News
November 5, 2014
| Mizzima
US President Mr Barack Obama will meet Myanmar opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon on 14th November after meeting with President U Thein...
November 5, 2014
| Translated by BNI
At recent national reconciliation talks the government and parliament were well represented but less than half of the ethnic political groups were...
November 5, 2014
| Narinjara
Ten passengers were injured when Toyota Dyna truck, which was being used as a bus, overturned whilst travelling between Thandwe and Taunggoup...
November 5, 2014
| Translated by BNI
Wai Shaw Yin a Southern Wa leader from Mongton Township in Eastern Shan State has had all his business and personal assets frozen after being...
November 4, 2014
| KNG
Lawyer, activists and various civil society groups held a prayer service on Tuesday 4th November in Myitkyina, the Kachin state capital, where they...
November 4, 2014
| KNG
The Karen National Union (KNU), Burma's oldest armed ethnic group, confirmed last week following a meeting of the group's Central Standing Committee...
November 4, 2014
| Translated by BNI
S.H.A.N. has learnt that on 28th October a Tatmadaw (Burmese Army) tactical unit arrested the village headman and another villager of Louk-Loan...
November 4, 2014
| IMNA
Of the 170 criminals on the run from Mon State’s Ye Township police, only five have been arrested, according to a statement by Officer Myint Thaw,...
November 4, 2014
| S.H.A.N
A Tatmadaw company commander has told villagers that his soldiers will shoot anyone they see with a light on after 10pm and that if they do they will...
November 4, 2014
| KIC
Free Burma Rangers (FBR), an organisation delivering humanitarian assistance to conflict affected areas, stated that clashes between the Burma Army...
November 4, 2014
| Mizzima
Burma Campaign UK has called for the immediate and unconditional release of the Bi Mon Te Nay journalists, in a press release dated 30th October.
November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
The United States placed influential Myanmar lawmaker and businessman U Aung Thaung on its sanctions blacklist on 31st October, accusing him of...
November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Migrant worker activist Andy Hall says a key Myanmar witness in a recently-dropped defamation case against him in Thailand has faced threats, despite...
November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
A Myanmar minister has expressed his dissatisfaction with a World Bank report that continues to rank the country as a poor place to do business.
November 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Médecins Sans Frontières is warning of a worldwide drug-resistant tuberculosis crisis that includes serious concerns for Myanmar.