Police in Thailand’s southern province of Songkhla on Thursday cracked down on 110 immigrants, all of them are Myanmar nationals, for working illegally in the kingdom.
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Stockholm: Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has long been under house arrest in Myanmar, has been named winner of the Olof Palme Prize, organizers said Monday.
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January 29: Tokyo: North Korea and Myanmar are close to an agreement on normalizing their diplomatic ties, a Japanese newspaper reported Saturday, citing multiple sources.
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Rangoon regional commander Lt-Gen Myint Swe has been replaced by Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win, who was commander of the 11th Light Infantry Division, based in Rangoon.
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A 24-member foreign delegation from Rangoon has been visiting Maungdaw Township, a western border town of Burma, since January 25, according to a NGO worker from Maungdaw.
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A Rohingya villager had to bribe Kyat 300,000 to the Nasaka (Burmese-Border Security Force) of Buthidaung Township, Arakan State, Burma for getting his daughter married without permission, said a relative.
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Health workers from refugee camps and migrant communities on the Thai-Myanmar border will meet with local officials and international donors in Thailand’s northwestern province of Takl on Jan. 27 to review contingency plans to cope with a possible outbreak of bird flu.
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As the crackdown on drug suspects continues, 8 of the anti-drug officials have been promoted, a subject that has become the talk of the town among official circles in Tachilek, opposite Maesai:
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Bangkok: When Chinese contractors stopped illegally logging Burma’s northern forests last year after a damning report was released, environmentalists thought they had won a significant victory.
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Yangon: Myanmar will sponsor a pearl auction in February with an aim boost foreign exchange earning, sources with the state-run Myanmar Pearl Enterprise (MPE) said on Friday.
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The plummeting value of the Burmese currency by the day has forced businessmen to abandon their currency exchange business in Teknaf, a border town of Bangladesh. This has put Burmese traders wanting to exchange money in Teknaf in a spot, said a local trader there.
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“Voices of Mon” the first Mon newspaper to be published in Thailand is ready to be distributed from February.
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A senior Indian official has confirmed the United Kingdom has threatened to stop arms sales to India if the country goes through with the sale of an aircraft to Burma.
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Bangkok: An international media rights group Friday accused Myanmar of imposing severe censorship and demanded it release an imprisoned journalist whose health has worsened due to poor prison conditions.
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The northern English city Sheffield is planning to offer Freedom of the City to detained Burma’s democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Su Kyi.
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Military-ruled Burma is well on the way to becoming a Chinese dependency, according to a Burmese business circle in Rangoon.
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With the Burmese Army continuing to use civilians as military porters for transportation of army rations in northern Arakan, people struggle to survive for they don’t find time for their own work, said a village monk.
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A group of soldiers forced three pickup truck owners to transport them to Three Pagoda Pass township early this week.
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Naw Phaw sat on a mat in her cousin’s apartment, her small, fit body making her look even younger than her 14 years. She had just arrived in Chiang Mai from Burma’s Mon state, hoping to find work.
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Authorities in Thailand have launched a new program to teach 140,000 young Burmese refugees Thai from April.
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