Ethnic issues Karenni Lead Story News
Ethnic Kayan demand representation
“Because of the current law, Kayah State does not even have a Kayan Ethnic Affairs Minister. But Shan State does.”
Ethnic issues Karenni Lead Story News
“Because of the current law, Kayah State does not even have a Kayan Ethnic Affairs Minister. But Shan State does.”
Accidents Lead Story Migrants Issues News
“Two of them survived but the other two are still missing. One of the survivors managed to grab hold of a tree root which saved his life.”
Locals in Demoso say the KNPP imposes an annual tax of about 5,000 kyat per household, and that they were given a 10 October deadline to pay up.
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Lead Story Natural Disasters News Video
Twenty eight people have now been confirmed dead as a result of a disastrous landslide in eastern Burma on Sunday.
Karenni Lead Story Natural Disasters Natural resources News
According to local sources in Mawchi, several homes were also destroyed in the devastation, leaving locals without food, shelter or clothing.
2015 Elections Karenni Lead Story News Politics
The leadership of Burma’s main opposition party has ordered a ban on its candidates from speaking to the media for at least the next three weeks.
The plan envisages a voluntary repatriation of 110,000 refugees residing in Thailand’s camps, drawing mixed reactions from camp leaders.
Aid Conflict Lead Story News Video
Cross-border aid group Free Burma Rangers recently undertook a front-line mission to Iraq, where its team embedded with Kurdish forces fighting ISIS.
Education Feature Karenni Lead Story News Refugees
Close to the Burmese-Thai border, young Karenni refugees study desperately to gain acceptance into universities worldwide. But with talks of repatriation echoing through the camps, it’s unsure how long they are to stay there.
Police in Shan State say they have apprehended two of the men responsible for freeing a man from a prison truck in Taunggyi.
Karenni Lead Story News Peace Process
Armed soldiers were amongst a delegation from the KNPP that arrived in Loikaw on Thursday for talks with Burmese military representatives
Karenni Land Lead Story News Protest
Following last week’s sentencing of three local farmers, a Karenni court finds six more guilty of trespassing, prompting local supporters to stage a rally.
As many as 500 villagers protested in front of a township court after three of their peers were sentenced for their part in a symbolic “plough protest”.
A devastating fire in a refugee camp in northern Thailand’s Mae Hong Son has left over 600 homeless and in need of immediate assistance.
Lead Story News Politics Video
Large numbers of protestors are arrested, as an image of confusion and violence in Letpadan emerges.
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Constitution Ethnic issues Karenni Lead Story News
The 63rd Karenni State Day celebrations are underway, though conflicting opinions of the occasion remain.
Conflict Karenni Lead Story Military News
Military has been “reinforcing its troops, expanding outposts, storing supplies and ammunition, and confiscating and staking off land for the army”: KCSN
On the second episode of DVB’s Doh Pyay Doh Myay Roadshow, the team explores a mountain cave in Karenni State, feared by locals to be haunted.
DVB Debate Lead Story News Video
Are ethnic voices being heard?
A bus carrying members of the Union Karenni State Youth crashed en route to Naypyidaw, leaving one passenger dead and more than 20 injured.
DVB Debate Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video
On this episode of DVB Debate, a panel of ethnic leaders and political analysts discuss the future of federalism in Burma.
Culture Karenni Lead Story News
The Karenni alphabet – kyal poe gyi or kayah li – was created in 1962, and has only ever been widely taught at refugee camps in Thailand. It appears to be modelled, linguists say, on Thai and Burmese scripts.
Karenni farmers, who sent a letter to Commander-in-chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing asking him to intervene in a local land dispute, say they have now been threatened by local military commanders.
Karenni Lead Story Natural Disasters News
A landslide induced by continuous heavy rains has killed at least one man at a Karenni refugee camp in Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand.
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As brands of Burmese alcohol compete with recently approved foreign liquor imports, Karenni villagers are fighting to retain local brewing customs.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Politics
The Nationalities Brotherhood Federation will stage public protests across eastern Shan State if a parliament approves a Proportional Representation (PR) voting system.
Lead Story News Refugees Video
Film star and UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie visited a Karenni woman and her family at a refugee camp near the Thai-Burmese border on Friday, to mark World Refugee Day.
More than 200 farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the town of Hpruso in Karenni State against land grabs by the Burmese military by marching to the confiscated farmland in question to plough it.