Mizzima
2009-06-26
The United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and related organizations have held activities in honor of World Refugee Day in Mae Sot, a...
2009-06-26
Thai surveyors and Burmese authorities are surveying the Tenasserim River, in Burma’s southernmost Tenasserim Division, for a potential dam site to...
2009-06-25
Burma’s Censorship Board has restricted local journals from reporting on the progress of the North Korean vessel, Kang Nam. The restriction came...
2009-06-25
Burma’s Chief of Police, Khin Yi, on Thursday accused opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for having not adequately informed police of the details of...
2009-06-24
The Burmese Army has significantly increased its military presence in northern and eastern Burma, where ethnic ceasefire armed groups are based,...
2009-06-24
There is heightened security in Rangoon with at least 30 army trucks with uniformed riot police personnel, patrolling the city on Wednesday. The army...
2009-06-24
Burma’s High Court on Wednesday heard defense arguments for allowing two more witnesses in the controversial trial against pro-democracy leader Aung...
2009-06-24
The government of Thailand has been urged by Asian lawmakers and activists not to repatriate Karen refugees, who recently fled to Thailand in the...
2009-06-23
While urging the regime to conduct a fair trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday said the issue is an...
2009-06-23
The office in-charge of the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association (MWJA), Myint Lwin, committed suicide on Tuesday by jumping off the three-...
2009-06-23
A North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons and possibly en route to Burma was plying the waters off Shanghai on Tuesday morning, as...
2009-06-23
Authorities in Thailand are allegedly encouraging ethnic Karen refugees recently arrived in the wake of fresh fighting in eastern Burma to return to...
2009-06-22
As the United States continues to track a North Korean frigate off the coast of China, analysts are calling for closer inspection of the vessel in...
2009-06-22
United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari is scheduled to arrive in Burma later this week to pave the way for the proposed visit of U.N. Secretary...
2009-06-19
The Bahan Township Court has sentenced the former chief reporter of the The News Watch journal, Zaw Tun, to two years imprisonment. The court...