Wednesday, 30 June 2010 17:12 Kyaw Kha
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Fifteen Burmese migrant workers were detained during Thailand’s recent political unrest, according to the Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma, an NGO based in Bangkok.
After the Thai government crackdown against the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (red-shirt) rally that had paralysed central Bangkok, the Thai police department said 13 of the 417 red-shirt detainees were Burmese, but based on the latest information obtained by the NGO, the number held was 15.
Ten...
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Ross Dunkley sentenced to one-month; will not serve time
Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:05 Mizzima News
(Mizzima) – The Australian journalist Ross Dunkley, the former chief executive officer of the Myanmar Consolidated Media Group Ltd, has received a one-month prison sentence, but he will not serve time because he was detained for 44 days in Insein Prison following his arrest.
Dunkley said he would appeal the conviction by the Kamayut Township Court.
Ross...
Gunmen set two buses on fire and take six hostages in Mon State
Thursday, 30 June 2011 11:37 Kun Chan
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – About 20 gunmen set two passenger buses on fire on the Ye-Thanbyuzayat Road in Mon State and took a total of six drivers and conductors hostage at around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, according to witnesses.
The gunmen took the six hostages and set fire to the Yazamin and Shweli Yadanar buses near Thayaaye village, which is located 30 miles north of Ye.
“They stopped about 20 vehicles and then ordered all the passengers to get off the buses. Then they set fire to the buses, but they did nothing...
Members of six Burmese political parties to visit Japan
Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:11 Mizzima News
Rangoon (Mizzima) – Members of six political parties including the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) will leave for a week-long study tour of Japan on July 13, USDP General-Secretary Htay Oo said in a press conference in Rangoon on Wednesday.
Ten members of the USDP; two from the National Democratic Force (NDF) ; two from the Shan Nationalities...
NLD says it’s legal; not opposed to Parliament, government
Thursday, 30 June 2011 12:06 Myo Thant
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Responding to a letter from the Burmese government challenging the legal status of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and its activities, the NLD on Wednesday sent a letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs saying it is a legal political party and it did not oppose the Parliament or the government.
The headquarters of the National...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Put Burmese regime on trial at ICC, People’s Court urges
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 23:46 Salai Han Thar San
New Delhi (Mizzima) – A “People’s Court” in Japan passed its verdict on Monday to put the Burmese military regime on trial at the International Criminal Court for its crimes against women in Burma.
The verdict was reached during a mock trial at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, after a five-member panel of experienced judges heard the testimony of four victims from Burma and arguments from prosecution and defence counsels.
“The judges passed eight verdicts during the court’s session, including their...
Burma’s censorship board bans magazine cover with photo of Suu Kyi
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:44 Tun Tun
New Delhi (Mizzima) – A picture of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the cover of the Rangoon-based Dharma Yeik Buddhist magazine has been banned, according to the editor of the magazine.
The Dharma Yeik Buddhist magazine cover
that was banned by the censorship board.
In the photo, Suu Kyi is shown donating a robe to a young Buddhist novice. It was...
Suu Kyi says NLD ‘stronger now’; discusses suffering and fear
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:16 Mizzima News
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Aung San Suu Kyi envies the people of Tunisia and Egypt their relatively bloodless transition from ‘dictatorship to democracy’ and admits that real democracy for Burma is slow in coming.
Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech. Photo: Mizzima
In an address and response to questions as part of the BBC 2011 Reith Lecture broadcast on Tuesday,...
Bomb explodes in Toungoo; no one injured
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:26 Kyaw Kha
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Township authorities confirmed that a strong bomb exploded on grassland in Taungoo on Wednesday afternoon.
The bomb exploded on the corner of Matetabala Street and Mingyinyo Street in the 20th Quarter in Taungoo in the eastern part of Pegu Region at about 1 p.m. There were no casualties, according to Taungoo Township Police Station No.1.
‘We...
NLD, Suu Kyi receive official letter challenging its legal status and activities
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 15:45 Mizzima News
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burma’s central government has officially informed prominent National League for Democracy (NLD) leaders of their precarious legal status, a little less than a month before the opposition party plans to undertake a national tour of the country.
The NLD party led by Aung San Suu Kyi has been directly
challenged in an official government...
Mon State authorities orders cease-fire group members to handover weapons
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 15:15 Kun Chan
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burmese authorities in some townships in Mon State have ordered members of cease-fire groups to turn in their weapons at nearby police stations.
Troops of the New Mon State Party Photo: Kaowao
Officials in Thanbyuzayat Township announced on Monday via loudspeakers that members of cease-fire groups turn in their weapons to police stations...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Suu Kyi calls for young NLD members to prepare for greater roles
Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:34 Ko Pauk
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Aung San Suu Kyi has told a youth meeting she wants more young members in the National League for Democracy (NLD) party and they should prepare themselves to assume greater responsibilities.
NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a young people's meeting
on Tuesday. Photo: NLD Youth
A meeting of about 80 young members from seven states and...
Tuesday, 28 June 2011 17:58 Jim Andrews
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Post-election coverage of Burma’s political scene by the country’s state-controlled press, TV and radio continues to ignore professional journalistic standards, according to two reports issued by the media monitoring organization MEMO 98.
Ivan godarsky, left, and Zaw Win discuss the MEMO 98 report
on the media in Burma at the Foreign...
Monday, June 27, 2011
Vice President calls for more effort to clean up polluted Inlay Lake
Monday, 27 June 2011 22:01 Tun Tun
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Vice President Sai Mauk Kham urged people not to build more floating cultivated islands in Inlay Lake, which has been polluted with toxins and is facing depleted water levels.
Sai Mauk Kham spoke at an environment meeting at Inlay Lake on Sunday that was attended by ministers from the Forest Ministry, Agriculture and Irrigation Ministry and...
Burmese journals free to publish without prior approval warned by censors
Monday, 27 June 2011 20:52 Phanida
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Burmese censorship board has issued warnings to some newspapers and magazines that are free to publish without prior censorship, according to journalists in Rangoon.
Publications in Burma have been issued warnings by the
censorship board, citing material 'culturally inappropriate'.
Photo: Mizzima
The Press Scrutiny and Registration...
Chinese and Burmese gem traders clash in Mandalay
Monday, 27 June 2011 14:25 Mizzima News
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A fight broke out between ethnic Chinese gem traders and local Burmese gem traders at a gem market in Mahaaungmyay Township in Mandalay on Monday morning. The gem market was closed after the clash.
Police arrested some participants in a clash between
Chinese gem traders and Burmese gem traders at a
gem market in Mahaaungmyay Township...
Chinese arms maker’s copper mine deal raises queries over Canadian stake
Sunday, 27 June 2010 12:34 Thomas Maung Shwe
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – One of China’s biggest arms makers signed a contract with a Burmese junta-controlled entity this month involving “co-operation” in a Monywa copper mine, raising serious questions over the status of Canadian miner Ivanhoe’s holdings in the town northwest of Mandalay and whether Burma sanctions have been violated.
Defence contractor China North Industries Corporation (Norinco), one of the Chinese military’s biggest suppliers, disclosed in a press release that in the first week...
Saturday, June 25, 2011
No big policy shifts from new Australian PM, activists say
Friday, 25 June 2010 18:48 Kyaw Mya
New Delhi (Mizzima) - Burmese activists in Australia are not expecting any big foreign policy shifts on Burma, they said, after Julia Gillard was sworn in as the country’s first woman prime minister, vowing to bring changes to the government on the domestic front.
Labor Party incumbent Kevin Rudd stepped aside for his former deputy Gillard to take power early yesterday in an apparent bid to save face ahead of a party leadership vote he was assured he would lose.
It was a speedy exit for the first Labor prime...
Friday, June 24, 2011
USDP members directly appointed as Burmese village administrators
Friday, 24 June 2011 19:33 Tun Tun
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese township authorities have directly appointed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) members as ward and village administrators, according to political parties that contested in the election.
‘These reports were sent to us from Rangoon and Bago regions and some townships from Magwe Region’, National Unity Party (NUP) spokesman Han Shwe told Mizzima.
He said the 2008 Constitution Chapter 5 Executive Article 289 stipulated, ‘The administration of wards or village-tracts shall...
A second bomb goes off in Mandalay–fourth bomb on Friday
Friday, 24 June 2011 16:44 Mizzima News
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A second bomb exploded in Mandalay on 84th Road between 31st Road and 32nd Road at around 3 p.m. on Friday. There were no injuries.
The bomb exploded near the Sainsabelphoo gold shop and a rubbish pile located near Pariyatti Sasana Association. The location is 800 feet from the site of the first bomb explosion around noon.
Another...
31 Rohingya make day 10 of hunger strike in Australia
Thursday, 24 June 2010 15:15 Thomas Maung Shwe
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Thirty-one Rohingya refugees in a detention centre in Darwin, Australia are entering the 10th day of a hunger strike today in protest at the Australian government’s delay in processing their asylum claims, an average of nine months after their boats’ interception.
The president of the Burmese Rohingya Community in Australia, Kyaw Maung Shamsul Islam told Mizzima in a Burmese-language phone interview conducted late on Wednesday that three of the protesters had been taken...
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