News

March 29, 2011
Burmese authorities will raise the passenger tax at Rangoon International Airport starting April 1 for Burmese citizens going abroad...
March 29, 2011
Two young men of Sin Oo wa village were detained by the Sinletwa based military camp in-charge Aung Win Khai and his troops to replace two soldiers,...
March 29, 2011
Three officers of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) have been arrested in two different places in Burma’s northern Kachin State by the...
March 29, 2011
The New Mon State Party (NMSP), the armed ethnic group in the southern part of Burma, will hold their six months annual central committee members...
March 29, 2011
A member of the Karen Peace Force (KPF) in Three Pagodas Pass (TPP), at the Thai-Burmese border, committed suicide after shooting a female civilian...
March 29, 2011
As debate begins on a potential softening of European Union (EU) sanctions against Burma, the Austrian Embassy in Bangkok has declined to deny...
March 29, 2011
A flag meeting was held between the Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) and Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) on March 24 at the zero line of the...
March 29, 2011
A refugee boy drowned today at about 8 a.m. in a local fishing dam outside of Kutupalong Official Camp. The dam was made by local villagers who went...
March 28, 2011
Rohingya refugees at Leda Camp have been facing problems from unhygienic conditions for more than two weeks since local villagers in the area blocked...
March 28, 2011
Hundred s of victims affected by Thursday’s ( 24 March) earthquake of magnitude-6.8 in Talerh (Talay) and Mong Lane (Monglin) village tracts of Shan...
March 28, 2011
Local fishermen are facing a crisis with their livelihoods as Chinese trawlers have been dominating their fishing waters off the coast in Thandwe in...
March 28, 2011
As the review of the Burma sanctions by the European Union nears, the voices of the outspoken critics of the sanctions grow louder. The critics...
March 28, 2011
The Burmese Parliament this week will discuss economic sanctions imposed on Burma by the European Union and Western countries...
March 28, 2011
Ninety-six Shan young men with freshly shaved heads and bright, pastel costumes took part in a three-day novice ordination ceremony at Wat Ku Tao in...
March 28, 2011
Retiring Burmese junta leader Senior General Than Shwe has advised outgoing and newly elected cabinet ministers in Naypyidaw to tackle corruption,...

Pages