News
April 1, 2011
| Narinjara News
Seven Arakanese youth who were sentenced to several years in prison along with five others last year were recently transferred to remote prisons, say...
April 1, 2011
| Ko Wild
The owner of the Zaygabar Company, Khin Shwe, an MP in the Union Solidarity and Development Party, gave a farewell dinner for Parliament MPs on...
April 1, 2011
| Kyaw Kha
On his return trip home after Parliament was dissolved, an Arakanese MP lost consciousness on a bus to Rangoon and he was taken to a hospital,...
April 1, 2011
| Myo Thant
Khun Htun Oo, a Shan leder and a political prisoner who was sentenced to 93 years, has received the first Nationalities Hero prize given by the...
April 1, 2011
| Thomas Maung Shwe
A new report by the human and legal rights group Earth Rights International alleges frequent and severe abuses have been inflicted on civilians...
April 1, 2011
| Mizzima News
The UN Secretary-General has called on Burma’s new government to demonstrate a ‘genuine move away’ from ‘direct military rule’. In a statement issued...
April 1, 2011
| Kyae Goe
The Electricity Township Engineer Office in Moulmein has accused the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the Karen National...
April 1, 2011
| LYI HTAW
Members of the Mon National Education Department (MNED), under the control of the New Mon State Party (NMSP), will hold a meeting in Nyi Sar, near...
March 31, 2011
| KIC
A number of gun battles have recently broken out between the KNU and the combined Burmese Army and Border Guard Force (BGF) in Pai Kyon Township in...
March 31, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
Flushed with victory over the Kokang ceasefire group, led by Peng Jiasheng, after a 3 day fighting 19 months ago, the Burma Army had descended on...
March 31, 2011
| Hseng Khio Fah
Victims of Thursday’s earthquake of 6.8 magnitude in Talerh and Monglane village tracts in Talerh sub-township, Tachilek township, opposite Thaland’s...
March 31, 2011
| Jim Andrews
Thousands of copies of a documentary film recounting the horrors of life in the Burmese army are being downloaded, copied and circulated in Rangoon...
March 31, 2011
| Ko Wild
The 6.9 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Shan State in Burma on March 24 caused an estimated US $3.6 million in damage, according to a quake...
March 31, 2011
| Mizzima News
General Min Aung Hlaing, 54, has served as acting joint chief of staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force since June 2010, when he was promoted from...
March 31, 2011
| Kyaw Kha
A roadside vegetable merchant in Mandalay Chanayethatzan Township was given a 15-day jail sentence early this month for violation of a ban on...