News
May 21, 2010
| Myint Maung
Onion farmers are incurring huge losses after an export ban was imposed to cope with supply outstripping domestic demand,....
May 21, 2010
| Jaloon Htaw
Due to both poor rice harvests following the 2009 rainy season, and planting delays caused by this year’s extended dry season and rampant water...
May 21, 2010
| Loa Htaw
Over 30 retired Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA) soldiers have arrived at New Mon State Party (NMSP) headquarter since April 22nd, a NMSP official...
May 21, 2010
Rain came to Arakan State at long last, particularly in the Sittwe area, in the company of Cyclone Laila, but the worst of the storm bypassed Arakan...
May 21, 2010
The letter to Lt-Gen Ye Myint, Naypyitaw’s front man for the Border Guard Force (BGF) programme, on 11 May by the Shan State Army (SSA) North’s Chief...
May 21, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
The newly floated Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) led by Prime Minister Thein Sein is on a recruiting drive in Shan State North and...
May 21, 2010
The All Mon Region Democracy Party is planning to contest in Pago and Taninthayi Divisions, Karen and Mon States,...
May 20, 2010
A fresh batch of over 300 Chinese dam construction workers arrived in Myitkyina capital of Kachin State in northern Burma today, replacing an earlier...
May 20, 2010
| Khai Suu
NLD leader Soe Myint, a veteran freedom fighter, activist, politician and colleague of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, died in his sleep at...
May 20, 2010
| Min Thet
Three people were crushed to death in a freak accident, when logs rolled off a moving truck after its brakes failed on Thursday morning in Dawbon...
May 20, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
The Thai government’s announcement of curfew on Wednesday, following unrest and violence by anti-government protesters has put many migrant labourers...
May 20, 2010
Burmese Army soldiers of the Ngakyin Tauk camp in Buthidaung Township arrested a religious leader on May 14, on the allegation that his son owes...
May 20, 2010
| Phanida
Rights activist Kyaw Soe, who was arrested during the September 2007 “Saffron Revolution”, on Wednesday morning became the 144th political prisoner...
May 20, 2010
The Immigration Department of Burma is undertaking a census as of early May for those who complete 18 years on 18 October 2010 in all townships...
May 20, 2010
The representative of a Chin ethnic party called the Ethnic National Development Party (ENDP) was officially registered on 11 May with the Union...