Category: Chin News

04 October 2013: The Chin National Front (CNF) has started setting up computers for students at high schools as part of its development programme in Chin State.

03 October 2013: Pu Lian Kung, father of Lieutenant Colonel Sang Lian Thang of the Chin National Front (CNF), died of injuries in the Thantlang hospital after being hit by a motorbike last Tuesday.

02 October 2013: A man who stabbed Thang Sian Mang, 20, aka Mang Mang, to death in North Battleford, Canada last Sunday has been arrested by police.

01 October 2013: Salai Bawi Lian Mang, co-founder and Executive Director of the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) has been awarded the NGO Leadership and Excellence Awards at the Second World Marketing Summit in Malaysia.

01 October 2013: Thantlang Township Police Force has filed a lawsuit against U Maung Maung Htun, Assistant Headmaster of Thantlang Na Ta La School, for ‘bootlegging’ alcohol.

30 September 2013: The government of Burma said it provided full assistance for Na Ta La students in Chin State, a Burmese acronym for the Border Areas National Races Youth Development Training Schools.

29 September 2013: Chin State is among seven places in Burma studied for the possibility of constructing wind turbines to generate electricity.

28 September 2013: The Chin Baptist Churches USA (CBCUSA) announces it has sent 33 Christian missionaries to four ‘fields’ in Chin State and other parts of Burma.

28 September 2013: More than 50 Asho Chins attended basic human rights trainings organized by the Asho Development Fund in cooperation with the MustardSeed Myanmar in the former capital of Rangoon on 23-27 September.

27 September 2013: Chin Christian government employees in Hakha say they have been ordered to prepare food to be offered at Buddhist monasteries during the Uposatha day, known in English as the ‘Buddhist Sabbath’.