Category: National

14 February 2015 — A four-member delegation of the European Union will be making their fisrt visit to Chin State next week, a source from the Chin Peace and Tranquility Committee said.

11 February 2015 — Thein Sein, president of Burma, is expected to arrive in Hakha, Chin State on 19 February, a source from the State government said.

31 January 2015 — Refugees from Burma stranded in New Delhi took to the street, calling on international leaders to bring justice for two Kachin schoolteachers who were brutally raped and killed by Burma army soldiers.

10 January 2015 – Police forces in Chin State carried out three operations against poppy plantations in the northern township of Tonzang, destroying a total of 566.81 acres.

06 January 2015 – Burma’s President Thein Sein will be invited to attend the celebration of Chin National Day this year, according to the meeting of the Chin State government today.

15 July 2014 – Ms. Yanghee Lee, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on Burma, is to make her first official trip to the country at the invitation of the government this Thursday.

Rangoon, 22 June 2014 – A leading Chin political party has said that Burma’s proposed religious conversion bill, if enacted into law, would violate the 2008 constitution, as well as fundamental human rights guaranteed under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

13 June 2014 – More than 80 civil society organizations from 26 countries around the world have called on the government of Burma to scrap its proposed religious conversion law, published in state-run media last month.

Hakha, 12 June 2014 – The Western Union has started providing its first money transfer services in Hakha, Chin State since late last month.

22 March 2014 – A new education bill submitted to Parliament on 20 March has come under fire by the National Network for Education Reform (NNER), an independent oversight body. The committee says that the bill would effectively bring the entire education sector under strict government control.