September 19: A political prisoner was admitted to hospital after being beaten by a youth gang, the “Scorpions,” in Rangoon’s Insein prison, according to the Thailand-based organization Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma).
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Yangon: Myanmar will add nine more TV relay stations next year to enable domestic watchers in the remote areas to get access to the government’s TV programs telecast from Yangon, sources with the state-operated Myanmar Radio and Television Department said Tuesday.
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Guwahati: Fourteen soldiers were killed in an ambush by heavily-armed militants in one of the deadliest attacks in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur in years, officials said Tuesday.
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Karenni refugees from camp (2), Mae Hong Sorn province, northern Thailand, were getting ready to relocate due to overflow of Mae Sariang River, reported Network Media Group on 19 September.
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Burma intends to return three small businesses owned by two government ministries to the private sector, the official Myanma Ahlin Burmese-language newspaper reported Tuesday.
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The value of Burma’s currency, the kyat, continues to fall as rumors persist of a coup against paramount leader Than Shwe, while the price of gold has jumped dramatically.
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Yangon: The teak export of Myanmar increased by 15.2 percent to 303,000 cubic-tons (428,745 cubic- meters) in 2004, according to the latest official statistics.
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Churachandpur, India: After spending almost three millennia in exile, India’s 9,000 Bnei Menashe Jews now believe they are about to return to their long-lost “homeland” of Israel.
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Former Czech president Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for the UN Security Council to take immediate action against Burma in a new legal report released Tuesday.
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Brussels: Nobel peace prize winners Vaclav Havel and Desmond Tutu will unveil a report today asking the United Nations Security Council to debate the future of the military regime in Burma as a threat to regional peace.
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Washington: Ex-Czech President Vaclav Havel and retired South African archbishop Desmond Tutu called Monday for an urgent initiative at the UN Security Council to bring reforms to military-ruled Myanmar.
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US President George W. Bush and Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said they were “concerned” about the political situation in Burma yesterday following their meeting in Washington.
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Pu Vum Son Suantak, the outspoken Chin politician and litterateur died at a Laureal hospital in Maryland, United State yesterday. He was 68.
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Pu Vum Son Suantak, the outspoken Chin politician and litterateur died at a Laureal hospital in Maryland, United State yesterday. He was 68.
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