News
October 22, 2008
| Hseng Khio Fah
As regional commanders of the Burmese Army continue to persuade ceasefire groups to surrender, some ceasefire groups are continuing drilling their...
October 22, 2008
The ailing Wa leader Bao Youxiang has named his younger brother to succeed him, according to reports from the Sino-Burma border. Bao Youliang (55)...
October 22, 2008
A list of the number of acres of farmland being cultivated in Kalay Township in Sagaing Division, northwest Burma is being compiled by the Burmese...
October 21, 2008
| Solomon
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the release of detained Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other political...
October 21, 2008
| Zarni & Mungpi
Burma's state media on Tuesday blamed a bomb blast on Sunday evening that killed a man in Rangoon's suburban township of Shwepyithar on the victim...
October 21, 2008
The Karen National Union (KNU) has recently paid compensation to a woman whose daughter drowned in an accident on the Zemi River, says a survivor ...
October 21, 2008
As Naypyidaw does a double take alternating between being a good and bad guy towards the major rebel armies that have maintained uneasy truces with...
October 21, 2008
| Phanida
Famous painter Wathone died of pulmonary tuberculosis this morning. He was 61 and is survived by his wife San Aye, two sons and two daughters...
October 21, 2008
| Nam Davies
The Chief Correspondent of the 'Flower' journal, detained for over a month for covering a double murder in Thigangyun, Rangoon, was released from...
October 21, 2008
A new international think tank report argues that the success of post-Nargis international aid operations demands a rethinking of Burmese aid...
October 21, 2008
Businessmen in Loije, Bhamo District, Kachin State are in a spot following restriction in border trade by the Burmese military junta authorities...
October 21, 2008
| Panida
Lack of faith in the judiciary has forced four people detained for participating in the Saffron Revolution to withdraw general power from lawyers...
October 20, 2008
| Solomon
United Kingdom retailer Cotton Traders has said it will sever business links with military-ruled Burma, less than a week after campaigners launched a...
October 20, 2008
Major General Khin Zaw, Ministry of Defence, led a 50-member delegation including Chairman of Arakan State Peace and Development Council, Commander...
October 20, 2008
| Huai Pi
Defence lawyers of leaders of the Mandalay Division of National League for Democracy have contested the wrong date of their arrest by the prosecution...