News
March 22, 2012
| KIC
The Karen National Union leader Padoh Mahn Nyein Maung – who was sentenced to life plus three years on March 13th – is released today.
March 21, 2012
| KNG
Nearly two months after Burmese soldiers are alleged to have crossed into China and killed Lahpai Zau Lawn, an unarmed Chinese citizen of Kachin (...
March 21, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Tourists coming from Thailand will soon be able to travel to Mongla on the Sino-Burmese border through the Maesai-Tachilek checkpoint, according to...
March 21, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma’s National Planning Law has projected a 150 per cent growth target for the communication sector in the 2012-13 fiscal year, which starts on...
March 21, 2012
| Mizzima
The Burmese Supreme Court has delivered a verdict in the unlawful arrest lawsuit involving a Kachin woman – missing now for five months – who was...
March 21, 2012
| Mizzima
With 11 days to go before the Burmese election, the government has agreed to allow 23 Asean representatives to observe the crucial by-election voting...
March 21, 2012
| Kaladan
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: A Burmese national was arrested at the Bangladesh- Burma border by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on March 18, while...
March 21, 2012
| Khonumthung
Health assistance is required for Chin refugees forced to live in the jungle in the Indo-Burma jungle border area after being driven out of their...
March 20, 2012
| KNG
The vast majority of this year's opium crop in Kachin state was grown in territory controlled by the government, according to opium farmers in the...
March 20, 2012
| Narinjara
Rathedaung: 26 farmers from Rathedaung Township in Arakan State have been sued by an army backed businessman for their efforts to retain their own...
March 20, 2012
| S.H.A.N
In order to break the stalemate in the ongoing talks with the Kachin Independence Organization / Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA), the only major...
March 20, 2012
| Mizzima
The amended Foreign Investment Law will no longer require foreigners to establish businesses with Burmese citizens and will grant them a five-year...
March 20, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma Army soldiers disrupted a Christian conference and threatened an MP at gunpoint in western Chin State.
March 20, 2012
| Narinjara
Rambree: The authorities in Rambree in southern Arakan State have threatened to arrest a local land owner for demanding compensation for his farmland...
March 20, 2012
| Narinjara
Ko Soe Than, member of the department of organizing and information for the Arakan Liberation Army, told Narinjara that the clash happened while the...