News
March 30, 2009
Six houses were gutted and reduced to ashes in a fire in Hakha city in Chin state, Burma , on March 26, 2009. A local person reported that the fire...
March 30, 2009
| Mon Son and Blai Mon
An ethnic Karen armed group has opened a new office in Three Pagodas Pass. The new presence in the border town follows reports that the group would...
March 30, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
A Burmese ethnic Mon ceasefire group, New Mon State Party (NMSP), has denied a rumor of possible further talks in the near future between the...
March 30, 2009
| Usa Pichai
A labor rights group on Monday condemned the Thai government for denying Burmese migrants access to a workers compensation fund through Thailand’s...
March 30, 2009
In a bid to meet the demand for power in the country, Bangladesh is keen to set up a 1,000 MW nuclear power plant in the next decade, with potential...
March 30, 2009
A political party set up by former NLD members in Arakan State and favoured by the Burmese military junta has opened its main office in Sittwe, the...
March 30, 2009
The Mon community is keen on news relating to the global financial meltdown and its affect on their local business community, Kaowao has learnt...
March 28, 2009
| Mungpi
China and Burma on Thursday signed four contracts, which included the construction of a cross border oil and gas pipeline, Burma’s state-run media...
March 27, 2009
| Arkar , Mi Mon Son
Members of a respected Mon political group applaud a recent visit by a US State Department official after meeting with him in Rangoon on Wednesday,...
March 27, 2009
| Mon Son and Blai Mon
The key decision making body of the primary political party representing Mon people has agreed to meet with the SPDC general charged with organizing...
March 27, 2009
A lone demonstrator in Twante Township, Rangoon was arrested by the police on Friday, an eyewitness said. Aung Phe, a private tutor, was detained by...
March 27, 2009
A powerful explosion at dawn on March 19 in Lashio, the capital of Shan State North, left a one and-a-half feet wide and two feet deep crater,...
March 27, 2009
| Mungpi
Burma’s main opposition political party the National League for Democracy said it has urged the United States to initiate talks with the ruling junta...
March 27, 2009
A Rohingya trader was killed by Natala villagers, while two others have been reported missing, when they were crossing the Nga-kyidauk mountain pass...
March 27, 2009
China is secretly spiriting away Molybdenum (Mo) metal, also called Mukuang in Chinese from Burma's northern Kachin State while working in several...