News
October 3, 2009
| Usa Pichai
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Tripartite Core Group will raise US$ 103 million for Post-Nargis Humanitarian Activities, even as it has...
October 3, 2009
The Burmese military junta seems bent on eliminating the ethnic Kachin rebel brigade in Northeast Shan State if they do not toe the junta’s line...
October 3, 2009
| Mungpi
The divisional court in Rangoon on Friday rejected the appeal of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, upholding a lower court’s decision that...
October 3, 2009
| Brian McCartan
A report released this week by Washington-based advocacy group Refugees International praised Thailand for its current refugee policy, but noted the...
October 1, 2009
| Mungpi
The fall out of US-Burma relations will not be judged by the number of meetings but by the progress made in terms of human rights and democracy, and...
October 1, 2009
The Burmese military junta is trying to seize a plot of land with a cemetery belonging to an ethnic Kachin Christian church in Myitkyina, capital of...
October 1, 2009
| Mungpi
The United States and Burma on Tuesday held their first meeting in the wake of the new US policy, even as Virginian Senator James Webb hosts a...
October 1, 2009
A special operation group has been monitoring drug inflow from upper Burma to northern Arakan since September 28, according to an officer from...
October 1, 2009
Since the year 2000 the Burmese Army has been conducting a series of war games codenamed Sun Ye (Swooping Kite), ostensibly to defend Burma against...
September 30, 2009
| Mungpi
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday denied media reports that local Burmese authorities had ordered Chinese citizens in North-eastern Shan...
September 30, 2009
| Phanida
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), an ethnic armed group in Northern Burma, have proposed the junta to cooperate with some of its...
September 30, 2009
Unique mortars laced with chemical ingredients are being supplied by the junta to its military battalions in Kachin State and Shan State, said...
September 30, 2009
The authorities of the registered refugee camp (Kutupalong) destroyed about 100 houses of unregistered refugees living near the UNHCR registered...
September 30, 2009
| Mungpi
In what appears to be the first step of engagement, US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell on Tuesday met Burmese delegates led by Minister of...
September 30, 2009
The Panghsang-based United Wa State Army (UWSA) and Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS) have each denied...