Category: Recent News

26 November 2010: 12 people are confirmed dead and dozens are still missing in what could be the deadliest ever road accident in Chin State.

24 November 2010: A photography exhibition on the struggle of Burma’s Chin people is currently on display at Chiang Mai University, northern Thailand.

22 November 2010: Malaysian government will decide next month whether to allow over 90,000 refugees to work officially in the country.

21 November 2010: Canada-based Burmese activists are initiating a campaign aimed at getting the Canadian government to invite the recently freed Aung San Suu Kyi to receive her honorary Canadian citizenship.

20 November 2010: A prominent group of scholars and experts held a round table discussion this week in the Indian capital of New Delhi following the November 7 general elections in military-ruled Burma to discuss India’s role in its immediate troubled neighbor to the east.

18 November 2010: Now that the long detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed, the onus is on the ruling regime and  its likely successor Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) to ensure the well-being and safety of the popular Burmese leader, an all-party group of Canadian Parliamentarians said on Tuesday.

15 November 2010: The Chairman of the Chin State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) ex-Gen. Hung Ngai has ordered an investigation into how each member of the civil servants voted during the November 7 elections after the junta-backed Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) lost all contested seats in three Townships of northern Chin State.

14 November 2010: After addressing a jubilant crowd earlier today, Suu Kyi is set to attend a funeral service for the wife of U Lwin, her close colleague and spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party at Yay Way cemetery in the outskirts of Rangoon.

13 November 2010 – KUALA LUMPUR :  The Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) has called on the ten-member regional grouping to support a proposal to establish a commission of inquiry to look into crimes against humanity in military-ruled Burma.

10 November 2010 (Chinland Guardian): Chin human rights and democracy activist, Victor Biak Lian, was yesterday awarded St. Stephen’s Prize 2010 by the Norwegian Mission to the East (NMTE) in recognition of his magnificent contributions to democracy, human rights and national reconciliation in Burma in a ceremony held at the Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo, Norway.