The Myanmar government has charged four outlawed anti-government associations with committing terrorist acts and disrupting the peace and stability of the country by planting bombs at many locations.
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April 13, Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) chairman Gen Than Shwe, was reported to have arrived at Sittwe (Akyab) in order to pay visit to the nearby ancient Arakan capital Mrauk-U (Myauk-U) in the efforts to ward off evil before the onset of the Burmese new year which falls on the beginning of next week.
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April 12, Students from Pegu College in lower central Burma who had been arrested and detained by authorities for writing and distributing a poem titled Daung Man (the might of the fighting peacock), were released on 10 April.
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April 13, The victims who were left homeless by the recent major fire at Pwintbyu, Magwe Division in central Burma, still have no proper home to take shelter under during the searing Burmese summer, as the township authority chairman hasn’t granted them the permission to build their homes.
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April 12, One of the most powerful armed ethnic national groups which signed ceasefire agreements with Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), urged the junta Wednesday to respond positively to the proposals of the National League for Democracy (NLD) included in its special statement issued on 12 February.
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Five armed men from an unknown armed group surrendered to the military government authorities in Three Pagoda Pass (TPP). They were brought to the Military Southeast Region Commander for a meeting yesterday, a source close to TPP authorities said.
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April 12, Some young children have been dying from cholera at some places in central Burma’s Mandalay where the deadly avian flu H5N1 occurred recently.
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The company joined six others in the S&P 100 that publicly disclose their EEO-1 report, but Wal-Mart still faces shareowner action on union-busting and selling gems mined in Burma.
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April 8, Urged on by Western demand for its products, China feels free to ravage Burmese forests for its own greedy manufacturing industries which manipulate country-of-origin loopholes, writes Vaudine England
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