Category: Chin News

20 September 2013: A Chin Christian college student, 19, lost 16,500 Rupees after being mugged near Vaishali Metro Station in Delhi by a group of five men, believed to be local Indians, last Tuesday.

19 September 2013: Community leaders in Hakha, Chin State wrote a letter to President Thein Sein, asking permission to establish a private university in the Chin capital.

19 September 2013: Building committee of the Khumi cultural museum in Paletwa town of Chin State said works on the construction have neared its completion with about 90 percent finished.

19 September 2013: The World Bank said development projects in Kanpetlet township of Chin State will start in October this year.

18 September 2013: Over 100 bottles of OP (overproof) alcohol, which has been banned by communities, were seized from soldiers from Burma Army based in Hakha, Chin State.

17 September 2013: Residents in Paletwa Township of Chin State said soldiers from the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) forcibly exacted money from the villagers.

17 September 2013: A survey report by four Chin political parties on the Gullu nickel project in Chin State shows that local communities are expressing a new level of distrust of the Chinese companies.

16 September 2013: Rev. Dr. A. Roy Medley, General Secretary of the American Baptist Churches, is set to make his first trip to Chin State in December 2013.

14 September 2013: A Chin refugee girl, aged 2, has suffered from injuries as a result of sexual assault committed by a local Indian boy in New Delhi, according to the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO).

13 September 2013: Headmistress Thim Dik, of Thantlang High School, was flabbergasted when she received a letter of her employment termination without any explanation.