News
April 24, 2008
| S.H.A.N
A growing number of impoverished farmers in the Wa region on the Sino-Burma border has been urging the Wa authorities to allow revival of poppy...
April 24, 2008
| Nay Thwin
Chiang Mai – Analysts and critics at home and abroad are concerned over the possibility of rigging in the referendum seeking approval of the...
April 23, 2008
| IMNA
The military brass in Nay Pyi Taw has sent three delegates to look into the 54 deaths of migrant workers who suffocated inside a container of a ten-...
April 23, 2008
| Narinjara News
Burmese military junta authorities in Arakan State have been wooing Muslim community members in Sittwe to cast the "yes" vote in the ensuing...
April 23, 2008
| Narinjara News
Two village level leaders from Kyaukpru Township in Arakan State were brutally killed after being arrested by the police from a hide out in the...
April 23, 2008
| Mizzima News
The United States is reporting that high profile political prisoner Min Ko Naing is at risk of losing his eyesight due to the intransigence of...
April 23, 2008
| IMNA
Myanmar 's attempt to hold a constitutional referendum may be running into problems thanks to the lack of a video cassette. At a meeting held...
April 23, 2008
| Phanida
The Burmese military junta, today accused members of the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors (VBSW) of being involved in the bomb blasts, which rocked...
April 23, 2008
| Phanida & Solomon
Venerable Burmese monk Ashin U Gambira was recently honoured with the London-based Index on Censorship's Freedom of Expression Award, 2008, for his...
April 23, 2008
| Mizzima News
Chiang Mai – Burmese citizens in Thailand desirous of voting in the referendum to approve the draft constitution of the military junta can vote at...
April 22, 2008
| New Lay
Close to 150 houses owned by Shan migrants living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, face the threat of demolition by the authorities.
April 22, 2008
| Phanida
Chiang Mai - The world's oldest and longest wooden bridge in Burma's second largest city of Mandalay collapsed last week, when it failed to support a...
April 22, 2008
| IMNA
About 50 Muslims survived when their boat drifted into a costal Mon village in southern Mon state after they faced drastic food shortage for a week...
April 21, 2008
| Asohn Vi
On April 15 at about 4 p.m. three villagers were seriously injured when a Mon guerilla group fired five rounds and hurled a small grenade from a hand...
April 19, 2008
| Kaladan
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Many goods like--- fish, rice, Plums, cheek pea, Teak, (Ka Nyin) large tree yielding wood oil among others--- have been coming to...