News
November 30, 2012
| Mizzima
Some 200 Buddhist monks staged a “sit-down” protest at Eindawyar Pagoda in Mandalay starting at 1:00 pm on Friday, to protest the violent crackdown...
November 30, 2012
| Kaladan
Rohingya affected by the mob violence in June are struggling to survive after the military has locked them in their villages in Rathidaung Township...
November 30, 2012
| Mizzima
Burmese President Thein Sein’s office moved quickly on Thursday to distance itself from a press release posted earlier by the government’s...
November 30, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma’s President Thein Sein hosted his Vietnamese counterpart, Truong Tan Sang, on Thursday afternoon at a meeting which included the signing of...
November 30, 2012
| Mizzima
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said she will ask the authorities why peaceful protesters were driven violently from the Monywa copper...
November 29, 2012
| Mizzima
In the early hours of Thursday morning in Sagaing, riot police violently cracked down on protesters at the main “sit-in” site in front of the offices...
November 29, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Recent survey conducted in 39 townships has called for repeal of 4 of the 8 point peace guideline set by the Thein Sein government, according to a...
November 29, 2012
| Narinjara
The members of the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD) said local authorities have been threatening to eliminate their party accusing them of fraud in...
November 29, 2012
| KNG
Several Burma army personnel died following a munitions accident at a military base in Kachin State's jade rich Hpakant district.
November 29, 2012
| IMNA
Parliamentary Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann said the “Monograph Reading Ceremony of Pyu Tribe and Pyu Kingdom” scheduled for November 30 would be...
November 29, 2012
| Khonumthung
A storm that hit Chin State has stunted rice productions prompting a food shortage that is affecting many villages in Matupi and Thantlang townships.
November 29, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Young Shan monks who have studied abroad, and many more who are studying outside the country, say they are ready for the changes introduced by the...
November 29, 2012
| Mizzima
Organizers at the Shan Conference in Rangoon announced on Wednesday that the ongoing peace process will bring an end to the conflict that has plagued...
November 29, 2012
| S.H.A.N
U Aung Min, President’s Office Minister for ethnic and NGO affairs, is due to visit Panghsang, the capital of Wa on the Sino-Burmese border, in...
November 29, 2012
| Mizzima
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) says that while Burma has a “wealth of possibilities for power generation,” it lacks the capital to develop them.