Mizzima
2009-09-19
The Thai Labour and Human Rights Groups have submitted a petition to the United Nations Special Rapporteur Jorge A. Bustamante demanding an urgent...
2009-09-19
Reporter Eint Khaing Oo and Editor Kyaw Kyaw Thant, arrested for reporting about victims of Cyclone Nargis, were among those freed from Insein prison...
2009-09-18
While over 500 prisoners were released from Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison, only over a dozen of them were political prisoners. Among the released...
2009-09-18
The Rangoon divisional court on Friday heard arguments on an appeal against the verdict of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and scheduled...
2009-09-18
Unless the over 2,200 political prisoners languishing in prisons across the country are included among the prisoners being freed, the amnesty...
2009-09-17
Burma’s military junta announced amnesty for over 7,000 prisoners across the country on Thursday, a day after the Human Rights Watch condemned the...
2009-09-17
Authorities on the Sino-Burma border towns of Muse and Nam Hkam in northern Shan State, have started taking photographs of families for registration...
2009-09-17
Detained for the past 11 years, Burmese rebels on Thursday told the City Sessions Court in India’s Kolkata city that they were falsely framed and...
2009-09-17
Burma’s state-run media on Thursday defended a decision barring pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from attending the hearing of her appeal...
2009-09-16
Industrial zones in Rangoon Division currently get electricity only for five hours per day as the Ministry of Energy has further reduced the power...
2009-09-16
Natural Gas transmission from Burma and the Thai Gulf has been disrupted due to a technical snag, with damages estimated at 1 billion Baht for...
2009-09-15
Aung San Suu Kyi’s request to the Rangoon Division of the Special Branch of Police to allow her to be present in court, which will hear her appeal...
2009-09-15
The City Sessions Court in India’s Kolkata city on Tuesday sought clarifications from 34 Burmese rebels, who are currently facing trial on charges of...
2009-09-15
National League for Democracy, Burma’s main opposition party, is consolidating its youth and women party members across the country and has formed ‘...
2009-09-15
To meet mounting telecommunication needs, Burmese authorities have decided to provide 150,000 CDMA telephones to residents of Mandalay and Rangoon,...