by Mungpi Saturday, 29 August 2009 13:48New Delhi (Mizzima) – As many as 30,000 civilians have fled to China in the wake of fighting between government troops and ethnic rebels in Burma’s north-eastern region, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Friday. “Our information is that as many as 30,000 people may have taken shelter in Nansan County since August 8, saying they were fleeing fighting between Myanmar [Burma] government troops and ethnic minority groups,” Andrej Mahecic, UNHCR spokesperson said at the press briefing, on Friday...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thousands flee as Kokang and government troops fight
by Myo Gyi & Mungpi Friday, 28 August 2009 22:48Ruili, New Delhi (Mizzima) - Thousands of refugees on Friday continued fleeing to the Sino-Burma border as clashes between the Burmese Army and Kokang rebels entered the second day.Tension, which had been building up since early August, between the two armies sparked a gun fight on Thursday and on Friday skirmishes continued in various locations near the Sino-Burma border and in the Kokang capital of Lao Kai.“Most refugees are from Lao Kai town. They include various groups of people including...
US set to announce new Burma policy
by Mungpi Friday, 28 August 2009 20:25New Delhi (Mizzima) - United States is set to announce its new policy on Burma as the Obama administration is on the verge of completing its review, visiting Congress staff members on Friday told leaders of Burma’s opposition party – the National League for Democracy.Three staff members of the House Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Congress on Friday told leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party that the new policy review is to be completed and announced soon. “The officials said, however, that...
Monks form secret organizations
by Phanida Friday, 28 August 2009 22:40Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The internet has revealed more and more statements relating to forming of anti-junta secret organizations by monks.The statements issued by the All Burma Students Union said branch organizations under the aegis of the underground All Burma Monks Organization were formed in Pegu, Irrawaddy and Rangoon Division. The information is being disseminated among Burmese internet users. The All Burma Monks Organization Foreign Affairs in-charge Sayadaw U Eithiriya said that these branches were...
Race held demanding Aung San Suu Kyi’s release
by Mizzima News Friday, 28 August 2009 21:01New Delhi (Mizzima) - Hundreds of students of Delhi University’s Lady Shri Ram College for Women on Friday ran a distance of 3. 3 kilometres in a campaign to demand the release of detained former LSR student and Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.The pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, recently sentenced to another 18 months in detention in Burma, is a former student of Lady Shri Ram College for Women in India’s capital, New Delhi.Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath said the race was organized as...
Print media allowed only 15 liquor ads
by May Kyaw Friday, 28 August 2009 19:39Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Before the blanket ban on liquor advertisements come into effect on January 1, 2010, the Burmese Censor Board is allowing ads for only 15 brands of liquor and beverages in the in print media, journal and magazines.Though the ban on liquor advertisements in the print media in Burma starts on January 1, next year, some brands are exempted until that deadline.They are the Grand Royal and Eagle manufactured by IBTC, all beers manufactured by Myanmar Brewery, Myanmar Whisky, May Myo Wine,...
Friday, August 28, 2009
Fighting breaks out between Kokang and government troops
by Mungpi Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:41New Delhi (Mizzima) – The palpable tension between Kokang and Burmese troops, finally sparked a clash on Thursday with at least three separate gun battles taking place along the Sino-Burmese border.The first clash, according to border sources, occurred at about 7 a.m. (local time) near the town of Yan Lone Chai on the Sino-Burmese border. In another incident, the Peng Jiasheng led faction of the Kokang Army ambushed government troops which were trailing them in the jungle. Later in the evening, the two...
US House delegation arrives in Burma
by Mizzima News Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:50Chaing Mai (Mizzima) - A three-member United States delegation arrived in Burma today as part of Washington's ongoing review of its public diplomacy and assistance program, according to diplomatic sources.The delegation of staff members from the House Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to visit Cyclone Nargis-affected areas as well as meet with non-governmental organizations, prior to their departure on Sunday.The US officials, noted one source, have also visited other regional countries during...
