News
December 6, 2012
| S.H.A.N
More than a decade after demand on it was eclipsed by the cheaper yaba (methamphetamine), heroin is gradually regaining acceptance among all three...
December 6, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi chaired a coordination meeting for the Monywa Inquiry Commission in Naypyitaw on Tuesday, according to...
December 6, 2012
| Narinjara
An Arakanese man has been seriously wounded after a group of Muslim villagers attacked him with machetes in Minbya in Arakan State.
December 6, 2012
| Mizzima
Drivers competing in the ASEAN-India Car Rally will pass through Burma on their way from Thailand en route to India, the Ministry of Sports announced...
December 5, 2012
| Narinjara
Maungdaw: Twelve Bangladeshi nationals who were arrested in Burma were officially handed over to Bangladesh on Sunday, according to border news...
December 5, 2012
| Mizzima
Rangoon city authorities on Monday banned graffiti on public buildings, roads and bridges, as well as in schools and parks. Authorities said anyone...
December 5, 2012
| Mizzima
Leading American think tank Frost & Sullivan says it is optimistic on the future growth for Burma because the country is an untapped new frontier...
December 4, 2012
| KIC
General Tamla Baw, the Karen National Union’s President resigned on the first day of the KNU’s 15th Congress held at Lay Wah Camp, Hlaing Bwe...
December 4, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Burma Centre for Ethnic Studies (BCES), an independent think tank founded in March this year, launched its first publication in English about the...
December 4, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma’s Presidential Office issued a notification on Monday saying that the number of appointees on the Monywa Copper Mine Inquiry Commission would...
December 4, 2012
| Kaladan
Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) met in Maungdaw to discuss border concerns on Dec.2, according to a local...
December 4, 2012
| IMNA
The “Monograph Reading Ceremony of Pyu Tribe and Pyu Kingdom” that began on November 30 came to a close at the Myanmar Bank Association building in...
December 4, 2012
| Mizzima
Six demonstrators who were arrested after taking part in a peaceful demonstration last Monday, November 26, in Rangoon have been charged under a law...
December 4, 2012
| KIC
An ethnic political party will publish the first nationally distributed Karen magazine since the government launched its media reform agenda.
December 4, 2012
| Kaladan
Business along the Maungdaw-Teknaf border point is finally back to normal after being re-opened on Nov. 24. Two-hundred and sixty-one people have...