Category: Chin News

29 August 2013: Tax-free border markets are to be established in five places of Chin State following an agreement between India and Chin State government.

28 August 2013: Leaders of community, civil society and churches are to empty over 2,000 bottles of overproof alcohol at a public gathering in Hakha, Chin State tomorrow.

28 August 2013: About 100 villagers of Zalai, a hillside village evacuated due to heavy landslides, are now temporarily sheltered in a jungle near their village.

26 August 2013: Over 80 families from a hillside village of Zalai in Falam township, Chin State, have been forced to evacuate their homes due to heavy landslides.

25 August 2013: Representatives of four Chin political parties are early next month to make a trip to sites of Gullu nickel mining project in an effort to assess the current situation.

24 August 2013: Pu Ngun Khar and his wife lost their lives while attempting to rescue a local woman who got stuck in mud caused by landslides in Hakha Township, Chin State.

24 August 2013: The Matupi Township Council of Churches (MTCC) said it has asked permission from the government of Chin State to plant a new Christian cross on the mountain of Cangtak in Matupi township next year.

23 August 2013: Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have destroyed three bridges and one building in Laibung village, Tedim Township of Chin State on 20 August 2013.

22 August 2013: A group of four Chin medical doctors provided free medical check-ups, treatment and medicines to mothers and children in Cawbuk of Hakha township, Chin State.

22 August 2013: The level of poverty in Chin State has alarmed Tomás Ojea Quintana, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Burma who made his first ever trip to one of the most isolated regions in Burma.