News
July 2, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
India’s government has donated power transformers to Burma, according to the Indian embassy in Rangoon, to bring electricity to homes in some of the...
July 2, 2010
Chin State Election Commission officials have been imparting training to select people on poll procedures, including guarding polling booths for the...
July 2, 2010
| Akka
The Temporary Passport Office for migrant workers in Kwathaung is moving to Ranoung starting on...
July 2, 2010
Villagers in Maungdaw Township are being forced to pave stones for the Maungdaw-Bawli Bazar road of by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) since...
July 1, 2010
| Myint Maung
A political prisoner and leader of the 2007 generation All Burma Federation of Student Unions, Di Nyein Lin, who is suffering from an eye disorder,...
July 1, 2010
Clearly at an advantage because no rivals have been approved yet by the Union Election Commission, the Burmese junta backed Union Solidarity and...
July 1, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
The Pa-O National Organization (PNO), whose leader Aung Kham Hti, is Co-Chairman of the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Association (...
July 1, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
More than 900 people in Rangoon Division were infected with dengue fever and six died in the first four months of this year, according to state-run...
July 1, 2010
| Kyaw Mya
Activists from the Free Burma Coalition Philippines have called for stronger policies and more concrete action on democratisation in Burma from the...
June 30, 2010
A number of youths were arrested by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) recently on the allegation that they married without permission...
June 30, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
A “People’s Court” in Japan passed its verdict on Monday to put the Burmese military regime on trial at the International Criminal Court for its...
June 30, 2010
| Thomas Maung Shwe
The Canadian Friends of Burma has called on the government of Canada to investigate reports first made by Mizzima that Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines...
June 30, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
Fifteen Burmese migrant workers were detained during Thailand’s recent political unrest, according to the Thai Action Committee for Democracy...
June 30, 2010
| Phanida
Publishers in Burma have expressed concern over the formation of new censorship teams under the junta’s tough media watchdog fearing even further...
June 30, 2010
Though World Cup soccer has been on for two weeks most Chin people are unable to watch the matches regularly because of irregular electricity supply...