News
June 16, 2009
| Solomon
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) has signed a trade agreement with the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce (...
June 15, 2009
| Rai Maraoh
Many farmers in Mon state are in a spot due to heavy rains, which have destroyed their rice seedlings by inundating the paddy, according to farmers...
June 15, 2009
| SarYin
In many congested areas in Moulmein, such as teashops, government offices and markets, there has been a marked increase in security. “Now they [...
June 15, 2009
Four officials of the Buthidaung prison, including a prison warden and the jailer were relieved of their responsibilities after leakage of...
June 15, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
A total of eight out of 17 official ceasefire groups across Burma have turned down the Burmese military junta’s proposal that all ceasefire groups...
June 15, 2009
| Usa Pichai
Thailand’s Army Chief has insisted that no armed group has entered Thai territory, after the recent clashes between the armed wing of the Karen...
June 15, 2009
Fishing boat owners in Mayrullah (Myinn Hlut) and Shilkhali villages of Nasska area No. 8 in Maungdaw Township were forced to gift 13 heads of cattle...
June 15, 2009
Last month, two Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC) Chairmen of Maungdaw Township fled from their village to evade arrest by Nasaka. They...
June 15, 2009
More than 100 former political prisoners world wide, have put their signatures on a statement calling for the release of Burmese democracy icon Aung...
June 15, 2009
The police have been arresting more and more Burmese nationals staying illegally in Mizoram state, northeast India. A report said that four Chin...
June 15, 2009
Students in Burma's northern city of Myitkyina have been threatened that they will be thrown out of their schools if they do not pay for a specific...
June 13, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
The Shan State Army (SSA) South has been toiling to look for new recruits among the migrant population, according to a Shan case researcher Ms Amporn...
June 13, 2009
| Kon Hadae and Blai Mon
Burma’s military junta this week issued its first request that the country’s largest Mon ceasefire group bring its army under nominal state control...
June 13, 2009
| Kon Hadai and Blai Mon
A group of Mon monks and students have sent a letter to Burma’s largest Mon political party urging it not to transform its armed wing into a...
June 13, 2009
Phae Thann Oo, the Burmese ambassador in Dhaka, has asked the Bangladeshi authority to provide strong evidence of Rohingyas’ Burmese citizenship,...