New MIT Principal Elected

31 October 2009: A well-known Chin Christian theologian and scholar, Rev. Dr. Samuel Ngun Ling, is to become the new Principal of MIT (Myanmar Institute of Theology) with effect from 2010-2011 academic year.

Locals Trained To Shoot In Chin State

25 October 2009: SPDC local authorities have given shooting training to a batch of people dubbed ‘volunteer firemen’ in preparation for helping monitor the 2010 elections, sources confirmed.

Singers Ready For Chin Food Aid Concerts In US

23 October, 2009: A team of celebrated Chin singers from Burma, India and Switzerland safely arrived in the US yesterday to perform in a series of ‘long-awaited’ concerts organised as part of Global Campaign against Starvation in Chin State to raise awareness and fund for the victims of ongoing bamboo-and-rat-related food crisis in Burma’s Chin State.

EU Envoys Meet with NLD leaders

14 October 2009: In a sign of increasing Western engagement, a team of foreign diplomats from nine European countries today met with leading members of Burma’s National League for Democracy in Rangoon.

Purged Rangoon Police Chief Still at Large

Police11 October 2009: Former Rangoon Divisional Police Chief Col. Win Naing who was sacked last month on corruption charges is still at large and not being detained at Insein Prison as reported by some media, a Chindland Guardian source in Rangoon has disclosed.

Exile Opposition Alliances to Boycott Burma’s 2010 Election

10 October 2009: Five major opposition alliances based in exile have announced in a joint statement today they will boycott Burma’s planned elections.  The announcement followed months of debates and division within the opposition groups on how to respond to the junta’s planned elections set for next year.

Suu Kyi Prepared to Reassess Impacts of Sanctions

9 October 2009: In a rare meeting with Western diplomats today, Burma’s pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi indicated that she was prepared to reassess the impacts of Western sanctions on military-ruled Burma, according to a Chinland Guardian source in Rangoon.