Chin Environment Land Lead Story Natural resources News Uncategorized
Ethnic villagers in Sagaing Division say that gold mining along the fourth largest river in Burma is ruining farmland and causing tension in the community
Lead Story News Protest Sagaing
The tree female defendants were indicted on two unlawful assembly charges each, while the 12 men were also indicted for sedition.
Crime Lead Story Natural resources News
The body of a police officer who drowned after his boat capsized while chasing illegal loggers on a river in Sagaing Division earlier this week was recovered on Wednesday.
An Indian gold trader based in the northeastern state of Assam has been arrested for allegedly smuggling nearly nearly $300 million worth of gold from Burma.
Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
The officials said they stopped and searched the lorry, which was accompanied by two servicemen, following a tip-off. They found 29 logs of milled lumber, weighing a total of nearly three tons.
In Monywa, although the current is just two inches above danger level, it is expected to rise, while levels in towns upstream should fall, the Met Office predicted.
Lead Story Logging News Sagaing
A band of illegal loggers who beat a forestry officer to death in Shwebo are still at large.
Government veterinarians and other officials inspected markets in Sagaing Division as a measure to prevent the spread of avian influence in the wake of a recent outbreak.
Business Health Interview Lead Story News
Sagaing Chief Minister Dr. Myint Naing speaks to DVB about the recent outbreak of bird flu and his government’s efforts to contain it.
Eight people, included their suspected ringleader, have been arrested and face charges for robbing a passenger ship on the Irrawaddy River on Sunday.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics Sagaing
A National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate collapsed and died while campaigning today in Myinmu, Sagaing Division.
DVB Debate Lead Story Natural Disasters News Video
A general election set for November could cap off five years of historic reform for Burma, but has disastrous flooding drowned Burma’s hopes for democracy?
2015 Elections Interview Lead Story News Shan
As a new party representing five Shan ethnic populations in Sagaing Division and Kachin State is formed, DVB interviews the party founders.
Justice Lead Story News Religion
Defamation charges stemming from a speech last year will see the former NLD information officer in court later this month.
Law Lead Story News Religion Sagaing
Htin Lin Oo appears in court in Sagaing division, after being sued for criticising the fundamentalist Buddhist monk-led group Ma-Ba-Tha.
Latpadaung Lead Story News Sagaing
One woman was killed and another 20 locals were injured, some critically, when riot police responded to protestors’ slingshots with live ammunition.
Environment Land Lead Story Natural resources News
Two years after a brutal police crackdown against protesters at the Latpadaung copper mine site, Amnesty Int’l has issued a press release highlighting ongoing problems with the project.
Lead Story Mandalay Division Natural Disasters News Sagaing
Seven people, including a baby, lost their lives and three are still missing as heavy flash floods hit rural areas of Mandalay and Sagaing divisions.
Some 1,500 farmers rallied for the release of 57 jailed land rights activists in central Burma’s Sagaing Division on Wednesday.
Security personnel and villagers were injured in a skirmish between farmers and police near the Latpadaung copper mine on Sunday, when villagers attempted to herd cattle in the area against official orders.
Eighteen farmers in Kanbalu, Sagaing Division, have been sentenced to jail terms of up to three and half years for ploughing seized lands, a newly popular form of protest in Burma.
Three farmers in Sagaing Division were sentenced to three years in prison for “trespassing” after staging a “plough protest” in Kanbalu.
Constitution Lead Story News Politics Sagaing
The campaign for constitutional reform continues as activist group 88GPOS joins the NLD in central and southeastern Burma, greeted by crowds in the thousands.
Environment Lead Story News Society Video
After two months of walking across the country, a group of campaigners dubbed the ‘Myitsone marchers’ reach Sagaing Division’s Katha district.
Environment Lead Story Natural resources News
Chin civic groups and politicians have demanded full public disclosure of the scope and impact of the Mwe Taung nickel mine, fearing that the environmental and social impacts may be far more severe than current data predicts.
Residents of Ayadaw Township in Sagaing Division claim they were forcibly recruited for the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) by local civil servants when they applied for citizen identification cards.
Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi
Thousands of supporters greeted Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the town of Kale in Sagaing Division on Monday when she made a stop in the town en route to western Burma’s remote Chin state.
Environment Lead Story News Video
More than 2,000 residents of Kale in Sagaing division have been evacuated as houses are swept away by the current.
