News
December 18, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
Hkun Htun Oo (66), detained chairman of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), Burma’s second largest winning party in the 1990...
December 18, 2009
| Myint Maung
Ethnic political leaders in Burma on Thursday welcomed leaders of the National League for Democracy party’s consideration reforming party leadership...
December 18, 2009
Mr. H.C. Thawnga a Chin has organized the first ‘Solo Wildlife Cartoon Exhibition’ at the Vanapa Hall in Aizawl city, capital of Mizoram in northeast...
December 18, 2009
Gold mining activity has begun in areas to be flooded by the dam on Burma’s famous Irrawaddy River confluence in Kachin State before the contentious...
December 18, 2009
| Phanida
Workers of the Wong Hong Hung textile factory in Rangoon called off their demonstration following successful negotiations with company officials...
December 18, 2009
According to the December 15th edition of the Thai news publication The Nation, Thailand plans to open up four new trade checkpoints along the...
December 17, 2009
| Takaloo
Motorcycle users in western Burma's Arakan State are facing a new challenge with the introduction of a compulsory new license that costs double the...
December 17, 2009
Two ceasefire groups, since its acceptance “in principle” of the paramilitary status under the Burmese Army’s supervision, are under pressure to...
December 17, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
One of Burmese Army’s top commanders, Chairman of Shan State (East) Peace and Development Council and Commander of Kengtung-based Triangle Region...
December 17, 2009
| Khonumthung News
Two candidates have been nominated by the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) in November for the Tonzang and Chikha constituencies...
December 17, 2009
| Mungpi
Nobel Laureate Prof. Joseph Stiglitz said Burma needs an all inclusive economic process in order to achieve stability and security as “Economics and...
December 17, 2009
Ironically, relief efforts by the World Food Program under the United Nations have given a leg up to opium cultivation in Burma’s northern Kachin...
December 17, 2009
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Four villagers belonging to Maungdaw Township have been spending days and nights in Nasaka area number six since December 7,...
December 17, 2009
| Mizzima News group
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is not interested in expanding its Trade Finance Facilitation Program (TFFP) in Burma calling it a ‘sensitive’...
December 17, 2009
| KNG
A mining official from Naypyitaw was accidentally injured in a bomb blast over a month ago from a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) planted explosive in...