News
October 5, 2013
| Mizzima
Parliament gathered today to discuss claimsthat Myanmar did not settle its debts to the World Bank at least partially due to accusations that the...
October 4, 2013
| Narinjara
Day after the latest sectarian clashes broke out in Arakan State between the Buddhists and Muslim residents killing at least 5 people, the police...
October 4, 2013
| Mizzima
General Khun Okka, co-secretary of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), announced that the UNFC will not attend the Nationwide Ceasefire...
October 4, 2013
| Mizzima
The Myanmar government and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) held a preliminary meeting on Wednesday to prepare for the planned Union-level...
October 3, 2013
| Mizzima
Protesters are occupying a prominent park in downtown Yangon, seeking the return of land they claim was unlawfully taken from their ancestors by...
October 3, 2013
| Mizzima
The U.S. Embassy in Myanmar on Wednesday issued a press release condemning violence in Thandwe, Rakhine State, urging Myanmar authorities to respond...
October 2, 2013
| Mizzima
Continuing a wave of sectarian violence in western Myanmar, 44 homes were reported torched in Thandwe, Rakhine State, on October 1.
October 2, 2013
| Narinjara
Opposing voices against the Shwe gas project in Burma are mounting as ‘it sets a dangerous precedent for the extractive industries and leads to...
October 2, 2013
| Mizzima
Local residents from four States and Divisions through which the Kyaukphyu-Kunming gas pipeline traverses have told Mizzima they want the transport...
October 2, 2013
| Kaladan Press
Fevers and colds are spreading throughout the internally displaced people (IDP) camp, Zai Awng (also known as Mung Ga Zup), in eastern Kachin state's...
October 1, 2013
| Narinjara
Nearly 3000 residents of Rambree, a town located in Rambree Island of Arakan State, joined a demonstration today demanding 24 hours electricity...
October 1, 2013
| Kaladan Press
Police extorted money from the owners of a room that rents out space to watch DVD movies in northern Maungdaw on Sept. 21, according to a close...
September 30, 2013
| Mizzima
The Rakhine people presented Union Parliament Speaker Thura Shwe Mahn with a demand for forming of people’s militia units under the command of the...
September 30, 2013
| S.H.A.N
So I was back in Taunggyi, the town that I left in 1969, 44 years ago, to save the world, or more correctly, the part of it where I live.
September 30, 2013
| Mizzima
Union Minister Win Tun speaks at a press conference held in the Ingyin Hall of the Ministry of Environmental Reservation and Forestry in Naypyitaw on...