News
March 28, 2013
| Mizzima
Following severe violence and intimidation against reporters covering the inter-communal riots that erupted in Central Myanmar on March 20, the...
March 28, 2013
| Mizzima
Anti-Muslim mob violence broke out on Wednesday afternoon in Minhla and Zigon villages in the Bago Region, local residents told Mizzima.
March 28, 2013
| Mizzima
A top executive from one of the estimated 90 companies bidding for two telecoms licenses in Myanmar has called for the government to install the...
March 28, 2013
| Mizzima
The European Burma Network, a collective of advocacy and human rights groups, has released a joint statement urging the European Union to delay...
March 27, 2013
| Mizzima
The Border Consortium (TBC), an umbrella group of NGOs which supplies humanitarian relief to some 140,000 refugees at the Thai-Myanmar border, has...
March 27, 2013
| KNG
Hundreds of Chinese owned trucks laden with timber have crossed from Kachin state into China over the past few weeks. Timber being transported to...
March 27, 2013
| Narinjara
Two Burmese monks were arrested by the Bangladesh border security force, BGB, on Thursday at a border checkpoint located at Teknaf and Cox’sbazar...
March 27, 2013
| Phophtaw
The US Assistant Secretary for Conflict and Stabilization Operations Mr. Fredrick Barton attended a press conference in Loikaw for discussions on...
March 27, 2013
| Khonumthung
Khonumthung News Group will start publishing a monthly print newspaper in Burmese in May. The news group just received the green light from the...
March 27, 2013
| Mizzima
The Ministry of Information announced on March 25 that in a second round of licensing eight more private daily newspapers have been granted...
March 27, 2013
| Mizzima
Punj Lloyd Upstream Ltd, an Indian company which is building an extension of the Myanmar-China natural gas pipeline, has been accused of failing to...
March 27, 2013
| Mizzima
Addressing more than 6,300 soldiers on Wednesday morning, Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing said that the military will continue...
March 26, 2013
| KIC
Farmers in Karen State have been told to apply for land concession of their farmland that were either confiscated or were sold off by officials in...
March 26, 2013
| Kaladan
Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) still haven’t released 3 Bangladeshi policemen and one civilian arrested several weeks ago, according to...
March 26, 2013
| KIC
Following the murderous violence between Buddhist and Muslim communities in Meikhtila Town last week, a prominent Buddhist monk organization has...