Category: Interviews

07 January 2013: A new album by a rising Chin singer and songwriter, Milla Dawt Hniang, is out nationwide in the US tomorrow. Produced by TMG record label, the album is a compilation of heartfelt country songs written by the 22-year-old music artist. 

10 October 2012 (Chinland Guardian): The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project, a multi-million dollar joint venture agreed in 2008 between India and Burma, is designed to connect the eastern Indian seaport of Kolkata with Sittwe port of Rakhine State in Burma by sea, and link Sittwe to Mizoram via river and road transport through Chin State.

17 January 2012: Anthony Kap Khan Khual, leader of the youth wing of Zomi National Congress, was released during last week’s presidential pardon after spending four of his eight-year sentence in Pathein Prison. He was charged and convicted under the Electronic Act. He spoke to Chinland Guardian’s Salai Nyein Chan in this exclusive interview.

13 January 2012: Dr. Sui Khar is leader of the Chin National Front’s negotiating team, which recently signed a 9-point ceasefire agreement with the Chin State Government, which effectively ended 23 years of fighting between the Burmese Army and the Chin National Army. In this exclusive interview with Chinland Guardian, Dr. Sui Khar explains about the peace process and details of their recent discussions in Hakha.

12 January 2012 [CG Note: As Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party (NLD) decides to re-enter the Burmese political scene, many of the ethnic parties who have stood by the NLD and joined the boycott of the 2010 elections are now in a dilemma. Chinland Guardian’s Salai Nyein Chan talked to Pu Cin Sian Thang of the Zomi National Congress in this exclusive interview.  A veteran Chin politician and leader of the Zomi National Congress who was elected in the 1990 elections, Pu Cin Sian Thang has spent a lifetime in Burmese politics. A former political prisoner, Pu Cin Sian Thang’s son and nephew are now serving long-term jail sentences on their political roles during the 2007 uprising in Burma.]

22 November 2011 – [CG Note: Dr. Sui Khar is Foreign Affairs Secretary of Chin National Front, and was part of a two-member CNF delegation headed by Chairman Pu Zing Cung during their meeting with Burma’s cabinet minister on November 19. He also currently serves as Secretary-General of the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC), a multi-ethnic alliance based in exile.]

08 November 2011 – [CG Note: The majority of Chin people in Burma still have little access to modern high-tech facilities and radio remains as one of the most important tools for getting access to information. A few online-based radio programmes in Chin dialects have recently been developed by the Chin Diasporas across the globe.