Category: National

06 October 2015 — Tin Aye, chairman of the Union Election Commission, said in Hakha today that the upcoming November 8 general election would be free and fair.

27 August 2015 — Landslide-affected victims in Chin State were taken by surprise when Wai Lu Kyaw, a Burmese movie star, carried rice on his back for them.

29 July 2015 — More than 800 houses have been inundated in Kalay town, Sagaing Region.

14 July 2015 — Burma’s President Thein Sein will not run as a candidate in this year’s general election, a senior member of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) told reporters in Naypyidaw on Monday.

23 June 2015 — Stones were thrown at a building in which a Chin Christian pastor and his family live in Yesagyo town, Magwe Region.

11 June 2015 — The Union government is planning to conduct a survey on the requirements of a new bridge that will connect Chin and Arakan States.

13 May 2015 — Corruption has been identified as one of the main factors allowing an increase in the poppy opium plantation in Tonzang Township, Chin State, according to the Public Radio International (PRI).

06 May 2015 — The government of Chin State announced its new plan to provide social services that would benefit children and women in Burma’s western state.

01 May 2015 — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the government of Burma to put an end to the culture of impunity for sexual violence crimes.

27 April 2015 — Chin villagers fleeing conflicts between the Burma Army and Arakan Army are still hiding and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.