News
July 8, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
General elections in Burma will not take place as expected by some quarters on October 10, informed sources...
July 8, 2010
| Takaloo
Bangladesh announced on Tuesday that it is planning to build a railroad up to the Burma border by 2014, at a cost of 18.52 billion taka, with the aim...
July 8, 2010
Political parties keen on contesting this year’s general elections in Burma are gearing up to be in the poll fray. The Chin Progressive Party (CPP...
July 8, 2010
Although the government announced that they will arrest drivers without legal licenses, and confiscate the vehicles, pro-government ceasefire groups...
July 8, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
Monks last week tried to stop police in a northwestern Burmese town from detaining teen boys caught creeping into their monasteries at night so they...
July 8, 2010
| Salai Tun
Rangoon’s city authority and the Internal Revenue Department has ordered small and medium businesses to pay taxes two years in advance if they want...
July 7, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
Several political parties are jostling for space and crowding the capital of Shan State North, Lashio. They represent different ethnic groups such as...
July 7, 2010
The Government Technical College in Sittwe was closed down by authorities on Tuesday after students demonstrated against an increase in school bus...
July 7, 2010
In what could have unleashed bloodshed and pitted ethnic people against each other, the Burmese military junta’s Prime Minister in a special speech...
July 7, 2010
| Thomas Maung Shwe
Earth Rights International, the NGO most famous for using American courts to sue Unocal (now Chevron) for its complicity in murder, rape, torture,...
July 7, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
Rangoon is set to host the Asian Football Confederation President’s Cup finals in September, according to the nation’s governing football...
July 7, 2010
| Phanida
Burmese publications from next week will not be required to print military junta propaganda, according to editors and the state...
July 7, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
The Karen National Union leadership today responded with scepticism to a recent statement from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army’s 999th Brigade...
July 7, 2010
People in 10 villages want to be included in Tedim township on the other bank of Manipura River in upper Chin state, Falam township western....
July 7, 2010
Contrary to election laws laid out by Burma’s 2010 election commission, the new government backed political party is pressuring village headmen in...