News
January 9, 2013
| Mizzima
Beginning this month, veterinary experts will routinely inspect cattle at ranches across Burma to ensure their meat is disease-free and meets...
January 8, 2013
| KIC
Villagers in the east of Dawei, Southern Burma are protesting the building of a dam that will destroy their villages and force them to be relocated.
January 8, 2013
| KIC
The 2013 Karen New Year celebrations will be first. It will be the first time, the Karen people and its political organisdation, the Karen National...
January 8, 2013
| KIC
The Ethnic Human Rights Network issued a public statement calling on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her political party, the National Liberation Party, to...
January 8, 2013
| S.H.A.N
The next step on the way to the long-awaited peace conference is to discuss and reach an agreement on its framework and a meeting between the two...
January 8, 2013
| Mizzima
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) currently has more than 30 prisoners of war, or POWs, that it wants to return safely to the Burmese army,...
January 8, 2013
| Narinjara
Sittwe: The regional government in Arakan State has decided to close down the system of auctioning off fishing blocks that are being portioned the...
January 8, 2013
| Kaladan
Nasaka (Burma's border security force) destroyed a mosque in Maungdaw Township, according to a religious leader who spoke on condition of anonymity.
January 8, 2013
| KIC
Villagers in the Thandaung area were frightened by a Burma Army helicopter that repeatedly flew over their homes last week – the area is under the...
January 8, 2013
| Mizzima
Four representatives of the 88 Generation Students group met with Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros on Tuesday morning at the Chatrium Hotel...
January 8, 2013
| Narinjara
An Arakanese fisherman was severely wounded by the gunshots allegedly from an unknown Muslim fishing boat at the sea off the coast of Sittwe, the...
January 8, 2013
| Mizzima
More than 345,000 foreign tourists visited Rangoon’s Shwedagon Pagoda in 2012, according to Burma’s state-run media.
January 7, 2013
| IMNA
An emergency meeting of the New Mon State Party (NMSP) Executive Committee was held on January 4 to discuss the current Burmese military offensive...
January 7, 2013
| IMNA
Min Thu Ta – The General Secretary of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), Nai Hong Sar, said that despite an agreement reached between...
January 7, 2013
| Mizzima
Indian media reported on Friday that officials from the Indian and Burmese governments recently discussed efforts to dismantle insurgent bases in...