Fighting unabated between Kokang and Burmese Army
by Mizzima News Thursday, 27 August 2009 20:24(Time of reporting – 6:45 p.m. Burmese Standard Time)Ruili (Mizzima) - Another clash broke out between the Kokang and Burmese Army near the Sino-Burma border on Thursday evening.The gunfight between the Peng Jiasheng led Kokang group and the Burmese Army, began an hour ago and is continuing till the time of filing this report, near the Chin Shui Haw town on the Sino-Burma border.Earlier in the morning, a clash occurred near Yan Lone Chai town between Peng’s army and the Burmese battalion, which has...
Burma to ban liquor advertisements
by Mizzima News Thursday, 27 August 2009 18:24Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - The Burmese Ministry of Information has announced that it will ban liquor advertisements in magazines and journals from next year.“It is to notify that advertisement of liquors will be banned from January 1, 2010,” said the statement released by the Ministry of Information through the censorship board.The statement, circulated among magazine and journal publishers, said advertising liquors in magazines and journals negatively affects the moral and character and also impacts...
China to promote trade with Thailand and Burma
by Usa Pichai Thursday, 27 August 2009 19:20Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - With China keen on opening one more border trade checkpoint with Burma, a boost in trade is likely by corporates in Northern Thailand and southern China.Thailand’s Department of Exporting Promotion organized an event on Wednesday to promote trading and investing in Xishuangbanna Prefecture in Yunnan Province, southern China close to Shan State in Burma.Apmornphan Nimanan, Chiang Mai province Governor presided over the event and said that Thailand and Xishuangbanna have close cultural...
Indian- Burmese military officials meet
by Salai Pi Pi Thursday, 27 August 2009 16:36New Delhi (Mizzima) – A six-day meeting between Indian and Burmese military officers began on Wednesday in Kalemyo town, Sagaing division in North-western Burma, to discuss issues relating to border management, as part of an ongoing military level cooperation.The bi-annual India-Burma border meeting is the 37th held between military officials of the two countries. A 14-member Indian Army delegation led by Major General S S Pawar, Chief Of Staff of the Assam Rifle’s Headquarter 3 Corps based in Imphal,...
Japanese FM exhorts Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi
by Mungpi Thursday, 27 August 2009 14:36New Delhi (Mizzima) – The Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone reiterated Japan’s expectation from Burma’s ruling junta to release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi expeditiously.Nakasone, during a brief meeting with visiting Burmese Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo, on Tuesday said Tokyo strongly expects that the Burmese regime will swiftly release Aung San Suu Kyi and allow her to participate in the process of democratization in Burma.Nakasone said, for the general...
Opposition activists launch yellow campaign
by Myint Maung Thursday, 27 August 2009 14:06New Delhi (Mizzima) – With the second anniversary of the ‘Saffron Revolution’ round the corner, 10 opposition activists launched a campaign in Rangoon last Tuesday to pay tribute to monks, who took part in chanting Metta sutra two years ago. The activists donned yellow symbols during their weekly so-called 'Tuesday prayer campaign', conducted in Shwedagon pagoda for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi."September is drawing close. So we wore yellow ribbons, yellow hairpins, yellow flowers...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Kokangs victim of junta’s old tactics: observers
by Mungpi Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:28New Delhi (Mizzima) - Burma’s military rulers have yet again resorted to a divide and rule policy to break up the Kokang ceasefire armed group, which refused to toe the junta’s line of transforming its army to a border guard force, observers said.On Wednesday, Peng Jiasheng, the Supreme Commander of the Kokang Army lost his capital Lao Kai and was forced along with his troops out of the town, as his deputy Bai Souqian and other Kokang militias took over the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army...
Three million ecstasy tablets seized near Tachileik
by Pho Zaw Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:43Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – About three million ecstasy tablets and compressed heroin blocks were seized on August 24 near Tachileik in eastern Shan State, Burma, according to a state run newspaper.The newspaper report said the drug enforcement officials from Tachileik found and seized the narcotic drugs from two houses in Wang Li and Wang Lone villages in Hong Leik village tract.Initially, the officials found 964,000 pink coloured stimulant tablets from the first house along with 102 compressed heroin blocks...
