News
March 22, 2011
| Phanida
The United Wa State Party (UWSP) pledged to work harder to develop the Wa Region but warned that if the Burmese junta attacks its territory, it will...
March 22, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Two hundred members of the Arakanese Rohingya community living in Japan are reported to be safe after the recent 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan,...
March 22, 2011
| RAI MARAOH
Rubber plantation owners throughout Mon State have begun to make the decision to hold on to their collected rubber, while rubber prices have begun...
March 22, 2011
| LAWI WENG
The junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the main opposition party in Mon State, All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP) are...
March 19, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
One glaring fact of the ongoing offensive against the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘north’ is that the Burma Army is concentrating most of its available...
March 19, 2011
| Hseng Khio Fah
Hundreds of local residents living in Wanhai of Shan State South’s Kehsi township, where the headquarters of Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’ is based,...
March 19, 2011
| Te Te
A 200 percent price rise has hit the Rangoon salt market as a result of unseasonably heavy rains that have damaged salt producing fields. On Thursday...
March 19, 2011
| Thea Forbes
The president of Mongolia, the first democratic state in Central Asia, has extended his support to Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a...
March 19, 2011
| Thomas Maung Shwe
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is still considering the appointment of a full-time replacement for the UN’s special envoy to Burma, his...
March 19, 2011
| Mizzima News
Water festival goers at this year’s celebrations of the Burmese New Year will have to pass through bomb detection machines, in an effort to avoid a...
March 19, 2011
| KNG
Hundreds of teachers and healthcare staff who are serving under the Border Guard Force (BGF), formerly the New Democratic Army-Kachin (NDA-K), are...
March 19, 2011
| HONG DEIN
Mudon Township residents have reported the destruction of their land due to new construction of the gas pipeline from Kanbauk to Myaingkalay...
March 19, 2011
| LAWI WENG & KYAE GOE
Mon leaders are divided on the issue of sanctions lifting that has been imposed by the west. There are two main Mon political parties in Mon State:...
March 19, 2011
| Saw Khar Sunyar
Although news spread earlier this year that the Burmese Army would likely resume using ‘Four Cuts’ military offensives against many ethnic armed...
March 19, 2011
| Noung Hlaing
Three Karenni women were killed when the military vehicle they were traveling in overturned. The women were on their way to Loikaw from Shardaw...