News
January 14, 2013
| Mizzima
Peter Chou, the Burma-born CEO of Taiwanese phone company HTC Corp., has announced the launch of the world’s first mobile devices designed to be used...
January 14, 2013
| Mizzima
Several Singaporean companies have indicated an interest in investing in the high-end construction business and other industries in Burma, a notable...
January 12, 2013
| KIC
Ashin Pinnya Thami, the head monk from Taunggalay, sent a special Karen New Year blessing to all Karen people. In his public statement Ashin Pinnya...
January 12, 2013
| Khonumthung
A precious orchid being harvested from southern Chin state, Burma, is believed to hold medicinal qualities that can prevent and even cure cancer. The...
January 12, 2013
| Mizzima
More than 1,200 Kachin people living in Yunnan Province marched to the Sino-Burmese border on Thursday in an act of solidarity with their ethnic...
January 12, 2013
| S.H.A.N
Winding up the 4-day United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) meeting yesterday, General Secretary of the 11 member organization alliance Nai...
January 12, 2013
| Mizzima
China has reportedly sent soldiers to its border with Burma amid concern that escalating violence between Burmese government forces and the Kachin...
January 12, 2013
| Mizzima
Burma’s first “sex education” magazine has proven a bit too steamy for Burma’s notoriously draconian censors who have banned its publication after...
January 12, 2013
| Mizzima
Burma’s President’s Office has announced that two committees have been formed to promote the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with...
January 12, 2013
| Mizzima
In a presidential address to Parliament on Thursday, Thein Sein hinted that he would approve increasing the salaries of civil servants in the coming...
January 10, 2013
| S.H.A.N
The Burma Army’s ongoing campaign apparently to capture the Kachin rebels’ capital Laiza could well be “the most expensive campaign in history,”...
January 10, 2013
| Mizzima
An alliance of 23 exiled Kachin organizations on Thursday sent an open letter to Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi criticizing her...
January 10, 2013
| Mizzima
A Hong Kong firm could build an industrial park in Burma as a new hub for foreign investments, says a Chinese-Hong Kong academic.
January 10, 2013
| KIC
The Karen Women Action Group, a community-based women’s group working out of Rangoon gave its approval for the issues the Karen National Union raised...
January 10, 2013
| IMNA
Mon State Government officials surprised ethnic Mon leaders by expressing interest in organizing the 66th anniversary of Mon National Day planned for...