News
October 19, 2012
| Mizzima
Efforts of Burma’s government-appointed commission to investigate the recent communal violence in Rakhine State have been blocked by local community...
October 18, 2012
| Khonumthung
Chin state, Burma: The Chin National Front (CNF) has sent a survey team to scout for land to build army camps on new sites for their soldiers and...
October 18, 2012
| Narinjara
Minbya, Arakan state: Minbya residents are continuing to face difficulties from supply shortages and rising costs of electricity. The problem is...
October 17, 2012
| Mizzima
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) has announced a subsidiary has opened a branch office in Burma to work with local carriers to provide ICT...
October 17, 2012
| Phophtaw
Several Kachin refugees were injured after government soldiers shot at them at Pha Ye camp, China.
October 17, 2012
| S.H.A.N
From all over Shan State, reports have begun to arrive that poppy cultivation is back, as early as August in the south and east, but only recently in...
October 17, 2012
| Mizzima
A prestigious peace award has honored Aung San Suu Kyi for her decades-long leadership of Burma’s pro-democracy movement.
October 17, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma’s President Thein Sein was re-elected as chairman of the ruling state party but he named a fellow reformer Shwe Mann, the speaker of the Lower...
October 17, 2012
| Mizzima
The top-level US delegation now in Burma is sending a signal that cooperation between US and Burma’s military can only come if the country makes...
October 16, 2012
| Mizzima
Amid controversy over leadership selection in some local branches of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Burma’s largest opposition party has...
October 16, 2012
| Kaladan
Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) arrested several Rohingyas on charges of participating in violence during sectarian unrest in June, in...
October 16, 2012
| Mizzima
Australian officials said on Monday they would advise Burma on elections and government structures and support its building an effective foreign...
October 16, 2012
| IMNA
In order to merge the All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP) and the Mon Democratic Party (MDP), leaders and negotiators from both signed a four-...
October 16, 2012
| Narinjara
Prominent Myanmese nationals, including politicians, former student leaders and even an ex-prime minister have been threatened with charges and even...
October 16, 2012
| S.H.A.N
The family of Naw Kham, the godfather of the now defunct Mekong protection racket who is awaiting court decision in China’s Yunnan province, has...