Mizzima
2011-03-31
The 6.9 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Shan State in Burma on March 24 caused an estimated US $3.6 million in damage, according to a quake...
2011-03-31
General Min Aung Hlaing, 54, has served as acting joint chief of staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force since June 2010, when he was promoted from...
2011-03-31
A roadside vegetable merchant in Mandalay Chanayethatzan Township was given a 15-day jail sentence early this month for violation of a ban on...
2011-03-31
New Delhi (Mizzima) – The National League for Democracy (NLD) says it wants to hold a political dialogue with the new parliamentary government for...
2011-03-30
Retired General Thein Sein, the leader of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, was sworn in as president of Burma on Wednesday...
2011-03-30
Senior General Than Shwe has appointed General Min Aung Hlaing to be the new commander in chief of Defense Services...
2011-03-30
List of deputy ministers: (1) Major General Kyaw Nyunt (Deputy Minister, Ministry of Defence) (2) Colonel Aung Thaw (Deputy Minister, Ministry of...
2011-03-30
Ministers of the Rangoon Regional Government were sworn at the regional assembly on Wednesday. Chief Minister Myint Swe, a retired lieutenant general...
2011-03-30
Dr. Tu Ja, who resigned from the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) to form the Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP), has applied for membership...
2011-03-29
Bob Kelley, a former weapons inspector with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says the German government is ‘naïve’ in their claim that...
2011-03-29
Burma's media world may get a little more free starting sometime this week. The junta’s censorship board director Tint Swe said that the new...
2011-03-29
The founder of the Myanmar Times weekly newspaper in Rangoon who is accused of violating the Immigration Act and assaulting a woman was released on...
2011-03-29
Burmese authorities will raise the passenger tax at Rangoon International Airport starting April 1 for Burmese citizens going abroad...
2011-03-28
As debate begins on a potential softening of European Union (EU) sanctions against Burma, the Austrian Embassy in Bangkok has declined to deny...
2011-03-28
As the review of the Burma sanctions by the European Union nears, the voices of the outspoken critics of the sanctions grow louder. The critics...