News
February 8, 2012
| Kaladan
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The border trade corridor situated on the banks of the Naf River at Teknaf, which is known as a land port, earned over 85 million...
February 8, 2012
| Mizzima
The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is planning to visit with Burmese leaders sometime later this year, according to a report in The...
February 8, 2012
| Kaladan
Teknaf: Bangladesh: In a recent turn of events, fish from Bangladesh is now being smuggled into Burma. Fish from Burma is usually being smuggled to...
February 7, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Many times, I have been asked by young people what the Panglong Agreement is all about. They’ve heard and sung The Promises of Panglong, a song...
February 7, 2012
| Narinjara
The army, police and forestry department that are based in the Kyauktan Area in Rathedaung Township in Arakan State are collecting illegal toll taxes...
February 7, 2012
| Narinjara
Sittwe University in western Burma’s Arakan State has banned its students and teachers from coloring their hair, demanding they maintain their...
February 7, 2012
| Zaw Shan
The case of a Kachin woman who went missing after her arrest by government troops will be heard by the Burmese Supreme Court on Thursday.
February 7, 2012
| Mizzima
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday signed a partial waiver on restrictions imposed on Burma under the Trafficking Victims Protection...
February 7, 2012
| Mizzima
Phyu Phy Thin, who has worked in an HIV/AIDS shelter programme in Rangoon for 10 years, knows what it’s like to be at the bottom end of Burma’s...
February 7, 2012
| Shwe Thite Taw
The Thai Foreign Minister, Mr Surapong Tovichakchaikul, led a group of visited Burma, border town of Myawaddy to meet with Karen State Chief Minister...
February 7, 2012
| Kaladan
Maungdaw, Arakan State: A fight between members of Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) and village sentries occurred on the night of January 26th...
February 6, 2012
| S.H.A.N
You may call it Shan National Day, as it used to be known, since the first Shan National Day was officially designated in 1930 in Taunggyi and later...
February 6, 2012
| S.H.A.N
The PaO National Liberation Organization (PNLO) delegation that met U Aung Min, the presidential negotiator, yesterday on the border of Chiangmai,...
February 6, 2012
| Mizzima
To mark Burma’s 65th Union Day, Shan members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) will bow to the Panglong Agreement pillar in Panglong in...
February 6, 2012
| Mizzima
A new Burmese press law to cover the print media is unlikely to be submitted to Parliament during the current session.