Mizzima
2011-01-18
Maung P. Htaik, originally from Burma, has become the first US Marine killed in Afghanistan in 2011. The 20-year-old soldier, known to his friends as...
2011-01-15
Burma’s Supreme Court in Naypyidaw on Thursday agreed to hear the National League for Democracy’s final appeal against the dissolution of the party...
2011-01-15
The chairman of the Chin National Party, Pu Zozam, said that its first parliamentary bills have been drafted to promote tourism in Chin State and to...
2011-01-12
About 800 Burmese university students in Kalaymyo in Chin State demonstrated and commandeered buses on Wednesday morning in protest over a 100...
2011-01-11
The enactment of a military draft law, making most adult Burmese subject to serve in the armed forces, is likely to create more tension between the...
2011-01-10
Burma’s new national, regional and state Parliaments will convene for the first time on Jan. 31, two months after the national elections, the state...
2011-01-07
A Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) meeting held in the Burmese capital Naypyidaw on January 2 and 3, has decided to take action against...
2011-01-07
The People’s Assembly (Pyithu Hluttaw) will convene in mid January according to Khin Shwe, law-maker elected to the national assembly from the junta-...
2011-01-05
Funeral services at a local charity have hit a ten-year high, a spokesperson of the Free Funeral Service Association (Rangoon) said today in Burma...
2011-01-04
The annual Kachin Manau Festival marking the 63rd Kachin State Day will be broadcast live by the Yangon based Studio 35 Company, the organising...
2010-12-29
A class action brought by 63 farmers against a company with close links to Burma’s military junta over land grabs in Kachin State will wind up on...
2010-12-25
Clashes in eastern Karen State between Burmese Army and Karen National Union guerrilla forces yesterday morning killed at least three junta soldiers...
2010-12-23
The 23 Burmese crewmen of Liberian-flagged container ship MSC Panama, hijacked early this month by Somali pirates, have been allowed to contact their...
2010-12-21
Transocean, the Swiss-American drilling firm being sued by the United States for its role in the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has...
2010-12-18
Norway’s government has been accused of being “complicit in land confiscation, forced labour, killings, and upholding a repressive military regime in...