News
December 15, 2009
Farmers have been ordered to cultivate summer paddy by the Kalemyo Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) in order to control the market price...
December 14, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
The Mekong media has strongly urged one of its partners, the China media to publish more stories about the circumstances of the upstream region of...
December 14, 2009
Sittwe: Residents in Sittwe are currently suffering from imposition of high taxes by the municipal department for water, after a new water pipeline...
December 11, 2009
Ethnic Kachin symbols in Bhamo in Kachin State, northern Burma were ordered to be suddenly removed yesterday morning just before the arrival of the...
December 11, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will pay an official visit to military-ruled Burma during his tour of four Asian countries starting Monday,...
December 11, 2009
| Tin Soe
The Western Command Commander, Major General Thaung Aye arrived in Maungdaw today at about 8:00 hours, said a Maungdaw officer...
December 11, 2009
| Mungpi
Decades of exploitation by the rulers has led to Burma’s once assertive and independent judiciary system being reduced into an arm of the bureaucracy...
December 10, 2009
| Mungpi
On International Human Rights Day, 442 Members of Parliament from 29 countries on Thursday urged the United Nations Security Council to set up a...
December 10, 2009
| Takaloo
Major General Thaung Aye, Commander of the Burmese Army in Arakan State, has directed local officers at the district and township level...
December 10, 2009
The Burmese Army has recently announced it will purchase paddy from 10 out of 17 townships in Arakan State for army rations beginning January 2010...
December 10, 2009
10 December 2009: A village has been turned into a camp for 38 military personnel by the Burmese Army’s LIB 228, based in Lungler, Thantlang Township...
December 10, 2009
| Phanida
The National League for Democracy (NLD) has rubbished allegations by the state owned media, which has alleged Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD have...
December 10, 2009
Gearing up for the junta declared 2010 elections in Burma, an ethnic Kachin political party has opened 10 branch offices in main cities in Kachin...
December 9, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
In a sudden development, detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had a meeting again with Burmese military junta’s Liaison Minister Aung Kyi...
December 9, 2009
| Myo Gyi & Phanida
United Wa State Army (UWSA), an armed ceasefire group, has began briefing its rank and file of its policy of protecting their peace with arms early...