22 April 2010: Ms Cheery Zahau, former Coordinator of WLC (Women’s League of Chinland), has been hailed among the Chin people for her brave work and taking risks in guiding the BBC team into military-isolated Burma’s Chin State.
22 April 2010: Zotung Organisation of America (ZOA) is to organise a series of “Christian Unplugged Shows” in three US States to raise funds for orphans and Lungkhing villagers of Chin State whose houses were early last month burnt down to ashes.
21 April 2010: Benedict Rogers’ book Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant is to be published by Silkworm Books next month, May 2010, with a foreword by Vaclav Havel, former President of Czech Republic.
21 April 2010: Burma’s famous Chin female singer Sung Tin Par and her fiance Sang Za Lian are to walk down the aisle at Sedona Hotel in Rangoon on 5 May, 2010.
18 April 2010: Two churches founded by a Chin pastor in Nargis-hit villages of Labutta Township, Irrawaddy Division have been shut down by SPDC local authorities last week.
18 April 2010: A rising Chin singer who performs as one of the boy band members, contesting in a nationwide TV programme called ‘Norway’s Got Talent’ has been hailed and supported by Chin communities and individuals across the globe.
18 April 2010: A Chin Christian activist yesterday spoke about ongoing repressions and persecutions facing Christians in Burma at Asian Christian Solidarity Conference held in London.
18 April 2010 (Chinland Guardian): The recent bomb explosions in Rangoon left at least 8 people dead on the spot and about 94 seriously injured, sparking speculation over possible connection with the ‘unsmooth’ campaign condition of SPDC’s upcoming general election.
17 April 2010: Burma campaigners are gearing efforts to keep the international spotlight on the military-run state in the run up to the G8 Summit scheduled to be held in late June in Canada.
11 April 2010: Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was suffering from symptoms associated with low blood pressure and was given intravenous drip infusion during a routine medical checkup performed by her personal physician on Wednesday last week.
