Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) leader Hkun Htun Oo has returned to Kengtung yesterday, following a 3-day visit to Mongla, 80 km away on the Sino-Burmese border, according to sources in Kengtung.
Villagers at a public meeting attended by government ministers, political organisations, community groups and developers called for new impact assessments to be carried out on the Dawei Special Economic Zone.
A twenty-seven point agreement was reached between the Chin National Front (CNF) and the central government during the second phase of union level peace talks. The meeting took place at the Myanmar Peace Center in Rangoon from Dec. 7-9. The CNF signed a cease fire with the Myanmar army last year.
More fighting between the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Burma army in Northern Shan State is expected, according to TNLA spokesperson Major Tar Phonn Kyaw.
The Land Investigation Commission that has been formed by the Union Parliament is now conducting field investigations for the second time for 14 more cases of confiscation of agrarian lands in Arakan State.
All the village administration officers who live under Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) area No.7 in Maungdaw South, in Arakan state, were recently summoned for a meeting with the Nasaka commander.
The United Nation's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos used her recent visit to Burma this week to publicly urge the Burma's government to allow the UN to resume aid shipments to Kachin civilians displaced from the ongoing fighting.
Australian oil and gas giant Woodside announced on Monday, December 10, that its offer to farm-in, or operate, the A-6 Block in Burma’s Rakhine Basin has been accepted.
The Burmese vice president Dr. Sai Mauk Kham along with many foreign diplomats has arrived in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State on Friday and travelled to Maungdaw and Minbya, a troubled towns of Arakan in June and October, from Sittwe.
More than a 1,000 well-wishers turned up at the Child Development Center, a migrant school based in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, to celebrate Dr. Cynthia Maung’s 53rd birthday on the 6th December.
Intel-logoThe world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, California-based Intel, has announced that it will become the first semiconductor manufacturer in Burma with plans to begin providing its technologies via local Ingram Micro distributor KMD next year.
A curfew for Maungdaw township that was supposed to end on Dec.8 is being extended. Authorities say the situation on the ground is still unstable after sectarian violence broke out in June and October.
Activists around the world are being urged to mark International Human Rights Day on Monday by lighting a candle for detained Saffron Revolution leader U Gambira.
Burmese democratic forces have held a demonstration at the Burmese consulate in New York on Saturday decrying the recent violent crackdown on the protestors of the copper mine project at Lat Pan Daung Mountain in Sagaing Division in Burma.
The Burmese government has issued a statement on Friday opposing Al Jazeera’s plan to telecast a documentary that is said to have included allegations of “genocide against the so-called Rohingya” during the violent communal riots that broke out last June and October in Arakan State.
Al Jazeera reacted to a Burmese foreign affairs ministry press release in the New Light of Myanmar that attacked their new documentary, “The Hidden Genocide”, by encouraging the public to see the film for themselves and make up their own minds.
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