News
January 25, 2012
| Kaladan
Maungdaw, Arakan State: An private businessman, who runs a logging company, is collecting money from Rohingya laborers breaking stone into pebbles on...
January 25, 2012
| Kaladan
Buthidaung, Arakan State: One nine-year-old Rohingya student, was killed and another, eight –years-old, was rendered unconscious by a school guard on...
January 25, 2012
| Kaladan
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) extorted Kyat 300,000 from a villager of Maungdaw Township on December 15, for...
January 24, 2012
| Mizzima
Italian-Thai Development Plc. (ITD), the developer of the Dawei deep-sea port project on the southern coast of Burma, needs to secure around US$ 8.5...
January 24, 2012
| Mizzima
The European Union has eliminated some targeted travel sanctions against top-level Burmese leaders in response to the release of hundreds of...
January 24, 2012
| Mizzima
Environmentalists are calling for a full moratorium on all existing and planned coal-fired power plants in Burma, following the announcement early...
January 24, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma, while introducing democratic reforms in 2011, failed to seriously address the “still dire human rights situation in the country,” Human Rights...
January 24, 2012
| KNG
As local residents marked the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year Sunday evening, troops from the Burmese army opened fire on La Ying, a village...
January 24, 2012
| Mizzima
Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin arrived in New Delhi on Sunday to meet his Indian counterpart S. M. Krishna to discuss preparations for the...
January 24, 2012
| Mizzima
The chief political adviser to Burmese President Thein Sein, Ko Ko Hlaing, told ABC Radio Australia on Monday that the government is serious about...
January 20, 2012
| Mizzima
Speaking in Vietnam before he arrives in Burma on Friday evening, U.S. Senator John McCain said with a free and fair April 1 by-election, some U.S...
January 20, 2012
| Mizzima
Burmese President Thein Sein has given his first-ever foreign interview to the The Washington Post , which was published on Friday, January 20...
January 20, 2012
| S.H.A.N
The embattled Kachin Independence Organization/Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA), unlike other armed groups, is placing political negotiations its...
January 19, 2012
| Narinjara
Mrauk U: Local police in Mrauk-U in Arakan State have arrested and charged a young woman from a rural village in the area for dealing an illegal...
January 19, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Hkun Tun Oo, Chairman of the de-registered Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) has been urged to contest the upcoming elections in April...