Bangkok: Twenty-eight fishermen were rescued after a Myanmar frigate fired on two Thai trawlers in the latest clash between the two countries in a long-running battle over fishing rights, a senior Thai naval official said Monday.
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July 18: Bangkok: Thai Police Bureau Sunday issued a stark warning to employers and laborers from Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia that severe penalties were in store for failure to register on the government’s foreign labor scheme by the end of July.
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July 17: The Indian Government has consented to build a seaport in Burma within two years said Mr. Amalok Rathan Kohli, governor of Inida’s Mizoram state which borders Burma.
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July 17: The new organization opens a Burmese Community Office
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July 17: “People were all bloody. We were all broken. I was lucky to have escaped I bumped into their people who were lying in wait for us. They were chasing us like animals. They also beat up people who were on the motorbikes in front…We had to drive our car into the paddy-fields. At about ten, we
heard spurts of gun-shots. We saw burning cars I don’t know who was alive and who was dead. All of them were lying flat on the ground with flowing blood.”1
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July 15: Military Intelligence cracks down on distribution of politically-sensitive songs; band members and concert organisers arrested
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