News
September 16, 2008
| Than Htike Oo
The United States based 'Human Rights Watch' on Monday named a Burmese rights activist, Bo Kyi, recipient of its 'Human Rights Defender Award' for...
September 16, 2008
Major-General Htain Maung' armed group, the Karen Peace Council has officially asked the Burmese regime in Karen State to be allowed to set up a gate...
September 16, 2008
Sittwe: Arakan's State capital Sittwe has become a major centre in the scheme of the Opposition's movement against the Burmese military junta due to...
September 16, 2008
| Than Htike Oo, Phanida
The 70-year-old mother of 88 Generation Student leader Aunt Phwe Kyaw arrested for staging protests against the regime has also been arrested and is...
September 16, 2008
Local journalists are up in arms over censorship but can do little but unanimously voice that they are facing severe censorship at a time when the...
September 16, 2008
| Moe Thu and Htet Win
Burmese economists firmly believe the country's 'Export first, import second' foreign trade policy has a negative impact on industries and the...
September 16, 2008
Two university students in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in Northern Burma were taken in by traffic police on Saturday evening (Sept. 13)...
September 16, 2008
A Burmese Army battalion has been forcibly collecting money from residents to buy arms. The reason offered is that it is meant to protect the people...
September 16, 2008
Waterborne diseases like dysentery, pneumonia and diarrhea have broken out in Maungdaw since August last week, according to Maungdaw villagers ...
September 15, 2008
The Burmese military junta today withdrew its orders on an ethnic Kachin Baptist Church in a corner of the main China-Burma border trade zone in Muse...
September 15, 2008
The Southeast Command of the Burmese Army plans to extend agricultural land up to 1 million acres in Mon State according to The New Light of Myanmar...
September 15, 2008
Burmese military junta authorities on Sunday transferred five political prisoners on the Danyawaddy ferry ship from Sittwe to Buthidaung prison with...
September 15, 2008
| Phanida
Local Burmese military junta authorities have banned leaders of the Opposition National League for Democracy party from travelling outside their...
September 15, 2008
Teknaf, Bangladesh: A Burmese passenger boat was robbed by Bangladeshi robbers on September 11, at about 7 pm. The boat was heading to Ywet Nhyo...
September 15, 2008
In an alarming situation, insects breeding in bio-fuel plants called Castor oil plants also called Jet Suu in Burmese have killed at least a dozen...