News
October 22, 2014
| Mizzima
Chin organisations are seeking input from their community on proposed changes to the out-dated Chin Special Division Act of 1948. Representatives of...
October 22, 2014
| Mizzima
Myanmar Football’s crowd trouble has once again found them in trouble, as the Asian Football Confederation fined the Myanmar Football Federation US$...
October 22, 2014
| Mizzima
The planned 2015 general elections will not be postponed, the Union Election Commission chairman U Tin Aye told news media on 20th October.
October 22, 2014
| Mizzima
The parents of the two suspects in the Koh Tao murder case should have received their Thai visas yesterday (21st October) and should fly to Thailand...
October 22, 2014
| Mizzima
A leader of the negotiating team seeking to hammer out a draft ceasefire agreement between armed ethnic groups and President U Thein Sein’s...
October 22, 2014
The Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) has been staking out mosques, madrasas (religious schools) and cemeteries at night since the second week of...
October 22, 2014
| Translated by BNI
The Tatmadaw (government army) carried out surprise searches of ethnic Ta’ang (Palaung) people’s homes in Lwe-Sar Village on the outskirts of Namkhan...
October 22, 2014
| KIC
In an exclusive interview with Karen News, General Baw Kyaw Heh, the Karen National Liberation Army's (KNLA) Vice-Chief of Staff, explained his...
October 21, 2014
| KNG
In statement release on Sunday 19th October, an alliance of Karen women’s organisations gave their support to plans for four Karen armed groups to...
October 21, 2014
| Mizzima
About 30 former servicemen and retired officials staged a protest in Yangon October 19 saying the Myanmar Army should be based on a federal system,...
October 20, 2014
| Translated by BNI
Homeowner Pa Nan Khoung (a.k.a. Daw Shan Ma) and another four other people were killed and three others were injured when a landslide, caused by...
October 20, 2014
| Translated by BNI
Whilst government and Shan State Progressive Party (SSPP/SSA) delegates held talks on 18th October to urge cooperation and peace the government were...
October 20, 2014
| Translated by BNI
An ethnic Chin Burmese citizen was arrested for being in possession of 5,000 rounds of 5.56mm ammunition 0n 16th October at Border Trade Camp No. 2...
October 20, 2014
| Narinjara
An unusual baby with both male and female genital organs was born in a government hospital in Arakan State, western Burma, said a source in the...
October 20, 2014
| Narinjara
The Rakhine state government plans to set up a new inland port in Maungdaw, a western Burma border town, to boost trades with neighbouring Bangladesh...