News
September 9, 2009
| Daniel Perderson
Feuding militia leaders have brought a halt to a damaging Burmese military advance through territory claimed by the Karen National Liberation Army...
September 9, 2009
A number of youths have been forced to flee to Mizoram state in northeast India to avoid being conscripted by the Burmese Army for military training...
September 9, 2009
The military authority has deployed many additional police forces at every intersection throughout Sittwe to prevent any incidents during the 70th...
September 9, 2009
Six Arakanese university students, some recently graduated, have been missing since they were arrested by police in Rangoon, the former capital of...
September 8, 2009
| Mungpi
If China is protecting the Burmese military junta, calling Burma’s problems “its internal affair” and blocking a United Nations Security Council...
September 8, 2009
| May Kyaw
U Gaw Thita, an abbot belonging to the Leik Pyar Kan monastery, Nga Htat Gyi pagoda was arrested at the Rangoon airport on his way back from Taiwan...
September 8, 2009
| Asah
Mon youth released a traditional hot air balloon that was painted with a statement condemning Burmese government oppression of Mon culture and its...
September 8, 2009
Delegates of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), one of the largest ethnic ceasefire groups in military-ruled Burma arrived in Myitkyina last...
September 8, 2009
In what seems to be tactics to divert attention, the Burmese Army has been deploying and redeploying troops and armour in Kachin State, Shan State...
September 8, 2009
The Burmese Army will use heavy weaponry and jet fighters if it takes on the Wa and Mongla groups, a high ranking officer from Naypyidaw has let on...
September 8, 2009
| Ni Moe Myint
For the first time in three decades, the monsoon in Burma will be about 30 days shorter this year, according to the Meteorology and Hydrology...
September 8, 2009
Burmese Army personnel posted in Chin state are selling their rations – rice, beans and milk, which they get from the central government, after which...
September 8, 2009
Thirty Rohingya refugees from five families have been selected for resettlement in New Zealand, according to a refugee from the Nayapara camp...
September 8, 2009
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been taking the initiative for spreading education in two Burmese refugee camps under the Cox’s...
September 8, 2009
Telephone and internet connections were cut off in Kokang during gun battles between the Kokang Army and government troops, said residents and...