Rats exacerbate food insecurity in Chin State

BANGKOK, 3 February 2009 (IRIN) – Food insecurity in Myanmar’s remote and impoverished Chin State, northwestern Myanmar, has worsened following a major infestation of rats.
“It has been well documented that food insecurity in Chin is chronic,” Chris Kaye, country representative for the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) told IRIN from Yangon, the former Burmese capital.
“The [...]

Student and lecturer arrested in campus raid

Feb 2, 2009 (DVB)–A student and a university lecturer were arrested last Wednesday on Hlaing University campus in Rangoon by government officials who raided their dormitory and seized documents.A student who lives near Kapaung dormitory on Hlaing campus said authorities arrested the lecturer in the dormitory after arresting a student who [...]

Pictures of boat people put pressure on Thailand

ထိုင္း ေရတပ္မွ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို ဖမ္းဆီး ရက္ဆက္ေနပံုပါ။ ျမန္မာတာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ား ႏႈတ္ပိတ္ေန။

Rohingyas claim Myanmar abuse

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ႏိုင္ငံလား။ လူမ်ိဳးခြဲျခား ဆက္ဆံတာလား။ တိုင္းသူျပည္သားေတြကို လူသားျခင္းမစာနာတာလား။
က်ေနာ္ မြတ္ဆလင္မဟုတ္ပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးစိတ္မ၀င္စားပါ။
ဒါေပမဲ့ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာစိတ္ရွိပါတယ္။ စာဖတ္သူတို႔ သူတို႔ေနရာ အစား၀င္ၾကည့္ပါ။
Al Jazeera has uncovered fresh evidence from Thailand’s southwestern coast of another instance of abuse of Muslim Rohingya boat people.
A recently arrived group of refugees say their boat was boarded by soldiers from Myanmar, who beat them and tried to set fire to [...]

Thailand ‘Dumps Refugees At Sea’

Pressure is mounting on Thailand after allegations that the army towed refugees out to sea and abandoned them in boats without engines.
ထိုင္းစစ္တပ္က စက္ျဖဳတ္ၿပီး ပင္လယ္ေရထဲေမွ်ာလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အိႏၵိယေရတပ္မွ ကယ္လိုက္မွ အားလံုး ဗူး ေပၚသလို ေပၚလာပါတယ္။

Footage seen on CNN appears to show the military towing the ill-equipped vessels away from land before cutting them adrift.
The cable news channel also interviewed a [...]

Myanmar Rapper, Jock Jack was banned

ဟစ္ေဟာ့အဆုိရွင္ ေဂ်ာက္ဂ်က္အား စာေပစိစစ္ေရးႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဂီတအစည္းအ႐ုံးက ေခၚယူ၍ ခံ၀န္ကတိလက္မွတ္ထုိးခုိင္းေၾကာင္း ဟစ္ေဟာ့သတင္းရပ္ကြက္က သိရသည္။ ျမန္မာနိဳင္ငံတြင္း မည္သည့္ေနရာတြင္မဆို က်င္းပသည့္ စင္ၿမင့္ေဖ်ာ္ေၿဖပြဲမ်ား၌ ေဂ်ာက္ဂ်က္နာမည္သံုး၍ သီဆိုေဖ်ာ္ေၿဖခြင့္ကို ပိတ္လိုက္တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ Bi Weekly Eleven ဂ်ာနယ္ ႏွင့္ အျခားျမန္မာ သတင္းမီဒီယာမ်ားရဲ့ ေဖာ္ျပခ်က္အရ ဆင္ဆာမဲ့ ညစ္ညမ္း ျမန္မာသီခ်င္း ေတြ သီဆုိမွဳနဲ႔ ပတ္သတ္ျပီး ေဂ်ာက္ဂ်က္ကို အခုလို အေရးယူခဲ့ တာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ ေဂ်ာက္ဂ်က္သည္ ဟစ္ေဟာ့ေလာကထဲသုိ႔ ၂၀၀၄ ခုႏွစ္က စတင္ေရာက္ရွိလာကာ Underground အေခြမ်ား ေ၀ၿပီးခ်ိန္မွစ၍ နာမည္ရလာၿပီး VIP အဖြဲ႕တြင္ Ah.Boy၊ ထိန္၀င္း၊ ေက်ာ္ထြဋ္ေဆြတုိ႔နဲ႔အတူ သီဆုိသူတဦးျဖစ္သည္။ ေဂ်ာက္ဂ်က္ရဲ့ Rap သီခ်င္းေတြကိုေတာ့ Internet [...]

Myanmar Chinese New Year

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