The National League for Democracy (NLD) plans to file a defamation suit against the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) upper house representative Hla Swe for “slandering” NLD officials.
Day: March 5, 2014
Government snubs National Network for Education Reform
Burma’s Ministry of Education has retracted an invitation to the National Network for Education Reform to attend a national education reform seminar in Naypyidaw
DVB Debate: Youth Voice special
DVB Debate teams up with DVB’s Youth Voice to discuss what changes the youth of Burma would like to see from their country’s development.
Reformist govt must acknowledge past: HRDP
A Burmese human rights group has urged President Thein Sein’s reformist government to create counselling and rehabilitation programmes for the victims of Burma’s previous regime.
50 arrested in raid on Moehti Moemi camp
More than 50 people were arrested on Wednesday in an early morning police raid of a camp in Yamethin, Mandalay Division, where miners and their families have sought shelter in…
Their hands, our future
A campaign called, “Their Hands, Our Future” has been set up in Rangoon to raise awareness for children whose parents cannot afford to send them to school.