News
June 24, 2013
| KNG
A Burma army column overtook the Ngaw Nga post manned by the Taang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and allies of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)...
June 22, 2013
| Narinjara
Probably the tallest man of the world is living in Burma. The exciting news is generated by Myanmar News Now that a Burmese citizen with the height...
June 22, 2013
| Narinjara
A notorious Burmese bandit was arrested after an early morning gunfight broke out between his gang of robbers and the Bangladesh police near Cox’s...
June 21, 2013
| S.H.A.N
Yesterday before noon, the Burma Army’s Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 506 attacked the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) base at...
June 21, 2013
| IMNA
The trafficking and use of drugs within the Mon communities is systemic, and there are no government initiatives in place to prevent this, said a new...
June 21, 2013
| Mizzima
Three civil rights activists spoke up to defend their own rights at a press conference on Thursday at the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society Office...
June 21, 2013
| Mizzima
A group of 12 Nobel laureates have called upon Thein Sein and Myanmar’s leadership to open an investigation into the anti-Muslim violence and make...
June 21, 2013
| Mizzima
Hopefully a thing of the past—Chin villagers forced to build a road. Photo: Chin Human Rights Organization
June 21, 2013
| Mizzima
Japan’s Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has been fined US$250,000 million by the state of New York for illicit laundering transactions with...
June 21, 2013
| Mizzima
A surge in drug trafficking activity around the Shan and Kachin border areas is due to higher populations of displaced people, not poor law...
June 21, 2013
| KNG
More than 100 villagers fled their homes in northern Shan state following heavy clashes between Burma army forces and the Kachin Independence Army (...
June 21, 2013
| Mizzima
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has criticised a proposal by nationalist monks to restrict marriages between Buddhist women and men of...
June 21, 2013
| Kaladan Press
Three more bodies believed to be victims of a capsized boat that sank on June 16 were recently recovered in the Bay of Bengal near Teknaf Upazila,...
June 20, 2013
| S.H.A.N
It is reported that the RCSS delegation is now arriving in Taunggyi and has scheduled to meet some of city’s high profiles government officials, and...
June 20, 2013
| S.H.A.N
After being shrouded in secrecy for months, it was disclosed at a recent meeting in Chiangmai that the long-awaited draft framework for the planned...