News

July 8, 2015
As fighting continues between the Burma Army and the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), the government has come under fire from a senior Karen...
Hsenwi
July 8, 2015
A 70-year-old woman died while collecting firewood near a Burma Army compound in Northern Shan State. A 70-year-old woman died after stepping on a...
July 8, 2015
A special court in Buthidaung, Arakan State released 62 Rohingyas, who were arrested by the army during violence in 2012, from Buthidaung Jail on 1...
Sai Maung
July 7, 2015
Witnesses report that two local farmers were shot from behind while returning home from work. Soldiers from the Burma Army Battalion 77 shot two...
July 7, 2015
Fighting between the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and the Burma Army is continuing along the newly opened Asia Highway 1.
July 6, 2015
Heavy monsoon rains in the Teknaf region of Bangladesh have caused widespread destruction and misery for thousands of Rohingyas in Leda and...
July 3, 2015
Government troops and soldiers from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) clashed on the new Myawaddy – Kawkareik Asia Highway on the morning...
July 1, 2015
The Burma Army informed the Thai Army yesterday (30 June) at their monthly meeting in Tachilek that there has been no fighting along the areas close...
Ethnic Mon MPs and Representatives at the Meeting (Photo: Guiding Star)
July 1, 2015
Ethnic Mon MPs and Mons who won seats in the 1990 election had a meeting to discuss how their parties can work together to better represent Mon...
June 30, 2015
Anndin Village Tract locals went to Ye Town Police Station in large numbers to show solidarity with 26 locals who were arrested and taken in for...
June 29, 2015
Human rights watchdog, Freedom House issued a statement condemning the contempt of court charges filed against 17 journalists in Burma saying that...
June 29, 2015
Abducted Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) officer Abdul Razzak was handed over by the Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) to a BGB team on 25 June, at about...