21 March 2011 – KUALA LUMPUR: Around 40 Chin refugee families were asked to vacate an ‘abandoned’ building to make way for the development of Kuala Lumpur International Financial District (KLIFD), a key project under the Malaysian Development Plan.
19 March 2011: Some Internet cafes in Burma are said to have stopped using communication via VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls following an order made by the Myanma Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) early this month.
16 March 2011: Yesterday marked the 112th anniversary of the arrival of the first American Baptist missionary couple, Mr and Mrs Carson, to the Chin people in Chin Hills (now officially called Chin State), Burma in 1899.
15 March 2011: Reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situations of Human Rights in Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana said that ethnic Chins from western Burma face denial of the right to learn their own language, as well as the right to freely practice their religion.
14 March 2011: Rising alcohol abuse among Chin students studying at Kalay University has been linked with a growing number of licensed distilleries near the university campus.
13 March 2011: About 200 people came together in a prayer service held for Burma at the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster in London yesterday, calling for an end to the suffering and rights violation in the Southeast Asian country.
12 March 2011: A deadly road accident in northern Chin State yesterday left five dead and 35 others seriously injured. The second fatal road accident this week in the area, the tragedy is the deadliest since the November 2010 vehicle accident which claimed 17 lives.
11 March 2011: Burmese soldiers patrolling southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township are on a rampage of killing domestic animals and forcibly recruiting porters to carry military supplies.
10 March 2011: Two more European countries, Denmark and Latvia, have decided to support an inquiry into human rights violations in Burma, following a series of demonstrations held in front of six European embassies in London today.
10 March 2011: The Karenni Development Research Group (KDRG) has today exposed detailed locations and progress of three dams secretly planned by the military junta in association with China hydropower giant Datang on the Salween River and its tributaries in Karenni State.
