News
January 17, 2013
| Narinjara
Rathidaung: The Arakan State Parliament has dispatched a team of its representatives to investigate the problems surrounding the election of ward or...
January 17, 2013
| IMNA
The U.S. Ambassador to Burma Derek J. Mitchell met with Mon Buddhist abbots last Sunday at Aukpagu Mon Monastery in Moulmein, the capital of Mon...
January 17, 2013
| Kaladan
A highway in Maungdaw Township is cutting through Rohingya and Rakhine’s farmland, according to a local businessman who didn’t want his name used.
January 17, 2013
| Mizzima
The US ambassador to Burma, Derek Mitchell, says he is “deeply concerned” about the recent civilian deaths that resulted from an artillery attack by...
January 17, 2013
| IMNA
A student at Moulmein University was arrested for possession of 50 methamphetamine pills, sometimes referred to in Southeast Asia as “Ya Ba,” on...
January 17, 2013
| Mizzima
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov called for an end to international sanctions on Burma when he...
January 17, 2013
| Mizzima
The Thai authorities are to allow the UN’s refugee agency access to 843 Rohingya boatpeople who were arrested over the past week in southern Thailand.
January 17, 2013
| Mizzima
Thailand’s national oil and gas developer PTT Exploration & Production Pcl (PTTEP) is planning to raise and spend about US $12 billion abroad...
January 16, 2013
| Mizzima
Two Burmese government military jets attacked Kachin Independence Army (KIA) positions outside Laiza on Tuesday, according to the KIA.
January 16, 2013
| KNG
Three civilians were killed by two government soldiers who opened fire in an attack that eye witnesses have described as unprovoked. One man survived...
January 16, 2013
| KIC
The Minister of Border and Security Affairs, Colonel Zaw Lwin, representing the government, joined with more than 4000 Karen people to celebrate...
January 16, 2013
| Kaladan
Nasaka (Burma border security force) have detained two Rohingyas accused of being involved in human trafficking since Jan.10, according to a local...
January 16, 2013
| Mizzima
The EU High Representative released a statement commenting on the ongoing conflict in Kachin State on Tuesday.
January 16, 2013
| Mizzima
Burma’s Vice-President Sai Mauk Kham received a delegation led by the Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Vijay Nambiar in...
January 16, 2013
| Mizzima
Solar power for off-grid rural populations in Burma is to be set up by SPCG Public Company Ltd., The Bangkok Post reported last week.