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The United Nations World Food Programme has said it is working out details with the government to begin importing food from abroad to supply to cyclone survivors, in Burma's southwest Irrawaddy and Rangoon division.
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An editor from a monthly magazine Cherry' was forced to resign from his work for publishing a poem named 'De Pa Yin Ga', written about the historical 'Depayin' town, in June issue.
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Fresh fire fights between Burma Army troops and Karen forces have begun. A Karen soldier was killed in action this morning in skirmishes in Kawkareik Township.
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Veteran journalist Win Tin in prison for almost 19 years is in immediate need of treatment for asthma. Win Tin, age 79, who will complete 19 years on July 4, is suffering from asthma and his health situation is deteriorating. But he is not being pro...
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Strange as it may seem though many of the survivors of last month's killer Cyclone Nargis are yet to receive relief supplies, there has been no reports of the situation worsening or a major outbreak of diseases, local aid workers said...
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Member of Burmese political opposition Thant Zin Myo, who has been in custody in the notorious Insein prison for over 11 months, has been denied medical treatment despite his deteriorating health, his wife said...
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Two earthquakes near India's eastern archipelago of Andamans and Nicobars were recorded on Friday.
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Two earthquakes near India's eastern archipelago of Andamans and Nicobars were recorded on Friday. Officials at the Indian Tsunami Warning Centre in Hyderabad told Mizzima the two quakes measuring 6.7 and 6.4 on Richter respectively began at about 5:30 p....
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To stop Burmese military rulers from its unabated use of rape as a 'weapon of war' in its campaign against ethnic minorities, there is a lot that the international community and United Nations Security Council needs to do. The appeal comes from an ethnic ...
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A Burmese woman was arrested on Wednesday evening after staging a solo protest at a busy downtown district near the popular Sule Pagoda, in the country's former capital Rangoon.
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Despite the deteriorating health of 88 Generation Student Myo Yan Naung Thein, prison officials of Insein prison have not allowed him proper treatment and produced him before the court on Thursday.
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A French non-governmental organization, Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF), which had rushed to Burma to help in reconstruction in the wake of the killer cyclone, left the country, as the ruling junta restricted its movement outside Rangoon city. The French t...
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The Burmese military junta has claimed that its drug eradication campaign has brought about a drastic decline in opium cultivation in the country. It has decreased from 140,000 hectares to 27,700 hectares within a decade.
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At least four Burmese athletes will be joining the Beijing Summer Olympics. Of a total of six athletes who applied, four have been allowed to join the game to be held in Beijing, China in August. The Sports and Physical Education Department submitte...
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Anti-drug campaign posters were pasted at crowded places in Myitkyina, Kachin State this morning, an opposition Kachin student organization said.
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Access to clean drinking water remains one of the biggest challenges in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, with hundreds of wells contaminated in most townships in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, Paris-based Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
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Urgency for the sake of cyclone affected children and an urgent appeal by the Burmese military junta forced the hand of the 'Save the Children' to route 9,000 plastic sheets through the regime...
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The UN World Food Programme has said airlifting aid supplies to Burma's cyclone victims continues with an aid of USD 3 million given by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) ...
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Famous poet Ko Saw Wai, who had jeered at ageing SPDC Chairman Snr. Gen.Than Shwe calling him 'power crazy' was remanded for the third time by the Bahan Township court yesterday.
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The United Nations today said that more than half the survivors of Cyclone Nargis in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta and Rangoon Division are still starving without any food assistance.
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