06 April 2012: Chin refugee Pu Sang Hre succumbed to his serious injuries at Chowkit Hospital in Malaysia after being violently attacked on Wednesday in Jalan Imbi, a neighborhood populated by many Chin refugees.
06 April 2012: Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD), a party that won a landslide victory in this weekend’s by-elections, has been urged to cooperate with Burma’s ethnic groups to bring peace in the country.
04 April 2012: The new government of Chin State is claimed to celebrate the Burmese New Year Water Festival in Hakha amid acute water shortages facing the local people in the capital of Burma’s northwestern state.
03 April 2012: About 55 Chin refugees including children and women arrested in two different locations after crossing the Thai-Malaysian border are still being held in detention centres in Malaysia.
02 April 2012: Wild fire, believed to have spread from the slash-and-burn fields, destroyed 18,00 tins of rice (1 tin = 10.5 kg) stored in the granaries in Thangping village, Matupi Township in southern parts of Chin State last Friday.
01 April 2012: Chin residents in Kalaymyo of Sagaing Division were ordered to make financial contribution for paving the road with tar under the new government.
31 March 2012: Local leaders in Tedim Township have sent a letter to President Thein Sein, asking for a separate District Administrative status for the northernmost townships, the Zomi Daily reports.
30 March 2012, KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has promised to help Burma to convince developed countries to review the economic sanctions imposed against the former military-ruled country.
30 March 2012, KUALA LUMPUR – Two Burmese women and two Malaysian men were sentenced to death by hanging by a local High Court on Thursday after they were found guilty of drug trafficking three years ago.
29 March 2012, KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia and Burma relationship is bouncing as both agreed to elevate the bilateral trade and investment, a sign that Malaysia is pleased with the reform taking place in the former military-ruled country.
