News
January 18, 2014
| Mizzima
Myanmar’s close relationship with China will be an advantage in helping to find solutions to territorial disputes in the South China Sea, says...
January 18, 2014
A survey by the United Nations World Food Program has found high rates of poverty and malnutrition among families living in Myanmar’s most arid...
January 17, 2014
| Kaladan Press
Earlier this week, Burmese security forces - police, army and Hluntin - continued hunting-down Rohingya villagers at Kila Dong east village in the...
January 17, 2014
| KNG
A firm owned by the sons of Burma's former industry minister and current Member of Parliament, Aung Thaung, signed a deal in 2010 to construct hydro...
January 17, 2014
| KNG
On Wednesday the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Myanmar Red Cross Society distributed relief for the first time in northern...
January 17, 2014
| Narinjara
One Arakanese cultivator was brutally killed by a group of miscreants on January 13, while he was patrolling a mountain farm, said the police and...
January 17, 2014
| Mizzima
Thousands of Buddhist monks at a meeting in Mandalay have vowed to campaign for a law banning interfaith marriage until it is enacted by parliament.
January 17, 2014
| Narinjara
Once again the fire has broken out at a refugee camp in Pauktaw township of Arakan State on the wee hour of Thursday damaging nearly 40 makeshift...
January 16, 2014
| IMNA
The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) issued a call this week for the Burma army to end the use of sexual violence.
January 16, 2014
| Mizzima
The Office of the President has allocated 7 billion kyats to the peace talks between the government and Myanmar’s armed ethnic groups.
January 16, 2014
| S.H.A.N
According to a note jotted down by U Aung Min, President Thein Sein’s “Minister Without Borders”, last month, the widely anticipated Nationwide...
January 16, 2014
| Kaladan Press
A Maungdaw township administration office clerk in Arakan state attacked his manager with screwdriver for not receiving his salary, claimed Maungdaw...
January 15, 2014
| S.H.A.N
A 7 men election commission has been formed by the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA)’s recently concluded annual meeting...
January 15, 2014
| Mizzima
The government plans to reduce military spending to 12.26% of the budget in the financial year beginning April 1, down from 13.66% in the 2013-2014...
January 15, 2014
| Mizzima
The first women officers appointed to join the military bloc in parliament since it convened nearly three years ago after the 2010 elections have...