Saturday, June 16, 2012
Karen people’s forum demands all mega development projects be stopped
14-Jun-12
The Karen People’s Forum has demanded the Burma government
and the Karen National Union
suspend all mega development
projects in Karen State
during the current peace negotiation process.
Government to enforce motorbike registrations : Source
15-Jun-12
Residents in Burma’s
Tenasserim Division claim government
authorities have begun registering
thousands of illegally
imported motorbikes from Thailand.
United villagers are 100 times better off than those who go it alone
15-Jun-12
The Italian-Thai Development Company has made
a second
compensation payment to Karen villagers affected by
the
Dawei-Kanchanaburi road construction in eastern Tavoy Town.
Exhausted Suu Kyi Falls Ill during Press Conference
15-Jun-12
BERN,
Switzerland—A rock star
welcome greeted Aung San Suu Kyi
as she embarked on her first trip to Europe in 24 years. But after
a whirlwind of standing
ovations, speeches and receptions,
it all became too much, and she fell ill on
Thursday during
a news conference in Switzerland.
31,844 displaced refugees in Burma’s Rakhine State
Friday, 15 June 2012 10:14 Mizzima
News
Burma’s minister for border affairs, accompanied by the top U.N.
Burma
envoy and Islam leaders, visited Maungtaw in Rakhine State
on Thursday,
where they met people whose homes were destroyed in the recent
sectarian unrest.
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