Suspension Bridge To Be Built By Local People
Local people in Matupi township have taken the initiative to construct a suspension bridge where no ferry passage is available.
Category: News
Indo-Myanmar Border Trade Frozen
The summoning of Myanmar Military Intelligence (MI) agents in the Indo-Myanmar border areas has reduced the number of border traders.
Military authorities ease off rigorous checking
No more rigorous inspections of local people and businessmen will be conducted by the official Township level immigration office and Police at the checkpoint crossing in Haka Township which is the capital city of Chin State, or at the Thang Tlang Township checkpoint, said a businessman from Thang Tlang who had been in Mizoram on business.
Students distressed by educational officials in Chin state
Officials of the education department from Thang Tlang Town in Chin State, Myanmar have allegedly asked Thang Tlang Township students from Grade-X to nursery school, to buy fixed price stationery goods at school, and forced them to join tuition classes.
UNHCR Registered Burmese Refugees In Malaysia
24 June, 2009: The UNHCR paid a visit to Malaysia’s Belitik camp where more than 40 detained Burmese refugees were interviewed and given UN Registration last week, it emerged.
Chin Refugee Boy Killed By Car In Malaysia
23 June 2009: A ten-year-old Chin refugee boy hit by a car while crossing the road in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia died in hospital on 16 June 2009.
Condolences To Family Of Rev. Dr. Robert G. Johnson, Last American Baptist Missionary To Chin Hills
23 June 2009: The Chin people across the world sent their deepest condolences and sympathies to family of the last American Baptist missionary to the Chin Hills, Rev. Dr. Robert G. Johnson, 94, who died of complications from pneumonia at the Health Centre of Plymouth Village, Redlands, California on 9 June 2009.
FBE Conference Held In London, UK
23 June, 2009: The 13th conference of FBE (Forum of Burmese In Europe) ended successfully last Sunday after a two-day ‘heated’ discussion and debate held at London South Bank University in London on 20-21 June, 2009.
Malaysia among the World’s Worst Places for Refugees
June 18, 2009 – Washington DC: Malaysia along with its neighbor Thailand is among the world’s worst places for refugees, according to the World Refugee Survey 2009 released here Wednesday by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI).
CNF: Work Underway to Rid of Landmine Stockpiles
18 June 2009: Serious work is now underway to destroy the last of anti-personnel landmine stockpiles by the Chin National Front and its armed wing Chin National Army, Dr. Sui Khar, CNF’s Joint General Secretary (I) told a meeting of signatories to the Geneva Call this week in Geneva. Geneva Call is an international humanitarian organization which engages armed non-State actors (NSAs) to respect humanitarian norms and to rid of anti-personnel (AP) mines.