Mizzima
2013-06-24
The Chinese financiers of the suspended Myitsone Dam project, China Power Investment Cooperation (CPI), have told local Kachin residents that they...
2013-06-24
The Dawei Watch Group has said that a local resident is planning to sue the Italian-Thai Construction Company (ITD) for losses incurred when the Thai...
2013-06-24
The development of a 288-acre Special Economic Zone in Muse, Shan State, has been announced at a joint shareholder meeting of Myanmar construction...
2013-06-24
The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and the Myanmar government agreed an eight-point plan last week to push ahead with a nationwide...
2013-06-21
Three civil rights activists spoke up to defend their own rights at a press conference on Thursday at the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society Office...
2013-06-21
A group of 12 Nobel laureates have called upon Thein Sein and Myanmar’s leadership to open an investigation into the anti-Muslim violence and make...
2013-06-21
Hopefully a thing of the past—Chin villagers forced to build a road. Photo: Chin Human Rights Organization
2013-06-21
Japan’s Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has been fined US$250,000 million by the state of New York for illicit laundering transactions with...
2013-06-21
A surge in drug trafficking activity around the Shan and Kachin border areas is due to higher populations of displaced people, not poor law...
2013-06-21
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has criticised a proposal by nationalist monks to restrict marriages between Buddhist women and men of...
2013-06-20
An administrative officer in Maw Taung, Tanintharyi Region, has been accused of illegally selling 200 acres of land planned for refugees returning...
2013-06-20
Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, the chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State/ Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) has called for both the Myanmar government and...
2013-06-20
Aung Sun Suu Kyi, opposition leader and head of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD), has united with leaders from five major ethnic...
2013-06-20
The Burma Centre for Ethnic Studies has cast doubts over the authenticity of allegations circulated in many media outlets suggesting that the United...
2013-06-19
CONTRIBUTOR - Earlier this month, leading government, industry and civil society leaders descended upon Naypyitaw for the 22nd World Economic Forum...