News

August 10, 2015
Various organizations and political parties in Mizoram State, India, which borders Chin State, have appealed for aid and prayers for ethnic...
August 10, 2015
The management of Serge Pun & Associates Group, together with First Myanmar Investment and Yoma Strategic Holdings, is reaching out to provide...
August 8, 2015
Forty-eight village voter lists that were checked by the National League for Democracy are no longer there due to flooding and this spells trouble...
August 8, 2015
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is distributing this week seven tons of rice for 10,000 people in Mrauk-U, in Rakhine, a...
Kokang leader Peng Jiasheng with the Burmese strongman Gen Khin Nyunt (Photo: Show Time book)
August 7, 2015
The Transnational Institute (TNI), an Amsterdam-based international research and advocacy institute, last month released a 22 page briefing paper...
August 7, 2015
The proposed visit of United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Myanmar (Burma), Yanghee Lee, to Arakan State on Wednesday was called off due to bad...
The flood victims in Pwint Phyu Township, Magway Region. Photo: Bo Bo/Mizzima
August 7, 2015
The death toll from flooding across the country has reached at least 69, with nearly 270,000 people affected, the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief...
August 7, 2015
The United Nations World Food Program is preparing to bring in much needed aid to the isolated Chin State, yet transportation is making it difficult...
August 7, 2015
Thai people from Thailand’s border province of Tak, have donated aid worth 750 million kyat in relief items through the Mae Sot-Myawaddy border...
August 7, 2015
The Thai-Burma border based Emergency Assistance and Relief Team (EART) has opened a donation center to accept aid for Burma flood victim.
August 7, 2015
The Burma government has confirmed a state of emergency in fours states as heavy rain continues to lash central and western parts of the country.
August 6, 2015
Two monks staged a demonstration in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State to protest against delays in the delivery of aid to flood affected families...