Crime Lead Story News Pegu Division
Serviceman murdered Pegu woman, say police
The victim, a young woman, was allegedly murdered by her lover, an air force serviceman, in Okshitpin town on 30 September.
Crime Lead Story News Pegu Division
The victim, a young woman, was allegedly murdered by her lover, an air force serviceman, in Okshitpin town on 30 September.
Human Rights Labour Issues Lead Story News
Rangoon Division’s Border and Security Affairs Minister said that punitive action would be taken against police accused of failing to protect the victims in the Ava tailor abuse case.
A policeman was injured in the melee when more than 20 men broke free a suspect caught by police with a stash of drugs in a forest.
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One of the youths was identified as the son of a local militia official, but police say the firearm seized did not belong to his father.
In the light of rumours and conspiracy theories circulating about the murder of an ex-policeman’s family in northern Rangoon, a spokesman has confirmed that the police have not yet identified any suspects.
Both cases, one in Rangoon and one in Taunggyi, involve young families, including children, who were stabbed to death in their homes for no apparent reason.
Lead Story Mandalay Division Media News
Reporter walks free from a court in Mandalay on Thursday, when he won an appeal against a conviction for punching a policeman.
Aye Aye Maw reportedly said that she then wrestled the victim into the bathroom where she repeatedly slashed her in the face and neck with the cleaver.
Fewer fatal accidents were reported on the first day of Thingyan this year, amid new restrictions and an increased police presence.
A man has been arrested for attempted murder after a shooting at a funeral wake in Pegu Division.
Police in Rangoon Division are gearing up for next month’s Thingyan water festival with plans to have 3,500 officers on duty at all times.
Crime Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News
An Irrawaddy police sergeant has died after being attacked by an escaped detainee at a local station.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
Cartoonist Hla Khin said he felt humiliated after police informed him that he was to be charged with an offence related to Burma’s 8 November election.
A man convicted of the September murder of two policemen was sentenced to death by hanging at Rangoon’s Thanlyin Township court on Friday.
Two ethnic Shan villagers were detained and tortured by Burmese Army troops believing them to be rebel soldiers, according to a local civil society group.
A police official in Tharsi Township, Mandalay, is under investigation after reportedly being abducted by two detained men suspected of drug crimes.
Investigations continue into a child abuse story that went viral in Burma last week after photos of a young girl being beaten were posted to social media.
Arakan Ethnic issues Lead Story News Rangoon
A Rangoon court has used a printing and publishing law to fine five men for printing a calendar that reffered to Rohingya as an ethnic-religious minority.
2015 Elections Lead Story News
Some 40,000 new police officers – almost one per polling station – have been drafted in to provide security for election day.
Lead Story Mandalay Division News Rangoon Sagaing
The Burma Police Force are issuing stun batons to more than 1,000 of traffic officers in Rangoon, Mandalay and Sagaing following the fatal stabbing of a policeman on 24 September.
Human rights advocates and opposition lawmakers say Burma’s current government has done little to reform colonial-era criminal laws that curtail civil liberties.
Findings in a recent public survey show that a majority of the Burmese public has little to no confident in the police, courts and Election Commission.
Minister Myint Kyu characterised homosexuality as “unacceptable” and threatened to detain and “educate” gay men in particular.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi
Burma’s Special Intelligence Department are looking for background information into the NLD election candidates, including party chairperson Suu Kyi.
A police raid on a slot machine parlour in the Karen town of Myawaddy on Tuesday night ended in a shoot-out— with two hospitalised.
Crime Drugs Lead Story News Shan
Four armed men who broke free an inmate from a prison truck and drove him to safety in Shan State last week were hired by his father, according to police.
Police in Shan State say they have apprehended two of the men responsible for freeing a man from a prison truck in Taunggyi.
A man in Arakan State’s Rathedaung died following a confrontation with police which broke out when officers tried to arrest his relative.
Education Lead Story News Protest
Sixteen-year-old Aung Min Khine, detained in the 10 March Letpadan crackdown, was granted bail in a court hearing on Tuesday due to his status as a minor.
Lead Story News Pegu Division Protest
The European Union (EU) ambassador to Burma, Roland Kobia, told journalists in Rangoon on Thursday that the EU regretted the events in which riot police cracked down violently on students’[…]