News
October 21, 2010
| Thomas Maung Shwe and Joseph Ball
Despite persistent calls for enhanced press freedom in Burma ahead of November’s general election, a leading media watchdog reports.....
October 21, 2010
Bangladeshi Rifles (BDR) personnel seized a rowboat loaded with sacks of fertilizer near the Burma-Bangladesh border on October 19, said a trader...
October 21, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
Muscle flexing was in evidence when U Thein Sein, Chairman of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) told party members in Shan State...
October 21, 2010
All vehicles marked with anti-drug stickers and posters produced by the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) are being prevented from entering the...
October 21, 2010
| Ko Wild
Human rights abuses were causing a health crisis for women and children in eastern Burma,.....
October 21, 2010
| Nan Htoo San
The entire Burmese government machinery seems to have been mobilized to help the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party.....
October 20, 2010
| Khatter Non
Residents of Tavoy Resettlement Site, as well as members of the camp’s neighboring villages in Tavoy District,Tenasserim Division,....
October 20, 2010
| Myint Maung
At least five political parties in Burma have created Facebook accounts and website to canvass for votes,....
October 20, 2010
Police officers manning under staffed checkpoints on the road network in Shan State South, where both the non-ceasefire Shan State Army (SSA)....
October 20, 2010
For the Burmese military junta, its power, money, guns and laws are simply not enough;....
October 20, 2010
Relations between members and supporters of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the National Democratic Party.....
October 20, 2010
Officials of Burma’s border security force, Nasaka continue to torture and extort money from the Rohingya community,....
October 20, 2010
People showed their rejection of the upcoming junta-run election by pasting up posters today in Myitkyina,....
October 20, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
The Burmese embassy in Tokyo took advanced votes from citizens in Japan for the November 7 general election yesterday, amid street protests urging a...
October 19, 2010
With the elections in Burma knocking on the door, a substantial number of Karenni school teachers in Loikaw,....