flora and fauna Lead Story News Pegu Division
Elephant poaching in Burma is on the rise amid an increasing demand for ivory and other products made from elephant parts, such as its skin, which is used in traditional medicine.
Lead Story Logging News Pegu Division
The incident is the latest in a spate of violent confrontations between law enforcement officials and illegal loggers in Kyauktaga Township.
Environment Lead Story Logging News
As the NLD government steps up efforts to protect Burma’s forests, officers in the Pegu mountain range face off with increasingly violent loggers.
Lead Story Logging News Pegu Division
Law enforcement officials in Pegu Division’s Kyauktaga Township open fire on trucks carrying illegal timber as they tried to run a checkpoint.
Accidents Lead Story Military News
All three crew members aboard a Burmese Air Force helicopter were killed when it crashed in the Pegu Division town of Daik-U on Tuesday.
flora and fauna Lead Story News Pegu Division
Locals say it is common for wild elephants to roam around villages on the edge of the Pegu range during the harvest in monsoon season.
According to locals, at least three people in Taikkyi are killed by wild elephants every year.
Environment Lead Story Natural resources News
Burma’s largest producer of timber has declared a nationwide, one-year moratorium on logging, according to a spokesperson for the state-owned enterprise.
A wild elephant on Sunday rampaged through Lu Thant Inn village in Taikkyi Township, north of the commercial capital Yangon, destroying six houses and a monastery.
The new bus service has only been running for two days, but disputes and complaints are already amounting up.
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.
Human Rights Lead Story News Photos
Some 20,000 convicts toil in prison labour camps across the country, where they face abuse, exploitation and forced labour, a Myanmar Now investigation finds.
Environment flora and fauna Lead Story News
The elephant, which died of gunshot wounds, was discovered in Pegu Division last Friday, two weeks after another elephant was found killed by poachers in Arakan State.
Education Feature Lead Story News
Military rule wrecked Burma’s higher education system and the new government faces many challenges to restore it.
Ethnic issues Karen Lead Story News Obituary
One of Burma’s most recognisable ethnic rebel leaders has passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Fifty-three education reform activists languish in jail, all of whom are considered prisoners of conscious by Amnesty International.
Human Rights Lead Story News Politics
Jailed for religious defamation, New Zealander Phil Blackwood is the sole foreigner on Amnesty International’s list of 91 prisoners of conscience in Burma.
2015 Elections Interview Lead Story Rangoon
DVB spoke to Yi Yi Sa, the Modern People’s Party’s Lower House candidate in Kawhmu Township, the same township as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
flora and fauna Lead Story Magwe News
Some 60 forestry staff arrive in Kyaukpadaung, bringing six tame elephants to lure the wild herd, and tranquiliser guns in case things get out of hand.
The central Burmese flatlands is not considered as a natural environment for Burma’s estimated population of 2,000 wild elephants.
Police in Letpadan have reacted with force against up to 200 students and their supporters after tensions boiled over at the protest site.
To celebrate what would be the one hundredth birthday of Burmese independence hero Aung San, a Rangoon theatre troop will stage a ‘poetic opera’
A village in Rangoon Division’s Hlegu Township has been inundated by floods for the past two weeks, with no sign of water levels abating due to a block in the drainage system.
About 1,000 homes have been inundated in Hlegu, Rangoon Division, after heavy rains flooded the Ngamoeyeik creek and the Pegu River.
Contributor Development Lead Story News
DVB contributor Jessica Mudditt takes a look into Burma’s ever-growing poultry business.
Contributor Lead Story News Society
Although it’s well understood that additional services may be provided at massage parlors and karaoke bars, most managers and staff will vehemently deny the fact when a health worker comes knocking on the door.
Several villages in central Burma’s Pegu division were inundated this week with water from local reservoirs after several days of heavy raining.
Burmese nationals who were being forced to work long hours for little pay at a shrimp factory in Thailand’s Samut Prakan province were released after their trafficker was arrested in Burma
A myopic focus on ‘political’ progress obscures the fact that for millions in Burma’s borderlands, nothing has changed since the 2010 elections. Direct testimony from rural communities is the only way to gauge this reality
Tin Tin Aye said to be severely traumatised after being abducted at the age of nine and locked in a shed behind a house for four decades
