News
December 8, 2009
| Mungpi
Indian Minister for External Affairs (MEA) S.M Krishna will commence a three-day visit to Burma, on Wednesday for a multilateral meeting to be held...
December 7, 2009
Students of a government joint-middle school in a rural area in Burma's northern Kachin State are being forcibly used to clean a Buddhist temple even...
December 7, 2009
The Burmese military junta while conducting volunteer fire fighting training programmes is also teaching the constitution to the trainees of the fire...
December 7, 2009
A former liaison officer attached to the ousted Kokang leader Peng Jiasheng was sentenced by the court in Lashio, Shan State North capital, to 12...
December 5, 2009
| Mungpi
A Burmese delegation led by Prime Minister Thein Sein will travel to Denmark to attend the COP 15 or United Nations Conference on Climate Change in...
December 4, 2009
| Tin Soe
The National Unity Party (NUP) has started campaigning for the 2010 elections in southern Maungdaw since November 26, said a local elder from...
December 4, 2009
Teashops, restaurants and beauty parlours in Rangoon have started removing television sets from their shops as the Video Association has ordered that...
December 4, 2009
Repair work began in detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s colonial-era home on Thursday after six construction workers were allowed...
December 4, 2009
| Ar Kar
A Mon splinter group that recently signed a ceasefire with the Burmese military government has spent the first two weeks of its new status detained...
December 4, 2009
In a blatant attempt at fleecing people the immigration department of Tawnzang township, Chin state has demanded Kyat 1 lakh for registration called...
December 4, 2009
Assailed verbally from left and right, Harn Yawnghwe, the youngest son of the first President of independent Burma and Director of the Brussels-based...
December 4, 2009
| Par Reh
With the Karenni Nationalities People’s Liberation Front (KNPLF) transformed to the Border Guard Force (BGF), people in Karenni State will face...
December 4, 2009
| Nan Htoo San
The Burmese Army based in Taung Oo region is forcing many locals, including women to work against their will, locals said. Army battalions under the...
December 3, 2009
| Takaloo
The prices of Burmese timber in Bangladesh are falling with increasing exports from Burma, said a Burmese timber trader, currently in Teknaf, a...
December 3, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
The Burmese Army and the United Wa State Army (UWSA) are said to have been put on high alert and are intensively preparing for an anticipated...