News
August 28, 2014
| Mizzima
Taiwan has honoured tens of thousands of Chinese Nationalist soldiers killed in Myanmar during World War II.
August 27, 2014
| KIC
In a speech delivered at the celebration marking the formation of Border Guard Force, a militia group under the control of the Burma Army, Colonel...
August 27, 2014
| KNG
The British environmental NGO Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has been cooperating with the Burmese subsidiary of China Power Investment (CPI)—...
August 27, 2014
| IMNA
The Ye Social Society (YSS) has organized a movement to collect signatures from individuals opposed to the construction of a coal-fired power plant...
August 27, 2014
| Mizzima
A team of Myanmar divers claims to have discovered a legendary bell in the murky depths of the Yangon River -- with the help of dragon spirits -- in...
August 27, 2014
| Mizzima
Flooding in Yangon cannot be stopped despite the millions of kyat spent on measures to tackle the issue, said U Hla Myint, the mayor of Yangon.
August 27, 2014
| Mizzima
Myanmar needs a moral revolution if it is to achieve real democracy, says National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
August 26, 2014
| IMNA
In a recent meeting with the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society’s Farmers’ Affairs Committee, many farmers from Mon State’s Ye Township expressed...
August 26, 2014
| IMNA
The family of a Burmese migrant worker killed in a boiler explosion at a cloth-dying factory in Samut Prakan, Thailand on August 17th will be...
August 26, 2014
| Kaladan Press
Bangladesh Coast Guard members seized 200,000 yaba tablets worth about 10 million taka from the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong City on August 23rd,...
August 26, 2014
| Narinjara
Arakan State’s government will return over 13 billion kyat (1 USD= 1000 kyat) to Burma’s union government because the state failed to use the money...
August 26, 2014
| Mizzima
The level of beer consumption in Myanmar is twice theamount the country currently legally brews, said U Thein Tun, a partner in the new Carlsberg...
August 26, 2014
| Mizzima
About 100 rickshaw drivers from Hlaingtharyar Township, Yangon gathered at the old Kyaikkasan racecourse on August 24 to protest against what they...
August 26, 2014
| KIC
The Kachin conflict, now in its third year, has left tens-of-thousand of displaced civilians without adequate access to health care. A community-...
August 25, 2014
| IMNA
The Mon State government should provide an official, public explanation for its 1,000 million kyat budget discrepancy during the 2014-2015 fiscal...