News
February 12, 2010
Restrictions have been imposed on internet cafes in Sittwe by the Special Police Department to prevent users from sending information and photographs...
February 12, 2010
| Takaloo
The Department of Inland Water Transport in western Burma's Arakan State is gearing up to privatize the main inland harbour on Satrokya Creek in...
February 12, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
The Burmese Army set on fire around 70 houses in two Karen villages in Bago division forcing over 1,000 villagers to flee, according to armed ethnic...
February 12, 2010
| Ukhiya
A woman refugee from the unofficial Kutupalong refugee camp was killed and her husband seriously injured by an elephant on February 11, at about 2:30...
February 12, 2010
| Phanida
Today is the 63rd anniversary of the Panlong Agreement, which envisaged a Union of Burma promising equality among all ethnic people in the...
February 12, 2010
Burmese battalion MOMC No.19 have been entered into KNU area around Three Pagoda Pass (TPP)-Thanphyuzayart road last 2009 December and battalion MOMC...
February 12, 2010
| Khai Suu
For workers in Burma the need of the hour is trade unions to protect labour rights and help provide social security, Burmese workers...
February 12, 2010
The Manau Festival spans countries, history and people. The ethnic community in Kachin state in northern Burma and in the northeastern states of...
February 12, 2010
| Usa Pichai
Thailand’s judiciary on Thursday said it will not indict five crew members arrested from an aircraft carrying illicit armaments which landed in...
February 12, 2010
The prepared speech commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the Union Day, 12 February 2010, the day leaders of Burma, Shan, Chin and Kachin concluded...
February 12, 2010
| Kyaukpru
Prostitution has been on the increase dramatically over the last year in Kyauk Pru, the second largest city in Arakan, after many government projects...
February 11, 2010
Even as the Malaysian Department of Immigration prepares for a nation-wide crackdown on the country’s scores of illegal migrant workers on February...
February 11, 2010
Arakanese Rohingya people are being arrested by Burma’s border security force, Nasaka, on false accusations to extort money. They torture the...
February 11, 2010
| Phanida
Some ethnic parties and a number of politicians are already in the election fray in Burma this year and are into an expansion mode and organizational...
February 11, 2010
| KNG
Hundreds of ethnic Kachin Roman Catholic Church followers gathered today at the construction site of the hydropower project on the Irrawaddy River,...