News
September 1, 2012
| Narinjara
Arakanese State Parliament Lawmaker, U Aung Mra Kyaw, left for Warsaw, the capital of Poland, on Friday to attend training that is sponsored by the...
August 31, 2012
| Mizzima
Thirty Kangyidaung Township authorities will give money and seeds to farmers whose 15,000 acres of spoiled paddy in Irrawaddy Region were flooded in...
August 31, 2012
| Mizzima
Three new deputy ministers have been appointed as part of Burma’s Cabinet reshuffle this week, according to an order from the President's Office.
August 31, 2012
| Mizzima
Htay Myint, the owner of the Yuzana Company, says the company will give back more than 1,000 acres of confiscated land in the Hukaung Valley in...
August 31, 2012
| S.H.A.N
According to the list of de-blacklisted foreigners and exiles that was published yesterday, two prominent Shan exiles Tiger Yawnghwe and his younger...
August 31, 2012
| S.H.A.N
A United Wa State Army (UWSA) officer who shot to prominence during the last two years was suddenly transferred to a lower position earlier this...
August 31, 2012
| Narinjara
Cross-border travel between Burma and Bangladesh has been reopened on 28th of August after it was closed for about three months due to the violent...
August 30, 2012
| KNG
Wednesday, Aug 29 — Fighting between the Burmese government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) broke out between the two mining villages...
August 30, 2012
| KIC
The Karen National Union’s vice chairman, Saw David Tharc Kapaw, acknowledged that Burma’s recent cabinet reshuffle has cast President U Thein Sein...
August 30, 2012
| Mizzima
From January 2011 to date, the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) has documented 20 separate incidents of forced labour, some involving orders to...
August 30, 2012
| Mizzima
Five organizations concerned with the Karen peace process in Burma say they will not attend a meeting organized by Norway’s MPSI because of its “...
August 30, 2012
| Mizzima
The US has waved a visa ban on Burma’s President Thein Sein, who is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly in New York in September, and other...
August 30, 2012
| Mizzima
President Thein Sein wants to make Burma’s Foreign Investment Law more open to investors and his office has been working to convince lawmakers to...
August 30, 2012
| Narinjara
The National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) is to award its 2012 Democracy Award to five leading democratic activists from Burma honoring the...
August 30, 2012
| S.H.A.N
The 8 point guideline set by President Thein Sein’s Union Peacemaking Central Committee (UPCC) in May was spurned by a two-day meeting on the Thai-...