Presidential spokesman Ye Htut defends Meikhtila police and says the UN envoy’s allegation that his convoy was attacked is totally wrong.
Day: August 22, 2013
Without self-determination, revolution will go on: Mon militia
Speaking on the occasion of the 66th Mon Revolution Day on Wednesday, Maj Nai Siri Mon Chan, a spokesman for the NMSP, urged all Mon people to unite and join…
Karen state hit with flooding for second time in the last month
Monsoon rains inundated large swaths of Karen state earlier this week as local authorities scramble to set up relief camps in flood-hit areas.
Burma’s electricity woes harm medicines, risk lives
Due to constant power failures across Burma, medicines that need to be kept at specifically refrigerated temperatures, such as cancer medication and insulin, are becoming damaged and putting patients’ lives…
First Chin conference in six decades to convene in November
A collection of Chin political parties, civil society organisations and an armed group are set to hold the ethnic group’s first conference in six decades later this year.
Thailand urged to lay out clear migrant policy
Advocacy groups on Wednesday called on the Thai government to lay out a concrete policy for migrant workers including conditions for access to social security and healthcare.