Khonumthung News - Internet users in Matupi town, Chin state, Burma have been warned not to send anti-government e mails by Burma’s ruling military junta. A new cyber café has been set up in Matupi.
Khonumthung News - The Burmese police rounded up around 70 Chins from the Five Star sea port in Taketa Township in Yangon on July 17. They were waiting to board a ship leaving Kawt Taung town, Taninsary division, the southern Burma’s border with Thailand.
Khonumthung News , July 30 - Chin state employees of the Myanmar government are being forced to replant over 7,000 acres with Jatropha trees destroyed in a forest fire in 2005. The order to involve government employees from various departments has come from the Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) authorities.
Khonumthung News: Restriction on the sale of alcohol in Chin State, Myanmar has pushed up prices by almost four times. The restriction has been imposed by local medical officers and the Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC)
Khonumthung News, July 20 - The Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin), a health group, has begun volunteer medical operations to battle Malaria on a war footing in Chin state, Myanmar staring this month.
Khonumthung News, July 17 - A new album “Thinglung Thawnthu” (Diary of Heart) will be released soon by T. Melody established by Chin singers who have toured different places in Mizoram, on the Indo-Myanmar border.
Nava Thakuria, a freelance journalist based in Guwahati, Assam India reported on the plight of Chin refugees in India, based on the story of one girl.
Khonumthung News :July 13- An immigration officer in Chin state of Myanmar has issued orders whereby people have to pay a much higher registration fee for national identity cards.
Kalay, Myanmar (Khonumthung) July 6: The Myanmarese Army never suffers from a dearth of ideas to make money on the side. At a time when people in the country are pummeled by sky rocketing prices of essential commodities, soldiers are hawking posters from door to door in Kalay town, Sagaing Division and forcing residents to [...]
Khonumthung News, July 7 - Villagers in Zokhuamawi village, near Tio River on the Indo-Myanmar border have been ordered to provide sandstones for the construction of a three kilometer long asphalt road link between Zokhuamawi village and Rih sub-town in Chin state. The directive comes from the Myanmar military authorities.
