News
May 31, 2010
| Takaloo
The Burmese military regime’s inability to make available small currency in many parts of the country is creating problems for shopkeepers and common...
May 31, 2010
A refugee was severely tortured by the camp police on May 30, at about 9 am, for cutting down a small tree near his shed in the camp which he grew,...
May 31, 2010
| Phanida
The jail term of a National League for Democracy party youth member serving a sentence for distributing Aung San Suu Kyi’s portrait has been extended...
May 28, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
Eleven Burmese refugees injured in a car accident while they were travelling to a course to prepare for the United States as part of a resettlement...
May 28, 2010
Three refugees registered with the UNHCR were arrested from Link-Road junction, while returning to their camp on May 24, 2010,....
May 28, 2010
| Phanida
Three top leaders of the New Mon State Party, which has rejected the junta’s offer of bringing its troops into a junta-controlled Border Guard Force...
May 28, 2010
| Nava Thakuria
Pro-democracy Burmese in exile staged a demonstration and a symbolic people’s election at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday. India-based Burmese...
May 28, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
Village headmen from a township in Shan State East, complained that they are tired of the junta’s political parties campaigning process because they...
May 28, 2010
One of the topics discussed by the Loi Taileng based Shan State Army (SSA) South from May 22 to 25, was on stories doing the rounds in Thailand....
May 28, 2010
The Htoo Trading Company, owned by Burmese tycoon U Tay Za, has been harvesting teak and other hardwoods from the largest reserve forest in Arakan...
May 28, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
Five ethnic armed groups have agreed to joint military operations in simultaneous counter-attacks should the junta attack one of the groups,...
May 28, 2010
Things at the contentious Irrawaddy Myisone dam project in northern Burma have come to a head with the Burmese military junta forcibly relocating the...
May 28, 2010
Residents of Maungdaw town are having problems consuming electricity due to the high costs, said a local resident....
May 27, 2010
Bangladesh authorities have launched a fresh crackdown on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh since May 24,...
May 27, 2010
| Thomas Maung Shwe
Swiss-American firm Transocean, presently embroiled in the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster, did exploratory drilling last autumn in Burmese waters owned...