29 August 2010: Shing Aung Ling, 24, and Kee Aung Thang, 26, who were arrested on the Thai-Malaysian border and detained at different detention camps, had today a happy reunion with family members, relatives and friends in Malaysia.
28 August 2010: UK-based Karen Community Association is to hold an evening cultural event at the St Ethelberga’s Peace and Reconciliation Centre in central London today.
26 August 2010: About 300 ethnic Mon people yesterday gathered in a village near the Thai-Burma border, marking the 63rd anniversary of Mon Revolution Day.
22 August 2010 – KUALA LUMPUR : Immigration Department of Malaysia is planning a bigger scale of crackdown on illegal immigrants after the Aidilfitri holiday on 10th and 11th of September 2010.
18 August 2010: The election landscape is shaping up in Chin State with some details emerging about party candidacies and their nominees. With the junta having set the much-anticipated election date for November 7, political parties are now scrambling to designate their candidates for the two Houses of National Parliament, as well as, the Chin State Legislature.
18 August 2010: In its recent statement released on 13 August 2010, the Chin National Front (CNF) urged all the Chin institutional bodies to engage and collaborate in whatever way they can as one unifying voice that represents the Chin people as a whole.
18 August 2010: A planned Christian celebration to mark the arrival of American missionary Dr. J. H. Cope and wife Elizabeth to Tedim town of Northern Chin State has been postponed as it coincides with Burma’s upcoming general election, which is to be held on 7 November 2010.
17 August, 2010: A UK-based campaign group launched an international prayer call for Burma in the run-up to the country’s election, which will take place on 7 November 2010.
17 August, 2010: The Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN) and Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) today called for an end to the new railway expansion to Eastern Shan State by Burma’s military regime.
15 August 2010: Postcards and posters of ‘Vote-No’ campaigns have been distributed in public places in Rangoon following the recent ‘unanticipated’ announcement of the 2010 election date by Burma’s military regime.
