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At the mercy of Mother Nature and Burma's generals PDF Print E-mail
by Khin Tun   
Friday, 21 November 2008 17:55
(Feature) On the surface, things can seem brighter than usual for villagers from Matupi in Southern Chin state of Western Burma, home to some 500,000 people. Fathers, mothers and children are busy in the paddy fields reaping their new crop of rice, which has just ripened this past month. However taking a closer inspection of the situation, it soon becomes apparent that there is a serious problem, a lack of food security – adding to the woes in a state where, according to the Chin Mobile Backpack Medical Team,
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NLD's discourse on the economy PDF Print E-mail
by Ko Wild   
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:49
Burma's main opposition party – Natioal League for Democracy – on Tuesday held a rare discusssion on 'Economics' to increase awareness in the new generation about the economy in general.
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Cyclone Bijli moving toward Burma PDF Print E-mail
by Mizzima News   
Friday, 17 April 2009 11:13
Cyclone Bijli, having formed earlier in the week in the Bay of Bengal, is now advancing in the direction of the Burma-Bangladesh border region. U.S. Navy weathermen predict that the surface wind speed of the storm may reach up to 75 mph on late Saturday
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Rogue Agent: How India's Military Intelligence Betrayed the Burmese Resistance PDF Print E-mail
by Nandita Haksar   
Monday, 06 April 2009 14:21
(Book Review) Traveling east, crossing the internal border demarcating the Indian states of West Bengal and Sikkim, there is the distinct feel of entering a frontier area outside the unchallenged purview of the central state – special travel documents,
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CDMA phone magic; helping cyclone survivors PDF Print E-mail
by Salai Pi Pi   
Wednesday, 06 May 2009 20:53
If there is anything of value that Cyclone Nargis has left in its wake for the devastated victims, it would be the increasing number of CDMA phones in the Irrawaddy delta of Burma.
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