Category: Recent News

21 December 2011: Road accidents across Chin State since Burma’s 2010 elections have claimed more than 40 lives and caused over 120 injuries, according to Chinland Guardian‘s sources.

20 December 2011: A Burmese High School principal, U Aung Min Oo, has been accused of siphoning off money collected from students in a small village near the Indian border in Chin State.

19 December 2011: An emergency conference of the Chin National Front has unanimously endorsed the decision of CNF leadership to meet with the Chin State Government in a move welcomed by the Chin public.

15 December 2011: An apparent accidental fire destroyed the house of the State chief judge on Thursday evening when it was engulfed by a rapid blaze in State’s capital Hakha.

09 December 2011 – KUALA LUMPUR: Two Burmese nationals were found killed in a gruesome manner in different incidents in the state of Penang and Kedah of northern Malaysia.

09 December 2011 – KUALA LUMPUR: Two Burmese nationals were arrested for producing and selling duplicated documents including various countries’ passports, UNHCR cards, visas, driving licenses and working permits in a luxurious condominium in Kuala Lumpur.

29 November 2011: A three-member United Nations Commission of Inquiry (CoI) chaired by a former UN rights investigator for Burma has found Syria guilty of crime against humanity during the Arab nation’s 8-month long crackdown on peaceful protesters.

28 November 2011: Leading members of political, human rights and local NGO groups met in Aizawl, Mizoram State, India last Friday, to discuss and analyse the Indian Look East Policy (LEP).

26 November 2011: Within the 8-month long armed conflict against ethnic groups in Shan and Kachin States, Burma Army soldiers have raped 81 women and girls, of which 36 were killed, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) said.

23 November 2011: Burma’s government has approved of installing new satellite television services via DTH (Direct-to-Home) for home reception in Paletwa Township, Chin State.