News
August 20, 2012
| Narinjara
Yangon: Over 100 Arakanese have held a demonstration protesting against the UN and INGOs on Sunday marching along the street in Rangoon holding...
August 20, 2012
| Mizzima
Visa has started training Burmese local bank employers to use electronic payment systems to help modernize the economy, but it says the full...
August 20, 2012
| Mizzima
The National League of Democracy (NLD) opened an office in Naypyitaw, Burma’s capital, on Wednesday, marking the rise of the once suppressed...
August 20, 2012
| Mizzima
The Burmese government has formed a 27-member commission including political party leaders, former political prisoners, opposition leaders, Muslim...
August 20, 2012
| Mizzima
The Burmese government lifted censorship for all print publications on Monday, according to an announcement on the government’s Press Scrutiny and...
August 18, 2012
| KIC
A Kachin relief group reports that Chinese doctors and a team of medics are battling to contain an outbreak of measles among children in a Kachin...
August 18, 2012
| Narinjara
18 Hindu families, comprising 98 people, were moved to a Hindu temple in Sittwe from a refugee camp on Wednesday in arrangement with the government.
August 18, 2012
| Narinjara
Maungdaw: Some of the schools in Maungdaw in Arakan State reopened from the 13th of August after being closed for over two months due to the violent...
August 17, 2012
| KNG
In an interview with the Kachin News Group (KNG) earlier this week, Dwe Bu (also spelled Doi Bu), an ethnic Kachin lawmaker from Burma’s Lower House...
August 17, 2012
| KIC
The Karen National Union will open a fourth liaison office on the 18th of August in the Burma border town of Myawaddy in Karen State to help with the...
August 17, 2012
| KIC
The Karen National Union (KNU) is on schedule to open its fourth liaison office in the Burma’s border town Myawaddy on August 18.
August 17, 2012
| S.H.A.N
The ceremony for the 41st anniversary of the founding of Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) was held and more than 400 party members and people...
August 17, 2012
| Mizzima
The latest UN situation report for Rakhine State says that of the over 100,000 people affected at the beginning of the crisis in June, many have...
August 17, 2012
| Mizzima
The World Bank has posted a summary of an “Interim Strategy Note for Burma (ISN) ” on its website, which is an outline of the bank’s plans and...
August 17, 2012
| Mizzima
Five detained local NGO staff members of an international aid organization were freed on Thursday in Rakhine State in Burma, while others still...