Floods from dam near Thai–Burmese border cause concern
by Usa Pichai Wednesday, 26 August 2009 12:53Chiang Mai (Mizzima) –The incident of flash floods near the Thai-Burmese border last week points to the ineffectiveness of the authorities in addition to its blatant blacking out of information, environmentalists have pointed out.Witoon Permpongsacharoen, an environmentalist attached to the ‘Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance’, a Bangkok based organization working closely with environmental issues in the region told Mizzima that the recent flooding from the Srikakarin Dam in the Kanchanaburi...
Tesaro beats Yangon United 2-1
by Pho Zaw Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:04Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Yangon United Football Club played three friendly mini-matches against Thailand’s Tesaro Sasana Club on Tuesday, where the Thai club won on an aggregate of two goals to one.The matches began at 3:30 p.m. (local time) in Bangkok and were played out for 30 minutes each. In the first match the teams drew 0-0 goals. In the second Tesaro won 1-0. The last match ended with 1-1 goals.During its Thailand tour Yangon United played two matches and in both the matches the Burmese club lost....
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Spurt in tension between Burmese Army and Kokang rebels
by Mungpi Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:46New Delhi (Mizzima) - With the arrival of over 60 army trucks carrying Burmese troops, fresh tension has flared up between ethnic Kokang rebel groups and the Burmese Army in northeastern Shan State with the ruling junta issuing an arrest warrant for the Kokang leader Peng Jiasheng, sources said.Aung Kyaw Zaw, a Sino-Burma border based military analyst, said the tension between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) also known as Kokang Army and the Burmese troops had risen to a new level...
MAI to fly to Bodh Gaya
by Mizzima News Tuesday, 25 August 2009 19:07Rangoon (Mizzima) – The ‘Myanmar International Airway’ (MAI) will launch a Rangoon-Bodh Gaya (India) flight from October 25.The ticket reservation centre of the Burmese National Flag carrier said MAI will operate the Rangoon- Bodh Gaya flight twice a week - Wednesdays and Saturdays. The airfare is yet to be fixed.“We are operating this flight as the number of pilgrims is increasing. We will fly two days a week initially and increase the frequency in keeping with the rise in passengers,” Mie Mie, an...
Without constitution amendment elections cannot herald change: NLD
by Mungpi Tuesday, 25 August 2009 18:12New Delhi (Mizzima) - Unless Burma’s military regime releases political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, and amends the 2008 constitution, the 2010 general elections will be meaningless and will not usher in any kind of change, the National League for Democracy has said.The 2010 general election, proposed by the ruling junta, is based on the 2008 constitution, which enshrines the role of the military. It cannot provide an opportunity for change unless the regime considers reviewing the constitution,...
Thai citizenship to grant stateless near Burma border
by Usa Pichai Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:36Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Citizenship will be granted by Thailand to displaced Thai villagers, who were in Burma, during demarcation by the British a hundred years ago.Surapong Kongchantuek of the Committee to amend the Thailand Citizenship Act told Mizzima that “the committee will finalize the law that would grant citizenship to Thai villagers near Thailand and the southern Burma border, who became stateless during demarcation.”The Act formulated would provide an opportunity for the stateless group near...
Fire breaks out at Grand Royal Distillery again
by Kyaw Kha Tuesday, 25 August 2009 13:22Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – For the second time, a fire broke out at about noon on Monday at the famous liquor and wine producers, the Grand Royal Distillery in Hlegu Township of Rangoon Division.This time the fire broke out in the fuel store where paddy husk and corn-cob are kept, local residents said. On Saturday, two liquor distilling containers exploded in the factory precincts.“The fire is still smouldering where the paddy husk and corn-cob is stored. It cannot be extinguished easily as there are stocks...
Burma's fishery export downward trend continue
by Myo Thein Tuesday, 25 August 2009 14:31Rangoon (Mizzima) – (Analysis) Despite Burma’s fishery products being a good revenue earner in the export market, this year also it has taken a beating and failed to achieve the target.The target for fishery product export sector in the 2009-10 fiscal year is USD 700 million. However, the actual export until over two weeks ago after the first quarter has touched just over 21 per cent of the total export target.It is learnt that a total trade value of USD 147.922 million has been exported from 1 April...
