News
May 22, 2012
| KIC
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in Mae Sot told refugees at Umpiem Mai camp their registration depends on permission from...
May 22, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Lt-Gen Yawd Serk and a group of his followers were greeted by the residents of Kengtung and Tachileik on the way returning to Loi Tai Leng, the...
May 22, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Burma government has made a plan to re-open border gate at Mongla, Eastern Shan State at China border with aim of improving the country’s regional...
May 22, 2012
| IMNA
A press release today from the Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG) questions the independence of a third-party impact assessment of the...
May 22, 2012
| Mizzima
A worldwide ad agency, WPP, has become the first western advertising group to invest in Burma since sanctions were eased, in hopes of attracting the...
May 22, 2012
| Mizzima
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton telephoned Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to review developments in Burma and to discuss the recent U.S...
May 21, 2012
| S.H.A.N
From this month on, vehicles from China that come to Muse, a small town in Northern Shan State at China-Burma border have been charged for staying...
May 21, 2012
| Narinjara
Money is being forcibly collected from locals in Kyauk Pru Township, Arakan State, in order to construct schools and clinics donated by the China-...
May 21, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Shan Nationalities League for Democracy leader Khun Tun Oo attended the closing ceremony of Shan Language and Literature summer training on Sunday,...
May 21, 2012
| Mizzima
Health workers carrying out malaria control activities – sometimes covertly – in conflict zones along the Thai-Burma border hope additional donor...
May 21, 2012
| Mizzima
A decrease in electrical power in Rangoon on Saturday was caused by an explosion at four electrical towers on the national power grid. The government...
May 21, 2012
| Kaladan
Chittagong, Bangladesh: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 270,000 Yaba pills and detained four persons, during a joint raid in the early...
May 21, 2012
| Khonumthung
Zomi National Congress’s (ZNC) application registration has been rejected as a legal party by the Union Election Commission (UEC) because the party’s...
May 19, 2012
| KNG
Speaking at a press briefing in New York last Thursday a spokesman for Secretary General Ban Ki Moon declared that the head of the UN calls on all...
May 19, 2012
| Mizzima
– Ikuko Okamoto, Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar: Transformation under Market Liberalization. Singapore: NUS Press, 2008. –Koichi Fujita,...