Phophtaw News Association
2008-10-06
When I reached the Maha Buddhagayar Pagoda, which is very similar to a Buddhagayar Pagoda of India, located in 'Winnka' (meaning 'Nga Pyaw San Yar')...
2008-09-24
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior staff member Keith Luse along with social worker Fred Gilbert, visited the Fort Wayne Mon Buddhist...
2008-09-20
Security forces, under the direction of the Burmese army's South Eastern Regional Command, beefed up security at last week's “Long Bebin Kaloin”...
2008-09-18
The Royal Thai police raided a garment factory in Sankhalaburi, Thailand and arrested 50 Burmese migrant workers on September 17. Those arrested hold...
2008-09-12
A 14-year old refugee girl was raped by a man in Umpiem Mai refugee camp near the Thai-Burma border town of Mae Sot on September 9. The man was later...
2008-09-01
The Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA) will not severe links with the New Mon State Party (NMSP) if pressured to do so by the Burmese military...
2008-08-18
The plans of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) may force diversity alongside reconciliation with political minorities in Burma, one of...
2008-08-08
Just after a month in operation the junta has closed registration centres recently created to issue licenses to illegal motorcycle owners, despite...
2008-08-06
Sitting together on the boat with some Burmese teenagers crossing illegally into Thailand, I overheard many of them talking quietly about...
2008-08-06
The State Security Forces have increased the number of guards and tightened general security in public places and the main railway lines and highways...
2008-08-05
Sangkhlaburi -- A ban on illegal logging by Naypidaw, Burma's capital on the Three Pagodas Pass border, in a remote region on the Thai Burma border,...
2008-07-15
At the Annual General Meeting hosted by the Mon migrant community in Klang, near Kuala Lumpur, Master of Ceremonies Nai Plu took the opportunity to...
2008-07-03
Burmese military junta authorities have been forcing local monks studying in Rangoon to go back to their home town monasteries before the beginning...
2008-06-27
The amount of money donated as aid to survivors of Cyclone Nargis has been grossly understated in the local media by Burma's military rulers. With...
2008-06-24
Every day the coverage of Burma's Cyclone Nargis diminishes around the world. "After just one month news of Cyclone Nargis dropped on news programmer...