(1) Three Arakan aid workers handed jail terms : Source : DVB
27-Aug-12
Three
aid workers – accused of inciting violence in the recent sectarian clashes in
Arakan state – have been sentenced to jail by a local Burmese court, a UN
spokesperson confirmed today.
Read More---
(2) Gov’t postpones peace talks with Karen group : Source : DVB
27-Aug-12
The
third round of talks between Karen National Union officials and a union peace
delegation has been tentatively cancelled by the government.
Read More---
(3) DVB journalist questioned after being sued by civil servant : Source : DVB
27-Aug-12
Magway-based
DVB reporter Zaw Pe was interrogated by the police this weekend after he was
reportedly sued by a divisional education officer.
Read More---
(4) Thein Sein accuses politicians, monks of inciting ethnic hatred : Source : DVB
27-Aug-12
Buddhist
monks, politicians and other ethnic Arakanese figures are kindling hatred
towards Muslim Rohingya in an area plagued by sectarian violence, Burma’s
president has warned in a report seen by AFP Friday.
Read More---
(5) Cabinet Shake-Up in Burma : Source : RFA
2012-08-27
The move is seen as a bid to lift reforms.Burma's
President Thein Sein has made his biggest cabinet reshuffle since taking power
in March last year, including dropping his hardline Information Minister, in a
move that analysts say will strengthen the government's reform agenda.
Read More---
(6) More Kachin Refugees Return Amid Clashes : Source : Irrawaddy
27-Aug-12
Around
500 more Kachin war refugees have been forced home from southeastern China
after the local authorities in Yunnan Province tore down their temporary
shelters.
Read More---
(7) Million Tons Rice Export Target Despite Floods : Source : Irrawaddy
27-Aug-12
The
Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) has officially recommitted to its target of
exporting one million metric tons of rice during the current 2012-2013 fiscal
year despite serious flooding in the Irrawaddy Delta which has damaged nearly
80 percent of the region’s paddy fields.
Read More---
(8) Two UN Staff Jailed for Role in Arakan Strife : Source : Irrawaddy
27-Aug-12
RANGOON—A
court in Burma has sentenced two United Nations staff members to prison terms
for their alleged involvement in a spate of bloody communal violence in the
west of the country in June, the world body said Monday.
Read More---
(9)
Burmese flooding affects 85,000 people : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 27 August 2012 13:47 Mizzima
News
The Burmese government has said that
85,000 people have been driven from their homes by heavy flooding.
The Irrawaddy Delta - where 130,000 people died in a
cyclone in 2008 - has been the hardest-hit area.
Read More---
(10) Thai Army Destroys Shan Rebel Houses : Source : Irrawaddy
27-Aug-12
The
Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) finally allowed the Thai Army to destroy 17
houses at the rebel’s headquarters in Loi Tai Laeng, eastern Shan State, on
Thursday after a dispute regarding border encroachment, according to Shan
sources.
Read More---
(11)
Chartered Rangoon-to-Naypyitaw flights to begin : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 27 August 2012 14:14 Mizzima
News
A Burmese chartered flight service
will start three flights per day between Rangoon and Naypyitaw in September,
local media reported on Friday.
Read More---
(12) Khmer Rouge Mass Grave Raises Past Ghosts : Source : Irrawaddy
27-Aug-12
DO
DONTREI, Cambodia—It was four grey skulls resting on a bed of jumbled bones
that again triggered Chea Nouen’s memories: breast-feeding her baby with her
hands and feet shackled; her husband thrown into a pit to be turned into human
fertilizer, her own marches to the killing fields—where she was saved three
times by an executioner.
Read More---
(13)
Burma to enhance communication technology links : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 27 August 2012 15:00 Mizzima
News
Burma will ask information and
communication technology (ICT) experts to provide plans for upgrading its
international technology communications structure.
Read More---
(14)
Save Thailand: Tell no ‘white lies’ : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 27 August 2012 15:20 Kavi
Chongkittavorn
(Commentary) - Kudos must go to Deputy Prime
Minister and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na Ranong for being the first minister
to admit to the Thai people that he told "white lies" to boost the
country's confidence about economic growth.
Read More---
(15)
Vietnam working to increase business ties to Burma : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 27 August 2012 15:49 Mizzima
News
Vietnam continues to build on
business contacts in Burma, this time through a “business matching” meeting in
Rangoon on Tuesday.
Read More---
(16) United Wa State Army (UWSA) payroll still going Communist way : Source : Panglong
Monday, 27
August 2012 15:08 NMHO
United
Wa State Army which is currently the strongest in terms of finance, equipment,
weapons and manpower among all the ethnic armed groups is said to be practicing
its salary system as during the days under the Communist Party of Burma (CPB),
according to former CPB members.
Read More---
(17) Gold Mining expands in Burma's
Hugawng “Tiger Reserve” : Source : Kachin
27-Aug-12
Kachin
environmentalists charge that the Yuzana Company has drastically stepped up its
ecologically destructive practices in Kachin state's Hugawng (also Hukaung)
Valley by expanding large scale gold mining in the environmentally sensitive
area, officially known as the world's largest “Tiger Reserve”.
Read More---
(18) Thousands of Lashio locals confronting flood crisis : Source : Panglong
Monday, 27
August 2012 14:43 NMHO
The
severest flood crisis in Lashio is placing over 2,000 people from 6 wards in
difficulties and the Buddhist monasteries have to offer food and necessities to
the victims, reported young locals from Lashio.
Read More---
(19) ceremony inaugurating Shan Culture Association in Thailand : Source : Panglong
Monday, 27
August 2012 14:41 NMHO
Four
months after the Thai government granted official recognition for the Taiyai
Education and Culture Association (TECA) in Thailand, the association opened
its office with ceremony in Wat Kutao monastery, Chiangmai, Northern Thailand,
on 19 August.
Read More---
(20) Woman caught selling forged banknotes : Source : Panglong
Monday, 27
August 2012 12:35 S.H.A.N.
A
woman with 2 IDs, one Thai and the other Burmese, was caught while she was
offering to sell 5,000 kyat notes at a rate ludicrously lower than the market
rate in Homong, opposite Mae Hong Son, according to sources from the border.
No comments:
Post a Comment