Chinland Guardian

12 July 2012: The situation of human rights abuses in some ethnic areas of Burma gets worse despite reforms taking place in the country, a report by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.

11 July 2012: A group of seven artists organized an art exhibition in Rangoon last week in an effort to raise fund to help improve education in southern parts of Chin State, Burma.

10 July 2012: Malaysia-based UNHCR said it will stop the name-recording process of Chin refugees staying in Kuala Lumpur following allegations of fraud among some community-based organizations.

10 July 2012: The Zomi National Congress (ZNC), a political party asked in May to change its name by Burma’s Union Election Commission, has been granted permission to register as ‘Zomi Congress for Democracy’.

09 July 2012: A Chin local in charge of a restaurant in Tedim town was strangled and beaten up by Corporal Ko Zin Htwe, of the Military Affairs Security (MAS), in Tedim Township of Chin State, Burma on 29 June 2012.

06 June 2012: Thousands of new trees are being planted along the Hakha-Falam and Hakha-Matupi roads, and around the Zion Green Hill near the Nawi river in Hakha township of Chin State.

05 June 2012, Tahan: A body of Chin woman Ms Ting Iang, from Tahan, Kalaymyo, has been found in the jungle of Yimapin near Monywa, Sagaing Division late last month.

05 June 2012: A sharp fall in sales of local products such as turmeric and dried aromatic ginger and an increase in rice prices have drastically affected the livelihoods of the local people in Paletwa Township, Chin State.

01 July 2012: A group of Chin and Mizo doctors and nurses last week offered a free medical checkup for hundreds of patients in Zonuamzaang and Kimlai villages of Tedim Township, Chin State.