News
May 15, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Without cooperation from the Burma Army, Naypyitaw’s drug eradication and suppression program will not work, according to Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, leader of...
May 15, 2012
| Narinjara
The National League for Democracy has been opening village-level offices in Arakan State with an aim to educate the ideology of democracy to the...
May 15, 2012
| Narinjara
The number of people leaving their homeland in Arakan is increasing by the day due to the economic crisis and job scarcity in the western Burmese...
May 15, 2012
| Narinjara
A group of shopkeepers from Myoma Market, the largest market in Arakan State’s capital Sittwe, have flocked to the local municipal office to demand a...
May 15, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma will remain a volatile area for business investment if the Obama Administration broadly relaxes U.S. sanctions, according to a dozen investors...
May 15, 2012
| Mizzima
Burmese President Thein Sein said Burma will no longer purchase arms from North Korea and it will honour U.N. weapons sanctions against the rogue...
May 15, 2012
| Mizzima
The Burmese government will end prior censorship of news publications and form a press council to advise on media laws and ethnics, Information...
May 15, 2012
| KIC
This morning the Karen National Union officially opened its third liaison office in Three Pagoda Pass Town, Dooplaya District, Karen State to help...
May 14, 2012
| KIC
The Karen National Union is to open a new liaison branch office at Three Pagoda Pass in Dooplaya district of Karen State on May 15, according to a...
May 14, 2012
| KNG
Two Burma army soldiers were killed and 4 others injured after weekend clashes between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), near...
May 14, 2012
| S.H.A.N
As the two sides: Naypyitaw and Loi Taileng (the main base of the Shan State Army “South”) gear up for further progress in their peace talks, 3 more...
May 14, 2012
| Mizzima
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) says it will review the ethnic cease-fire agreements reached with the Burmese government if the...
May 12, 2012
| IMNA
Mon language study is only permitted in Mon State government schools two days a week, on Saturdays and Sundays, according to a source from Mon...
May 12, 2012
| Mizzima
A colorful Democratic Karen Buddhist Army leader, Major General Na Kham Mwe, who is accused of drug running by Thai authorities, held a press...
May 12, 2012
| Mizzima
Burmese lawmakers, headed by Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann, visited the European parliament on Thursday, the first ever visit by Burmese officials.