Directorate of Revenue to move to Naypyitaw

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 18:18 Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The office of the Directorate of Revenue will be finally shifted to Burma’s new jungle capital Naypyitaw, from its present location in the…
Mizzima News

Junta Announces Selection of Proxy Candidates

The Burmese government has selected more than 300 proxy candidates to run in the general election in 2010. Three hundred candidates were selected from military personnel who are now attending the Nati…
The Irrawaddy

Food Shortages Reported in Laogai

Htoo Company Plans Tea Plantation near Mount Popa

The Htoo Trading Company, owned by Tay Za, one of the junta’s favorite businessmen, is clearing timber in the reserve forest of Mount Popa, reportedly for a tea plantation, which has raised concer…
The Irrawaddy

Myanmar denies Suu Kyi appeal court access

YANGON: Myanmar authorities have refused Aung San Suu Kyi permission to attend court this week when it hears final arguments in the opposition leader’s appeal against her house arrest, her party said …
Times of Oman

ASEAN can take a leaf out of African Union

As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations prepares to appoint its first set of human rights commissioners to the new ASEAN Human Rights Body at the 15th ASEAN Summit this October, the commission i…
Mizzima News

Myanmar artists to compete in int’l postage stamp design contest

YANGON, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) — Myanmar artists will compete in postage stamp design contest, organized by the South Korean government agency of Korea Post under two categories of youth and general, the …
SINA

Burma to provide 150,000 CDMA phones

New Delhi – To meet mounting telecommunication needs, Burmese authorities have decided to provide 150,000 CDMA telephones to residents of Mandalay and Rangoon, the two largest cities in the coun…
BurmaNet

Youth Forcibly Conscripted in Arakan

Sittwe – The Burmese army stationed in Arakan State has been forcibly recruiting youth from villages to serve in the army, said a retired teacher. “The system for forced recruitment of so…
BurmaNet

Monks under the Eye of the Junta – Wai Moe

On the two-year anniversary of the monk-led September mass demonstrations, the military junta keeps a close eye on the estimated 400,000 Buddhist monks in Burma with continued surveillance and propaga…
BurmaNet

Burmese civilians in Mongla flee to China in apprehension

Even before hostilities break out thousands of civilians in Mongla in eastern Shan State of Burma are fleeing to neighbouring China for two reasons, following the Burmese junta breaking a ceasefire pa…
BurmaNet

Ceasefire groups ponder whose side Beijing is on

“We used to think whatever happened, China’s our friend,” said a middle-aged officer from one of the ceasefire groups located on the Sino-Burma frontier. “After Kokang, I’m not sure.”
BurmaNet

Literacy has no nationality – Purich Trivitayakhun

The education of stateless children along the Thai-Burmese border remains a problem in search of a solution Tak – There are 580km of border between Thailand and Burma in Tak, a province in nort…
BurmaNet