Burma:Visa on arrival hopes dashed
Burma will not be bringing back the visa-on-arrival scheme anytime in the near future because of a lack of improvement in tourism infrastructure, the tourism minister has stated. The announcement...
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View ArticleBurma Democratic Concern (BDC): Implementing Action Plans To Take Place...
In Burma, junta claimed that they handed over the power to U Thein Sein led USDP government which emerged from the sham election held in 2010 which was held in accord with sham constitution, sham...
View ArticleThailand’s National Security Council (NSC) has banned a Burmese pro-democracy...
Thailand’s National Security Council (NSC) has banned a Burmese pro-democracy event in Chiang Mai following a complaint from Naypyidaw, according to sources in the northern Thai city. The prohibition...
View ArticleCongratulation to the graduation of New FREE BURMA RANGER Relief Teams in Loi...
The graduation ceremony of the Leadership and Relief Team Training was jointly held by Restoration Council of the Shan State (RCSS) and Free Burma Rangers (FBR) on 3 May, 2011 in Loi Tai...
View ArticleUN Special Envoy to Burma Vijay Nambiar is scheduled to visit Burma on Thursday
Acting UN Special Envoy to Burma Vijay Nambiar is scheduled to visit Burma on Thursday, with his main agenda being to forge new ties with the new government, according to an official source in...
View ArticleName of groups providing assistance to the quake victims in Shan State
(Partness) II. Others include: 1. World Vision Drinking water 2. Taiwan Tzuchi Foundation Buckets, blankets, mosquito nets, K 100,000 for each dead victim and K 50,000 for each unliveable house 3. Shan...
View ArticleWAR_Updated Shan News 10.may
10 May 2011 A business woman, Ma Ngwe, over 40, shot to death by unknown gunman, at 19:00, 6 May, at her home quarters in Maekhao, Tachilek City. She was a well known “mamasan” and reputed to be a...
View Articleအၿငိမ္းစားယူခဲ့သည့္ DKBA တပ္ဖဲြ႕၀င္ေဟာင္းမ်ားအား အသက္အႏၱရာယ္ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ခံရ
ေမလ ၉ရက္။ ေစာသိန္းျမင့္ (ေကအုိင္စီ) နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ (BGF) မဖဲြ႔စည္းခင္ အသက္အရြယ္ေၾကာင့္ အၿငိမ္းစားယူခဲ့သည့္ တုိးတက္ေသာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား တပ္မေတာ္ DKBA တပ္ဖဲြ႕၀င္ေဟာင္းမ်ားသည္ ယခုအခ်ိန္တြင္...
View ArticleIn honour of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is recalling...
In honour of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is recalling Aung San Suu Kyi’s dictums. 10.May 2011 1: “Words need to be back up by Action” “There have been many words supporting...
View ArticleThai coal mining in Burma considers handing over its products to China
TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011 15:52 HSENG KHIO FAH Thai-Burma Relations A Thai coal mining company, Saraburi, a subsidiary of Ital-Thai that was granted a 30 year coal concession in Shan State East’s Mongkok...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Save the Mekong Coalition Calls on ASEAN Leaders: Cancel the...
[6 May 2011] As ASEAN leaders meet for the 18th ASEAN Summit inJakarta, Indonesia, the Save the Mekong coalition calls on ASEAN leaders to act immediately to cancel the Xayaburi Dam in Lao PDR. The...
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