Category: News

17 July 2012: Community leaders from Paletwa in Paletwa Township of Chin State are taking initiative in preparation to demand an increase of electricity supply in three wards of the town.

15 July 2012: A Chin man was found dead inside the office of CYMA (Central Young Mizo Association) in Aizawl, Mizoram State of India.

15 July 2012: Indian police have detained seven teenagers under the age of 16 from Chin State, Burma for breaking into a house in Janakpuri of New Delhi and stealing gold ornaments on Monday.

13 July 2012: Chin State is among three areas of Burma that will receive support from a joint program launched on 5 July by Red Cross of Burma, Denmark and UK for community-based health development.

12 July 2012: The situation of human rights abuses in some ethnic areas of Burma gets worse despite reforms taking place in the country, a report by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.

11 July 2012: A group of seven artists organized an art exhibition in Rangoon last week in an effort to raise fund to help improve education in southern parts of Chin State, Burma.

10 July 2012: Malaysia-based UNHCR said it will stop the name-recording process of Chin refugees staying in Kuala Lumpur following allegations of fraud among some community-based organizations.

10 July 2012: The Zomi National Congress (ZNC), a political party asked in May to change its name by Burma’s Union Election Commission, has been granted permission to register as ‘Zomi Congress for Democracy’.

09 July 2012: A Chin local in charge of a restaurant in Tedim town was strangled and beaten up by Corporal Ko Zin Htwe, of the Military Affairs Security (MAS), in Tedim Township of Chin State, Burma on 29 June 2012.

06 June 2012: Thousands of new trees are being planted along the Hakha-Falam and Hakha-Matupi roads, and around the Zion Green Hill near the Nawi river in Hakha township of Chin State.