News
September 22, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
A Burmese refugee woman in India’s capital New Delhi was taken to hospital on suspicion of being infected with influenza type A (H1N1) on Sunday...
September 22, 2009
A new rule determining the age has been introduced for marriage for the Rohingya people in northern Arakan, in Burma recently, said an aide of Nasaka...
September 22, 2009
Members of the central executive committee of Burma’s major opposition – the National League for Democracy – have requested for permission from the...
September 22, 2009
The Mudon Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) have ordered that the residents of three villages in Mudon Township, in Mon State, pay a...
September 22, 2009
The Commander of Burma’s border security forces (Nasaka) sector number 3, imposed curfew from 20:00hours to 5:00 hours since September 1 in his area...
September 22, 2009
The Burmese military junta released 99 prisoners from Buthidung jail between September 18 to 19, according to official sources from Buthidaung. The...
September 22, 2009
| Phanida
Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from low blood pressure, her doctor said, after a medical check-up on Sunday, the...
September 22, 2009
A teenage Lisu tribal girl was gang-raped and murdered on September 8 by a group of Burmese policemen in the Burmese border town Mongkoe, the former...
September 21, 2009
In an apparent attempt to discourage any alliance between the ceasefire groups, who are at loggerheads with Naypyitaw over the proposed Border Guard...
September 21, 2009
| Mungpi
The US embassy in Rangoon has received consular access to detained citizen, Kyaw Zaw Lwin, on Sunday, weeks after he was arrested. “The U.S. embassy...
September 21, 2009
| Myo Thein
Eint Khaing Oo, a reporter released from incarceration on Friday, said she did not do anything wrong in performing her professional responsibilities...
September 21, 2009
Khaing Kaung San, who was chairman of the Arakanese Patriotic Literature Club based in Bangkok, was released from Thayet prison on Friday in a...
September 19, 2009
| Usa Pichai
The Thai Labour and Human Rights Groups have submitted a petition to the United Nations Special Rapporteur Jorge A. Bustamante demanding an urgent...
September 19, 2009
| Phanida
Reporter Eint Khaing Oo and Editor Kyaw Kyaw Thant, arrested for reporting about victims of Cyclone Nargis, were among those freed from Insein prison...
September 18, 2009
While over 500 prisoners were released from Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison, only over a dozen of them were political prisoners. Among the released...