News
November 23, 2012
| Kaladan
One villager was killed and three were injured by soldiers from Buthidaung Township in Arakan State.
November 23, 2012
| Mizzima
The 200 protesters who continue to “sit-in” at Ledi camp on Latpadaung Mountain in Sagaing Division are suffering from a lack of food, water and...
November 23, 2012
| KIC
Karen villagers working in their rice fields and plantations were terrified when jet fighters starting dropping bombs and machine-gunning the area...
November 23, 2012
| KIC
Burmese migrant workers say delays of up to six months in processing their temporary passports so they can get a legal work permit to allow them to...
November 22, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma’s President Thein Sein told reporters on Wednesday that the government will pursue a four-point plan aimed at resolving the bitter divisions...
November 22, 2012
| KIC
The Karen National Union in Southern Burma says a coal extraction operation near Karen villages in eastern Tavoy is not welcome. Villagers are...
November 22, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Sao Ood Kehsi, 65, who had been ex-Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo’s classmate in Taunggyi, passed away last night in Taunggyi at 21:30, according...
November 22, 2012
| Kaladan
Over 28 Rohingya have been arrested for illegally crossing the Bangladesh border at Gumdum, Taungbro and Balukhali on Nov. 20. They were deported...
November 22, 2012
| Mizzima
The owner of a fish farm in the Irrawaddy delta has filed charges against two reporters and a representative of the International Labour Organization...
November 22, 2012
| Mizzima
A community-based organization (CBO) in Tavoy [Dawei] says that claims made by the Italian-Thai Development Company (ITD) that it has relocated the...
November 21, 2012
| Narinjara
Burglars are taken advantage of strict curfews imposed in Arakan State to rob shops in Kyauktaw. Several were robbed near the Shwe Pyi Thit bus...
November 21, 2012
| Mizzima
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has appointed Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi as a “Global Advocate for Zero Discrimination.”
November 21, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Some 150 Shan representatives from all over the country are expected to participate in the 3 day conference in Rangoon next week, according to...
November 21, 2012
| Kaladan
Rohingya leaders are condemning recent comments by opposition leader Daw Aung Suu Kyi during her trip to India.
November 21, 2012
| KIC
The Karen National Union claim move by the Burma Army to force Karen villagers to attend militia training will damage trust between the two sides...