Mizzima
2010-07-02
State lottery ticket sales have been falling since last week amid the distraction of the World Cup, forcing retailers to sell tickets at cost,...
2010-07-02
India’s government has donated power transformers to Burma, according to the Indian embassy in Rangoon, to bring electricity to homes in some of the...
2010-07-01
A political prisoner and leader of the 2007 generation All Burma Federation of Student Unions, Di Nyein Lin, who is suffering from an eye disorder,...
2010-07-01
More than 900 people in Rangoon Division were infected with dengue fever and six died in the first four months of this year, according to state-run...
2010-07-01
Activists from the Free Burma Coalition Philippines have called for stronger policies and more concrete action on democratisation in Burma from the...
2010-06-30
A “People’s Court” in Japan passed its verdict on Monday to put the Burmese military regime on trial at the International Criminal Court for its...
2010-06-30
The Canadian Friends of Burma has called on the government of Canada to investigate reports first made by Mizzima that Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines...
2010-06-30
Fifteen Burmese migrant workers were detained during Thailand’s recent political unrest, according to the Thai Action Committee for Democracy...
2010-06-30
Publishers in Burma have expressed concern over the formation of new censorship teams under the junta’s tough media watchdog fearing even further...
2010-06-29
Burmese authorities are allowing hoteliers to import “tourist sightseeing vehicles”, holding a lottery among proprietors for permits to import a...
2010-06-28
A scheduled European Union high-level visit to Burma was cancelled recently after the Burmese ruling junta denied a request from the EU Presidency...
2010-06-27
One of China’s biggest arms makers signed a contract with a Burmese junta-controlled entity this month involving “co-operation” in a Monywa copper...
2010-06-25
Burmese activists in Australia are not expecting any big foreign policy shifts on Burma, they said, after Julia Gillard was sworn in as the country’s...
2010-06-24
Thirty-one Rohingya refugees in a detention centre in Darwin, Australia are entering the 10th day of a hunger strike today in protest at the...
2010-06-24
US Senator John Kerry’s assistant Robin Lerner met senior members of the National League for Democracy on Tuesday to discuss the party’s stance on...