Mizzima
2009-09-07
Incessant heavy rains have inundated several houses in Laputta Town in Burma’s coastal Irrawaddy delta, forcing residents to move to higher ground,...
2009-09-07
The Burmese military junta’s pressure notwithstanding, the Kachin people have rejected the regime’s proposal of transforming the Kachin Independence...
2009-09-07
A manpower training and consultancy firm FranklinCovey has explored options of setting-up an office in Burma, and will begin operations by the next...
2009-09-04
Owners of Burmese (Myanmar) garment factories and the Turkey Tema Group negotiated a 6.5 million dollar garment deal in Rangoon...
2009-09-04
The Rangoon divisional court on Friday accepted the request by Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers for an appeal on the conviction that has confined the Nobel...
2009-09-03
An environment organization has urged the military junta to impose a nationwide ban on the use of eco-unfriendly polythene bags in Burma...
2009-09-03
All industrial zones in Rangoon have been instructed by the City Electric Power Supply Committee to direct factories to install the ‘capacitor bank...
2009-09-03
Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers on Thursday filed an appeal in the Rangoon divisional court regarding the sentencing and are preparing to submit their...
2009-09-02
Nearly 6,000 people, who fled to China because of the war between the Burmese Army and the Kokang troops, have gone back to their homes. In the...
2009-09-02
Environmentalists have urged the Chinese government to halt plans to construct dams on the Salween River following renewed clashes between the...
2009-09-02
An international school in Rangoon, Burma’s former capital, was compelled to declare a holiday for a week after at least five students were detected...
2009-09-01
An uneasy calm has returned to the Chinese border with Burma after a series of diplomatic exchanges between the two countries. A Burmese delegation...
2009-09-01
China on Monday gifted five railway locomotives and 220 passenger and freight coaches to military ruled Burma to help the country extend its railway...
2009-09-01
As the second anniversary of the Saffron Revolution draws near, arrests, searches and monitoring of monks have been stepped up by the authorities in...
2009-09-01
The United States on Monday expressed its “deep concern” over the Burmese military junta’s attacks on ethnic nationality groups and exhorted the...