Archive for the ‘Myanmar-Burma News’ Category

Chinland Guardian, 22 Jan 2009 - A Chin refugee, who has been detained at different detention camps in Malaysia since last November, will be transferred today to Machap Umboo Detention Camp where he will await deportation, Chinland Guardian has learned. William Mung, an ethnic Chin from Southern Chin State of Burma, was arrested on 22 November 2008 by the Malaysian law enforcement while waiting for the ... Full story

Van Biak Thang Chinland Guardian 17 January, 2009 Churches and apartment ... Full story

These men are trying to protect their field by beating the rats with sticks. See more photos here (Open at GFA website). Bamboo is normally a steady source of food for people in Southeast Asia. But part of the bamboo plant's natural growing cycle has caused parts of the region to be overrun ... Full story

Khonumthung News, 10 December 2008: Local Burmese military junta authorities destroyed a new Church under construction in Tayawati Town in Kalaymyo Township (TPDC), Sagaing division, Burma on November 27, 2008. Full story

Khonumthung News, 8 December - A section of Chin people are afflicted by gastritis given the irregularity of meals and lack of nutritious food, reports said. As such gastritis patients are increasing by the day and most are under medical treatment in neighbouring Mizoram state in India. Full story

Khonumthung News, September 23 - A Burmese Army officer allegedly attempted to rape two women in Matupi Township in southern Chin state, Burma on August 30. Full story

Khonumthung News, September 1, 2008 - The Country Agency for Rural Development in Myanmar, a NGO based in Rangoon, former capital of Burma has said that the report of the Chin National Council claiming that 44 children died of food shortage in remote areas of Thangtlang Township in Chin state was incorrect. "The information that 44 children died of food crisis in Chin state by the ... Full story

Khonumthung News - August 27, 2008 - Food crisis affected areas in Chin state, western Burma will be receiving help from the World Food Program (WFP) led international and domestic Non Governmental Organizations in Rangoon. Full story

Aizawl, Aug 22: If Mautam (or gregarious bamboo flowering) famine-affected people in Mizoram have been receiving aids from various sources, Chin people in the neighbouring Burma are suffering from the same catastrophe without any help in sight. Full story

Khonumthung News, August 21 - The World Food Program is to organize a follow up meeting on the food crisis in Chin state at the UNDP meeting hall in Rangoon, Burma on August 25. Full story