News
November 6, 2009
| Mungpi
A new charge was added to the existing ones against Burmese born American, Kyaw Zaw Lwin (alias) Nyi Nyi Aung by a district court in Rangoon on...
November 6, 2009
Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) Director Lt. Col Aung Gyi ordered villagers in Maungdaw north on November 1, to renovate the road, connecting...
November 6, 2009
In a bid at extortion, seven passenger cars were stopped and fined heavily this week on the Myitkyina-Laiza border trade route in Burma's northern...
November 5, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
The recent drug bonfire in northern Shan State’s Kokang by junta officials could have been one of the regime’s ploys to wipe out ceasefire groups,...
November 5, 2009
| Salai Hanthar San
Mounting maintenance costs have pushed up the toll tax on the Rangoon-Mandalay highway twofold, representatives of two companies responsible for the...
November 5, 2009
| Asah
The living conditions of a well-known political dissident have improved at Insein prison, according to his wife. However other activists who have...
November 5, 2009
U Oo Bo Thein, Chairman of the Rakhine State Chamber of Commerce and Industry, or CCI, will run in the forthcoming 2010 election in Rathidaung...
November 5, 2009
An Indian ethnic insurgent group has constructed a motor road, which is 25 miles in length, from Khampat town, Sagaing division to Singtial village,...
November 5, 2009
More Rohingyas, including women and children were arrested by police and handed over to the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR). They were pushed back to Burma...
November 5, 2009
Burmese tycoon Tay Za, a son-in-law of Burma's junta supremo Snr-Gen Than Shwe, is planning to contest from Puta-O township in northern Kachin State...
November 5, 2009
The UNHCR in Bangladesh held a two-day meeting with urban Burmese refugees in the border town of Cox's Bazar with the aim of improving conditions for...
November 5, 2009
| Nan Htoo San
Over 2,500 villagers have gone into hiding in the jungle after the Burmese Army launched military operations in Nyaung Laybin district in the KNU's...
November 4, 2009
| Rai Maraoh
A boatload of migrant workers, crossing illegally from Burma to Thailand, capsized in heavy winds. Only a portion of the passengers have been...
November 4, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
Registered migrants from Burma, Laos and Cambodia and other minorities in the country have been granted the right to buy motor vehicles, said an...
November 4, 2009
| Mungpi
Burma’s main opposition party – the National League for Democracy – on Wednesday told the visiting United States diplomats to include the revision of...