Arakan Lead Story Natural Disasters News
A mud volcano in Kyaukphyu Township on the west coast of Burma has erupted, spilling tons of mud across three village tracts and destroying more than 100 acres of paddies fields. No one has been reported injured.
Rural villagers living west of Rangoon said they are forming a petition to protest plans to build an extensive residential and commercial development on 30,000 acres of land in their area.
Chinese technicians arrived in Rangoon on Wednesday to kick-start implementation of rice-inspection protocols as the two countries move closer to reaching a trade agreement.
Lead Story Natural resources News
Villagers in Paunglaung, located between Naypyidaw and Shan State, have said that a relocation project designed to make way for the Upper Paunglaung Dam is insufficient.
Business Weekly Lead Story News
Chin SEZs, Thai banking, Shwedagon tourist boom and flights to the Philippines in this week’s Burma Business Weekly.
A four-day regional development workshop responding to the challenges posed by drugs and environmental degradation has concluded in Shan State
Farmers in Ayadaw, Sagaing Division, said that authorities have unfairly disbursed agricultural stipends after insects ravaged the paddies of around 160 people.
Features Lead Story News Travel & Tourism Video
Thousands of visitors from Rangoon and the Irrawaddy region head to Yankinthar beach to escape the summer heat – and it’s bringing unexpected job opportunities for the local farmers.
As 70 percent of Burma’s population live in rural areas, teachers in rural schools feel that education reform should ensure they get better training and opportunities to obtain masters degrees.
Ethnic issues Law Lead Story News
130 famers face eviction as land requisitions for a military golf course in Shan State begin.
Analysis Contributor Lead Story News
Brang Hkangda of Kachinland News examines the recent military offensive in Mansi, Kachin state, and the capital interests that make peace a distant ideal.
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Farmers in Dalla township are forced to relocate after the Burmese military confiscated 500 acres of land to make way for a naval storage base.
The Burmese government on Monday morning began to relocate some of the thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims stuck in camps in western Burma, as a tropical cyclone moves closer to battering the conflict-torn region
Hundreds of Buddhist residents in western Burma’s Arakan state took to the streets this week to protest a government plan to resettle Rohingya Muslims, who were uprooted in last year’s ethno-religious clashes
Residents in the Irrawaddy Region’s Pantanaw township, which has been submerged by floodwaters for more than a month, are calling for emergency relief
Burmese soldiers loot villages and attack inhabitants as heavy fighting against the Shan State Army continues across the state
Farmland in Bago division remains underwater, bug infestation eats away at crops in nearby Rangoon and Mandalay is hit by record rainfall
Business Environment News Uncategorized
Dec 18, 2009 (DVB), Rice production in Burma, once coined the 'rice bowl of Asia', is falling due to increasingly irregular weather patterns that result from global warming, a Burmese[…]
JJ KimNov 10, 2009 (DVB), A new transport system connecting North East India with the sea via western Burma will damage the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and[…]
JJ KimNov 10, 2009 (DVB), A new transport system connecting North East India with the sea via western Burma will damage the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and[…]
Oct 19, 2009 (DVB), Armed conflict has contributed to what could be the worst food security problem in Burma's eastern Karen state in over a decade, a report by Karen[…]
Sept 7, 2009 (DVB), A tax on food has been introduced in central Burma, increasing food prices by 10 percent for people already complaining of difficulties affording basic foodstuffs. Authorities[…]
Aug 20, 2009 (DVB), Around 10,000 acres of rice paddy fields located alongside one of Burma's major rivers have been destroyed after weeks of heavy rainfall caused extensive flooding in[…]
Daniella NayuJuly 20, 2009 (DVB), For half a century, Burma's jungles and mountains have hosted a conflict where conventional weaponry has been traded for tactics designed to forever scar the[…]
Daniella NayuJuly 20, 2009 (DVB), For half a century, Burma's jungles and mountains have hosted a conflict where conventional weaponry has been traded for tactics designed to forever scar the[…]
Sept 7, 2009 (DVB), A tax on food has been introduced in central Burma, increasing food prices by 10 percent for people already complaining of difficulties affording basic foodstuffs. Authorities[…]
May 1, 2009 (DVB), Post-cyclone aid should focus on assisting villagers and farmers to rehabilitate land, said an international aid organization yesterday after voicing concern about the fragile health of[…]
Mar 18, 2009 (DVB), A young lawyer defending farmers whose land had been forcibly seized by the army was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by Magwe division court yesterday, said[…]
Mar 6, 2009 (DVB), A farmer from Ywatthit village in Rangoon's Kayan township, which was badly affected by Cyclone Nargis, has hanged himself because he could not pay his debts.[…]
Mar 5, 2009 (DVB), Locals from Kyauktaw township, Arakan state, are concerned that the recently opened Zeegyaung Dam will flood their farmland and homes. The electricity-generating dam was officially opened[…]
