| News - Environment Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 10 June 2010 23:43 | | Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – National League for Democracy party young members have started planting more than 20,000 saplings today in states and divisions in honour of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday on June 19. |
| News - World Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Following last week’s abrupt cancellation of his Burma trip, Senator Jim Webb has written an open letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking her to examine allegations by the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs that Burma had violated UN Resolution 1874, which bans North Korean overseas military shipments. |
| News - Regional Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | New Delhi (Mizzima) – More than 50 Arakanese held a protest outside the UN refugee organisation’s office in the Malaysian capital on Monday, alleging its discrimination against the Burmese ethnic group. |
| News - World Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | (Mizzima) – The formation of a United Nations commission of inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity committed in Burma during the course of the country’s decades long civil war and political standoff has gained a further advocate. |
| News - Regional Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Migrant workers and labour activists have welcomed the Thai governments’ decision to set up a nationality verification centre for Burmese workers in Ranong in southwestern Thailand but warned it could not solve the real problem. |
| News - Election Watch Written by DVB Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | US senator Jim Webb has said he expects elections in Burma this year to be held on 10 October and said that people should vote in order to “build the future a step at a time”. |
| News - Election Watch Written by DVB Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | The party headed by Burma’s current prime minister, Thein Sein, has appointed a Chinese businessman with close ties to the ruling junta as an election candidate in the country’s northern Kachin state. |
| News - Regional Written by The Irrawaddy Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | A US assistant secretary of state will visit the Thai-Burmese border town of Mae Sot on Saturday to study the latest situation of Burmese refugees living there. |
| News - Regional Written by The Irrawaddy Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | Commodity prices have risen sharply in northern India after Naga protesters blocked two vital highways connecting Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Mizoram for two months, say border sources. |
| News - World Written by The Irrawaddy Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | WASHINGTON The Obama administration on Wednesday said that it will appoint a special envoy for Burma, but has not yet selected a candidate. |
| News - Regional Written by The Irrawaddy Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | A top UN official, Vijay Nambiar, who is the special adviser on Burma to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is due to discuss Burmese issues with the Singaporean government on Thursday, according to a UN press release. |
| News - Regional Written by The Irrawaddy Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | International concern about the Burmese juntas ambition to acquire nuclear weapons with North Korean assistance continues to grow, as experts, journalists and defectors release a steady stream of information suggesting that Naypyidaw is seeking to become Southeast Asia's first nuclear-armed state. |
| News - Business Written by The Irrawaddy Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:43 | | Thursday was an historic day for Burma's energy industry, as privately owned gas stations opened for business for the first time in nearly half a century. |
| News - Election Watch Written by DVB Wednesday, 09 June 2010 23:45 | | The lengthy and arterial process of registering for elections in Burma this year mirrors that of Singapore, one of Burma’s principal economic backers, a prominent would-be candidate has said. |
| News - World Written by DVB Wednesday, 09 June 2010 23:45 | | The US must appoint an envoy to Burma “without delay” in light of allegations that the pariah state is developing a nuclear weapons programme and has traded military hardware with North Korea, a senior US senator has said. |
| News - National Written by The Irrawaddy Wednesday, 09 June 2010 23:45 | | The Burmese military junta has again extended its deadline for the Karen ceasefire group, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), to transform its troops into a border guard force (BGF), threatening to resort to armed intervention unless it does so by August 10, according to sources close to the DKBA. |
| News - World Written by The Irrawaddy Wednesday, 09 June 2010 23:45 | | WASHINGTONThe United States is talking to the Burmese military junta about its international obligations to implement a United Nations Security Council resolution on North Koreas nuclear weapons program, a US official has said. |
| News - National Written by The Irrawaddy Wednesday, 09 June 2010 23:45 | | Security and surveillance surrounding possible defectors in the Burmese army has increased in the aftermath of a report disclosing the army's intent to acquire a nuclear program and missiles, according to Burmese military sources. |
| News - Election Watch Written by The Irrawaddy Wednesday, 09 June 2010 23:45 | | Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein's Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) was approved by the Election Commission to contest in the upcoming general election, the state-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported on Tuesday. |
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