Latpadaung Lead Story News Sagaing
Protesters confronted police along the Pathein-Monywa Road near the controversial Letpadaung copper mine in Salingyi Township on Monday, in the latest dust-up over the Chinese-backed project in southern Sagaing Division.
A Buddhist nationalist organisation and local authorities in Naypyidaw are at loggerheads over a planned protest in the capital aimed at Burma’s minister for religious affairs and scheduled for tomorrow.
Education Lead Story Mandalay Division News
The four demanded that their handcuffs be removed during the hearing. When their demand was denied, they began singing political songs.
Scores of protesters on Sunday took to the streets in Sittwe demanding the release of Buddhist monk Nanda Thara and a layman, Khaing Ni Min, who were arrested last month and face unlawful association charges after organising a football match in the name of the Arakan Army.
Education Lead Story Mandalay Division News
The four students were detained for staging a protest against what they called “military-style oppression” within Burma’s education system.
Buddhist abbot Nanda Thara stands accused of organising a football match involving the outlawed Arakan Army.
Lead Story Military News Sagaing
Manipuri locals accuse Burmese soldiers of intruding onto Indian territory and terrorising local villagers.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Protestors call for the arrest of local immigration chief for issuing national ID cards to 53 Rohingyas.
Thousands of people protested in eastern Burma on Sunday against plans to name a bridge after Aung San Suu Kyi’s father, the latest flashpoint between her administration and the country’s ethnic minorities.
Analysis Contributor Ethnic issues Lead Story
Ethnic communities across Burma are raising their voices to strongly oppose plans by the Burma government and the global hydropower industry to build large dams that threaten to destroy their lives and livelihoods.
Arakan Citizenship Lead Story News Rohingya
ANP accuses regional immigration chief of issuing a national ID card to a “Bengali” woman who was born to non-Burmese parents.
Arakan Lead Story Media News Rohingya
Locals in seven townships across Arakan State staged protests on Friday against a new radio station broadcasting in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships and providing Rohingya-language programming, which the protesters view as legitimising the Rohingya population.
Electricity Kachin Lead Story News
Activists and members of the public in Myitkyina staged a protest on Tuesday against hydroelectric dam proposals as a workshop was being held in the Kachin State capital to discuss issues surrounding these often contentious developments.
Ethnic issues Lead Story Natural resources News
They volatile situation in the areas in question renders plans for dam construction unsuitable at this time, said one NGO spokesperson.
Protestors say an upgrade in status would help administrators alleviate the area’s dire transport difficulties.
Arakan Ethnic issues Lead Story News Politics
Locals in Taungup, Arakan State, staged a protest on Sunday to voice their displeasure at the factionalism that has beset one of the country’s strongest ethnic political parties as members[…]
Lead Story News Shan Travel & Tourism
Plans to build stages for viewing Taunggyi’s annual hot-air balloon contests are scrapped after local groups protest the commercialization of the event.
Labour Issues Lead Story News Protest
Fifteen workers from a Sagaing-based plywood company receive prison sentences for scuffling with police during a protest in Naypyidaw in May.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Jeers and chants denouncing the panel intensified upon the arrival of Annan’s plane. The crowd soon followed the convoy into town, writes Reuters.
Arakan Lead Story News Society
Ei Mi San, a Taunggup woman who joined the protest, said: “Moral decay is setting in among our young people to the point we are now afraid to go out at night.”
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Arakanese Buddhist nationalists express anger at the government’s suggestion to the UN that sessions avoid using either of the terms “Rohingya” or “Bengali”.
Lead Story News Protest Rohingya
Ashin Kawthala, the chairperson of the Magwe Division chapter of the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion, accused the protestors of “trying to whip up hatred”.
Contributor Kachin Lead Story News
Kachin NGOs react to China’s perceived attempt to resurrect Myitsone dam project.
Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News
Two ethnic Ta’ang civil society organisations have voiced concerns about ethnic tensions with Shan communities following a protest in northern Shan State on the weekend.
Environment Kachin Lead Story News
Residents of Hwaysai village say the mine, operated by local businessman Kyauk Win, has been eroding the banks of Uru Creek and obstructing the flow of water since it began in March of this year.
Latpadaung Lead Story Natural resources News
The recent resumption of protests over the Chinese-backed Latpadaung copper mine comes as China steps up its campaign to restart stalled projects in Burma.
Dozens of student protestors and a few high-profile activists were released today, but the fate of a number of others remains unclear.
The protestors were angered by a decision that deemed the elected local administrator “unfit” for the job because of his physical disabilities.
Away from the presidential nomination spotlight, 10 March also marks the one-year anniversary of the violent police crackdown on student protestors in Latpadan.
Staff at Rangoon General Hospital are protesting a decision to rent out a portion of its land to a company for the construction of a private hospital.
