Category: Recent News

11 August 2011: At least 50 houses have been flooded and deserted in villages near Myittha River in Kalaymyo District following a torrential downpour of rains for nearly a week.

10 August 2011: An estimated 31,700 people from nine townships in Shan State are in a dire humanitarian crisis following recent intensified attacks by Burma Army soldiers.

10 August 2011: The Zo Indigenous Forum and the Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO) jointly organised a seminar in Aizawl, Mizoram State of India, commemorating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples yesterday.

09 August 2011: Mai Ngun Tle Mawi, 4, was abducted by a ‘masked’ Indian man while she was sleeping with her parents at their rented apartment in New Delhi, India last Thursday.

09 August 2011: A Chin Christian pastor drew her last breath at a hospital in Thantlang Town today after being hit by a motorcycle around 9am in the morning yesterday.

08 August 2011: People from Burma living in foreign countries today organise a demonstration rally to mark the anniversary of what has been also known as the ‘People Power Uprising’ against the military regime on 8 August 1988.

07 August 2011: Seven locals from Vangva, Satawm and Saek villages in Falam Township were arrested on suspicion of supporting the Chin insurgent group by Burma Army soldiers late last month.

05 August 2011: An explosive device, reportedly used for catching fish, went off near 9-Mile of Kalay Myo in Sagaing Division today, killing a Chin resident identified as Mr. Lian Za Thang.

4 August 2011: The ‘Ethnic Brotherhood Forum’, a five-member ethnic alliance, on Wednesday appealed for the establishment of a “Peace…

28 July 2011: Burmese police has detained a Chin student studying Civil Engineering at the Kalay Technological University in Sagaing Division after he was caught in a raid at a local home that turned up with five grams of herion on Sunday.