11 January 2010: Even as the incumbent legislators are getting busy with their own campaigns for the 2010 elections in the UK, a group of British MPs are trying to ensure that Burma remains high on Britain’s foreign policy agenda come a new Parliament.
9 January 2010: The Burmese Supreme Court may be delivering its decision as early as January 18th on whether to uphold an earlier decision by a lower court to keep Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest or to rule against her extended imprisonment, a Chinland Guardian source has said.
07 January 2010: More than 80 percent of households have already been in debt as they borrow money to buy food, according to a survey conducted in Thantlang and Rezua Townships of Burma’s Chin State in 2009 by CAD (Country Agency for Rural Development).
05 January 2010: The year 2009 proved to be one of the most difficult years for the Chin people in recent memory as they continued to struggle with the impact of cyclical flowering of bamboos and related rat infestation that culminated in the worst food crisis in half a century. But 2009 also carried some of the most memorable events that made great impacts on the lives of the Chin people. Chinland Guardian is pleased to present its list of the 10 top events [in chronological order] of the year 2009 that mattered to the Chin people.
04 January, 2010: A continuing series of Chin Food Aid Concert in USA has been resumed and the first in the new year 2010 was successfully organized in Chapel Hill, North Carolina last Saturday.
4 January 2010: On the occasion marking the 62nd anniversary of Burma’s Independence Day, the National League for Democracy (NLD) has said that national unity cannot be realized without reconciliation in Burma.
2 January 2010: A new salary increase for government employees will take effect on January 31, 2010, the Burmese Treasury Department has confirmed.
30 December, 2009: Three Chin athletes representing Burma won four medals at the 25th SEA Games held in Vientiane, the capital city of Laos in December 2009.
