10 October 2008, 12:58 pm
Brig-Gen Thein Zaw, the minister for communications posts and telegraphs, was scheduled to arrive in Myitkyina, the capital of the Kachin State in northern Burma, on Friday to launch a campaign for the 2010 general election. Ma Grang, a resident of Myitkyina, told The Irrawaddy that during his visi... read more
10 October 2008, 12:58 pm
Underground youth activist group Generation Wave distributed leaflets around Rangoon yesterday to mark the one-year anniversary of the group’s founding, witnesses said. A resident of Rangoon said he had seen the leaflets around the former capital. “I saw the leaflets they distributed underne... read more
10 October 2008, 12:57 pm
Residents of cyclone-devastated townships in Rangoon have complained that they are being forced by local authorities to do unpaid reconstruction work, preventing them from earning money. A resident of Shwe Paukkan township said one person per household was required to take part in the tasks. “... read more
10 October 2008, 12:57 pm
Major armed groups that had ceasefire agreements with the Burmese Army are inevitably divided between “doves” and “hawks,” as pressure to surrender arms and contest the 2010 elections mounts, according to sources inside Shan State. In the United Wa State Army (UWSA), consider... read more
10 October 2008, 12:56 pm
The unstable political and economic situation in Burma (which was renamed Myanmar by the ruling junta) is driving a section of women in Kachin State into prostitution, sources said. They have been frequenting night clubs. There are a number of women, especially ethnic Kachin women, who frequent the ... read more
10 October 2008, 12:56 pm
Famine in Chin State is causing people to abandon their native homeland, says an ethnic Chin man interviewed as he approached Three Pagodas Pass, on the Thai-Burma border. The twenty-seven-year old man was traveling with forty-one other people from Chin State, including fifteen children. Many of the... read more
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