Archive Two

February 4, 2013
Government ministers, police officers, the government’s military and representatives of all of the...
February 4, 2013
Sri Lanka’s navy has rescued 138 people from a sinking fishing vessel off the island’s east coast...
February 4, 2013
State authorities have resettled over 130 Buddhists from neighboring Bangladesh to Maungdaw...
February 4, 2013
Yangon: US ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell invited and met on Tuesday some Arakanese leaders in...
February 4, 2013
The Lower House of Parliament’s Judicial Committee Chairman Thura Aung Ko said that his office has...
February 4, 2013
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has reiterated the group's long stated position that...
February 4, 2013
Hundreds of people attended a ceremony to mark the 64th anniversary of the Karen revolution and to...
February 4, 2013
Myanmar’s Ministry of Finance and Revenue announced on January 30 that loans from Japan will be...
February 4, 2013
As from today, Mizzima will refer to the country as “Myanmar” on its English-language website.
February 2, 2013
In its annual state of the world report released last week Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized Daw...
February 2, 2013
The crash-landing of an Air Bagan airplane in Shan State on Christmas Day was due to pilot error,...
February 2, 2013
Real estate agents have said that many areas of Rangoon’s real estate market significantly boomed...
February 2, 2013
The influential Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) demanded for Burma's government to immediately stop...
February 2, 2013
With the seizure of elevations dominating Laiza, the Kachin Independence Organization / Kachin...
February 2, 2013
“Burma’s reforms over the past year are hindered, not helped, by international oversell and hasty...
February 1, 2013
Dozens of leading authors have gathered in Rangoon for The Irrawaddy Literary Festival this weekend.