Punishment for a dream – the price of Burmese conscience
by Nay Tin Myint Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:52Mizzima News - William Harvard wrote: "The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children." This is the dream that I had for Burma in 1988, and I still have the same dream today. As a university student in 1988, I never imagined that I would spend the next fifteen years of my life in Burma’s notorious prisons for daring to hope for a better future.It all began on a beautiful spring day, March 13, 1988, when I was a 21-year-old Rangoon University Zoology student...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Cementing Japanese-Burmese relationship
by Mungpi Monday, 24 August 2009 22:39New Delhi (Mizzima) – The Burmese Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Maj-Gen Htay Oo’s visit to Japan is yet another sign of the cosy relationship that Japan maintains with Burmese military generals, observers said.Htay Oo, who is also secretary of the pro-junta civilian organization – the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) – is leading a team of delegates to Japan reportedly to explore possible cooperation with Burma on agriculture and irrigation sectors.“But that is just a pretext. It's...
Activists protest Htay Oo's secret visit to Japan
by Phoe Zaw Monday, 24 August 2009 22:33Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burmese activists on Monday held a protest rally against the secret visit to Japan by Htay Oo, Secretary of the pro-junta civilian organization – the Union Solidarity and Development Association - outside the hotel where he is staying.The demonstrators hoisted the flag of the ‘fighting peacock’, a symbol representing the spirit of revolution in front of "The New Otani" hotel in Tokyo, where Htay Oo is putting up.The flag fluttered along with that of China, Japan, Burma and Thai flags...
Army torches over 300 houses of ethnic Shan
by Myo Gyi Monday, 24 August 2009 22:22Ruili (Mizzima) – Over 300 houses were torched last month by local Burmese Army columns from townships in southern Shan State, the armed ethnic Shan group statement said.A statement issued by the 'Restoration Council of Shan State' (RCSS) on August 21 said six Burmese Army battalions set over 300 houses on fire since July 27. RCSS is the political wing of the 'Shan State Army' (South) – SSA-S."We want the international community, especially ASEAN and UN human rights organizations to know about the human...
Dengue kills three, afflicts over 300 in Arakan State
by Mizzima News Monday, 24 August 2009 21:06New Delhi (mizzima) – At least three people have died and 329 people infected with dengue fever this year in Sittwe and Kyaukphyu of Arakan State in western Burma, according to information from the Ministry of Health.According to the ministry of health, two people in Sittwe, capital of Arakan state, have died and another in Kyaukphyu town."Though dengue is not very dangerous yet two people died in our town scaring people. There are many dengue afflicted child patients in hospital but I cannot tell the...
Aung San Suu Kyi worse off this time in detention: lawyer
by Phanida Monday, 24 August 2009 20:28Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Detained Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s situation under house arrest this time around is worse than her earlier term, her lawyer Nyan Win said.The Burmese opposition leader was escorted back to her lakeside house on August 11, after her three-year prison with hard labour was commuted to 18 months.“But since her return, the situation under which she is detained seems to be far more complicated and is worse than her earlier house arrest term,” said Nyan Win, who is also the...
Old currency notes can cause infection: Doctors
by Mizzima News Monday, 24 August 2009 19:53Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Old and worn out currency notes in circulation in Burma can cause serious health hazards through infection, doctors said.The doctors said bacteria, viruses and protozoa besides many kinds of bacteria, which can cause itching, can be found on the torn and worn out currency notes. "Handling torn and old currency notes can lead to respiratory infectious diseases, skin diseases such as ring worms and sweat fungi. So it is dangerous," Dr. Thiha Maung, Director of the 'National Health...
Censorship Board bans Phoenix
by Phanida & Nem Davies Monday, 24 August 2009 16:54Chiang Mai & New Delhi (Mizzima) - Burma’s Censorship Board banned the Rangoon-based Weekly Journal, Phoenix on August 21, citing violation of censorship rules and regulations.The Censorship Board, under the Burmese Ministry of Information, said that the weekly journal, published every Thursday, has been banned as the publication was found to have violated the rules set by the board.“Yes, it has been put up on the notice board that the weekly has been banned from publishing,” said an...
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