Civil servants and civilians ordered by top government official in Chin state to clear areas of town for construction or face salary cuts
Day: September 8, 2011
Promises for a 'new Burma' echo past dictators
Talk of reform by Burma’s president is nothing new. Instead Thein Sein is deploying tactics used so frequently by Than Shwe and Ne Win
Suu Kyi interview lands magazine in trouble
Local magazine punished for running interview with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, her first in the domestic press
Ex-Rangoon mayor offers help to farmers
Aung Thein Lin, former Mayor of Rangoon told farmers he would help them in land confiscation case with a big hotel group reportedly attempting to seize 200 acres