Category: Chin News

13 March 2015 — Malaysian authorities carried out a night crackdown on Chin refugees in three areas of Kuala Lumpur today.

11 March 2015 — The 10th regular session of the Chin State parliament has been put off to take place in the end of this month, according to sources from the State government.

09 March 2015 — A group of six youths were beaten up by a gang of Burmese residents in Hakha in front of the Thein Than Min restaurant in the evening last Friday.

03 March 2015 — Prices of consumer goods are going up in Chin State as the government reportedly plans to make a pay rise next month, the end of the financial year.

02 March 2015 — An official ceremony of planting a signboard to confirm plots of land for building two colleges in Hakha today took place on the hill of Artlangzau in the outskirts of the capital.

28 February 2015 — Burma army soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion 289 extorted 180,000 kyats from a group of ten Baptist evangelists in Paletwa township, Chin State last week.

27 February 2015 — The Chin National Front last week paid their respects to soldiers who were shot dead in Laiza, Kachin State last year by Burma army soldiers.

26 February 2015 — Chin refugees stranded in New Delhi celebrated Chin National Day on 20 February in Possangipur, inviting Jasdish Mukhi, former Finance Minister of the government of Delhi as a chief guest of the ceremony.

25 February 2015 — The supply of electricity in Hakha and its surrounding towns of Chin State is not regular even after a recent official inauguration of a new power station.

24 February 2015 — President Thein Sein has allowed construction of two new colleges and one midwife training school in the capital of Chin State.