Conflict Kachin Lead Story News
Reports are emerging of food and water shortages at the mines, and accusations that Burmese soldiers forced the families to act as “human shields”.
Ethnic issues Kachin Lead Story News
The Kachin Independence Organisation holds a ceremony in Laiza, Kachin State, to mark the retirement of its now former chairman and appointment of his successor.
A presidential proposal submitted to Parliament is seeking to reshuffle Burma’s existing anti-corruption commission, naming Aung Kyi, a former information minister under the previous military-backed government, as its chairperson.
The Lower House of Parliament has passed a bill in favour of again printing the image of General Aung San on banknotes, with the vote on Friday overcoming opposition from the chamber’s military bloc.
Twenty-seven political parties including the Union Solidarity and Development Party issue a statement accusing the National League for Democracy of taking advantage of religion, as the ruling party has organised interfaith vigils at locales across Burma in recent weeks.
International Relations Lead Story News Suu Kyi
This month’s trip will mark Suu Kyi’s first official visit to Belgium, Italy and France since taking office in 2015, and her second trip to the UK.
A National League for Democracy lawmaker representing three Sagaing Division townships has been accused of assaulting a Kalewa resident after a dispute in which both men claim to have been victim to the other’s aggression.
A proposal to name a new bridge across the Salween River in Mon State after Burma’s independence hero, General Aung San, was accepted for discussion by Parliament’s Lower House on Tuesday.
Several ethnic armed groups that are not signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have decided they will not sign the accord and instead are looking to engage in alternative-track peace talks under the leadership of the United Wa State Army.
Senior leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU) and Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) met to talk peace and war in northern Burma’s Kachin State on Wednesday.
Arakan Conflict Lead Story News
The Arakan Army reported clashing with Burmese government forces in Arakan State on Thursday morning.
Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News Parliament
In an emergency session on Wednesday, the Shan State legislature passed an urgent proposal to designate as “terrorist organisations” the four ethnic armed groups fighting with Burmese government forces in the state’s north.
The Burmese military is “on a path to annihilate the ethnic rebels,” instead of looking for a peaceful solution, say coalition.
Lead Story Media News Politics Property
The EMG CEO and chief editor are being sued by the Rangoon regional government over an article written last week alleging backhanders and cronyism.
International Relations Lead Story News Politics
“[Republicans] passed resolutions to impose sanctions on Burma to push for change. They have always supported our democratic reforms.”
More than 100 persons, who fled their villages last week amid violent scenes in Maungdaw, were transported back home on Thursday morning.
According to Shan media, the Wa army sent reinforcements and supplies to hill stations recently seized from the NDAA on 4- 5 October.
“The Tatmadaw fired six artillery rounds around six in the morning, and two landed right in the centre of the village, hitting three children who were outside playing,” an NGO worker told DVB.
The exceptionally high proportion of women in Burma who are remaining unmarried is bringing down the country’s birthrate, according to the latest census findings.
Conflict Karen Lead Story News
Ministry of Information reports that government forces clashed 13 times with renegade Democratic Karen Buddhist Army troops between 11 and 15 September.
Conflict Karen Lead Story News
The renegades had earlier warned of an “all-out war” against the local BGF; tensions had reportedly been escalating since the renegades broke from the DKBA at the beginning of the year.
“After hearing news about the outbreak on 29 July, we authorised the testing of blood and urine samples of the patients. We now have the results – it is a measles virus.”
Conflict Lead Story Natural resources News
Fighting between government troops and the KIA forces hundreds of people to flee gold-mining sites in Kachin State’s Kamaing Township.
Lead Story Natural Disasters News
More than 39,000 households in five states and divisions across Burma have been displaced by flooding so far this year, according to the Relief and Resettlement Department.
Bilin MP Thiri Yadanar told DVB that the students were taken to a local hospital after they began feeling nauseous and vomiting.
Samples of tofu and rice noodles taken from three markets in Rangoon were found to contain formalin, a carcinogenic chemical sometimes illegally used to preserve food.
Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
A band of illegal loggers who beat a forestry officer to death in Shwebo are still at large.
Malaysian movie star meets with Burma’s Transportation and Communications Minister, as well as Aung San Suu Kyi.
MPs proposed suspending construction to avoid potentially damaging a historic Buddhist stupa in the area.
Crime Lead Story News Politics
The revelation comes a day after the President’s Office warned an unnamed media company — believed to be Sky Net — about attempting to bribe officials.
