Category: National

KUALA LUMPUR, 15 January 2016 — A fight in the outskirts of Malaysia’s capital left two Burmese nationals, including a two-year-old baby, injured and one Malaysian dead.

15 October 2015 — Speaking at the opening ceremony for today’s ceasefire signing, Burma’s President Thein Sein said, “The NCA [national ceasefire agreement] is a historic gift from us to the generations of the future.

13 October 2015 — At the eleventh hour, leading Burmese political figures Aung San Suu Kyi, Naw Zipporah Sein and Min Ko Naing have pulled out of the signing ceremony for a historic ceasefire agreement.

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).