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The pro-government organization – Union Solidarity and Development Association – in Burma's western Chin state on Friday denied rumors that it will be changed into a political party to contest the ensuing 2010 general elections....
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Officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs contacted several political organizations on Thursday inquiring about their status in terms of preparation and organizing for the ensuing 2010 general.......
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(Analysis) The United Nation's special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari will make another visit to Burma at the end of the month on what may be his final effort to broker talks between the military regime and the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi....
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The United Nations special envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari is likely to revisit the Southeast Asian country to foster political reconciliation soon, a spokesperson at the UN office of the Secretary-General said....
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The United Nations special envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari is likely to revisit the Southeast Asian country to foster political reconciliation soon, a spokesperson at the UN office of the Secretary-General said....
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Newcastle disease killed chickens in two poultry farms in Prome early this month, local residents said. Of a total of 60 poultry farms in Prome, Pegu Division,......
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Detained veteran Monk Gambira, who was allegedly staging a hunger strike in Mandalay prison, has been transferred to the remote Hkamti prison, his family members said citing prison officials....
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Detained pregnant woman activist, Kathy Aung, has reportedly suffered a miscarriage in Mandalay's Oh Bo prison, and with negligible care from the prison authorities, she is losing a lot of blood, family members said....
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Nearly three hundred Burmese refugees on Wednesday demonstrated in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Malaysia's capital of Kuala Lumpur,.....
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(Analysis) Thailand's government has promised to investigate claims that the country's military authorities abused hundreds of Rohingya by pushing them back out to sea to die......
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An eight year old Burmese girl in Bokkan village, Tamu Township along the Indo-Burma border lost her right arm in an explosion at her residence on Sunday evening, her mother said. Ms. Mawite, mother of the girl – Lalawmawi - who is admitted to Tamu hosp...
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A member of the National League for Democracy, Burma's main opposition party, was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison on charges of disturbing officials carrying out their duty at the behest of the authorities of the Township Peace and Devel...
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In a freak birth, a Kachin woman in northern Shan State delivered twins, connected to each other at the chest, on Monday. Bawk Mai (20) a villager in Mongpaw village in Muse district of Northern Shan State...
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The general was tired. He walked with a slow, unsteady gait and heaved sighs as he settled into his chair. General Bo Mya had been fighting against Burma's military in all its forms for more than fifty years when we first met in 2000......
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Christians in Rangoon said they are being forced to avoid their churches and conduct services in make-shift places of worship at the homes of their members in rotation after authorities......
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Burmese democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer U Kyi Win is submitting an appeal to the Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein requesting a meeting with his client....
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Family members of Nilar Thein, serving a 65-year prison term, are anxious about her health on hearing that she has peptic ulcer. The famous woman leader belonging to the 88 Generation Students is suffering from peptic ulcer and vomiting almost daily in pr...
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Though it may seem to many, including the international community, that China, Burma's strongest ally, is the only country that can influence the rogue military rulers of Burma,......
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(Commentary) When the American Declaration of Independence was famously penned by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 that, "all men are created equal," the black African slaves were not included.......
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(Commentary) 1. willingness to allow basic political rights to minority groups or groups with unpopular views, their willingness to give up elections in exchange for stability and economic prosperity,......
