken to a hospital,...
2011-03-31
Khun Htun Oo, a Shan leder and a political prisoner who was sentenced to 93 years, has received the first Nationalities Hero prize given by the...
2011-03-31
A new report by the human and legal rights group Earth Rights International alleges frequent and severe abuses have been inflicted on civilians...
2011-03-31
The UN Secretary-General has called on Burma’s new government to demonstrate a ‘genuine move away’ from ‘direct military rule’. In a statement issued...
2011-03-31
Ben Rogers is the author of ‘Than Shwe – Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant’. He recently visited Burma for a week on a tourist visa but was subsequently...
2011-03-31
Thousands of copies of a documentary film recounting the horrors of life in the Burmese army are being downloaded, copied and circulated in Rangoon...