News
May 24, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Chittagong, Bangladesh: Bangladesh yesterday approved a plan to allow the U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips to explore for oil and gas in two deep sea...
May 24, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
4 Chinese workers from the Tasang hydropower project disappeared on 17 May probably causing a pain in the backside for President Thein Sein who is...
May 24, 2011
| Narinjara News
Kyauk Taw: Laborers are becoming hard to find for paddy farmers in western Burma's Arakan State, as so many have been leaving their homeland due to...
May 24, 2011
| Mizzima News
(Press Release) – This is the final day of my mission to Thailand which began on 16 May 2011. I visited Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son and Bangkok this...
May 24, 2011
| Kachin News Group
The Chairman of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), Lanyaw Zawng Hra sent an official letter to Hu Jintao, the president of the People’s...
May 24, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Maungdaw, Arakan State: 300 Rohingya prisoners were released from Buthidaung Prison as a result of the Presidential Amnesty on May 19, according to a...
May 24, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Female travelers, particularly Rohingya women, are facing harassment as they attempt to travel to Bangladesh with officially...
May 23, 2011
| Phanida
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Twelve local journalists were allowed to attend Burma’s first ever ‘Forum on Poverty’ which was attended by President Thein...
May 23, 2011
| Myo Thant
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A group of women political prisoners who started a hunger strike last week in Insein Prison in Rangoon were joined by 17 male...
May 23, 2011
| U Myo and Lane Weir
(Commentary) – The Burmese authorities are selling off plots of Burma’s land to the highest bidder.
May 23, 2011
| Jim Andrews
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Burma’s political opposition can expect little support from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and India and...
May 23, 2011
| Hseng Khio Fah
Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, leader of anti-Naypyitaw Shan State Army (SSA)’s political wing, Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), has officially declared...
May 23, 2011
| ANNA ROBERTS
On 19th June 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi will celebrate her 66th birthday. We are asking our supporters to hold a fundraising dinner in her honour. Please...
May 23, 2011
| Narinjara News
Naypyidaw: Trial for nine Arakanese MPs from the Rakhine National Development Party, or RNDP, which won 34 seats in Arakan State in the 2010 election...
May 23, 2011
| Khonumthung News
Patients in Thantlang town of Chin state, Burma are disappointed at the way they are being treated in the local hospital by the health director Dr...