Soldiers of the Burmese Army, extorted money from a bull trader recently, local people in Rihkhawdar, Indo-Myanmar border town alleged. On June 30, Sergeant Myo Mint, Lance Corporal A. Sein and Private Kyaw U based at LIB 268 military camp in Rihkhawdar new town, Falam township, Indo-Myanmar border extorted Ks. 20 lakhs for 20 bulls from a trader at Tui Sen Phai village in Tidim township. A local said that the owner of the bulls, Mang Siang Mung had purchased 20 bulls in Kalaymyo, Sagaing region, and was taking them to Mizoram state, India to sell them, but…
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Chin political parties have chalked out a plan to work together for the 2015 election, which will be held on 8 November 2015. The working plan of the political parties’ was drafted by Salai Isaac Khin, director of Gender and Development Initiative – Myanmar and secretaries from each Chin political parties. Salai Isaac Khin said, “We chalked out how to work together in the election and how to avoid fighting each other’s candidates in the same constituency. The draft had been already sent to all parties.” Currently there are 11 Chin political parties – Chin Development Party,…
R.Thangmawia, head of the Zo Reunification Organisation (ZORO) which led a popular movement for political unity among the ethnically Chin-Lushai-Kuki of Indian, Bangladesh and Myanmar in the late 80s and early 90s, was found dead in a Geneva hotel on July 20, according to the organization he headed for almost three decades.
In the 2014-2015 academic year the class X results announced on 6 June in states and regions in Myanmar and Chin state, the pass percentage was 17.84. The result shows that the pass percentage had doubled compared to last year. The pass percentage last year was 8.07 only. This year, there were 9,639 students in class X, of these 1,720 successfully passed the examination. There are six subjects letters for 1, five subjects letters for 1, four subjects letters for 5, three subjects letters for 15, two subjects letters for 43 and one subject letters for 233.
An angry mob lynched a Burmese citizen who had slashed a 12-year old girl’s neck with a knife on 8 June at Zawngin village, Mizoram state. The man, Liankhansang, was a native of Tahan block in Kalaymyo, Myanmar and he arrived in Zawngin, Mizoram state for four weeks in order to work as a wood cutter.
The Mahemiah Co-operation Company (MCC) is planning to construct a tourist hotel in Hakha, capital of Chin state, western Myanmar if the state authorities permit, said Pu Thawng Za lian, a company official. MCC will open its office in Hakha next month and at the opening ceremony, the Chief Minister of Chin state, other ministers, local elders and religious leaders will be invited, he added.
In Chin state, the poorest state in Myanmar, only 6 per cent of children receive health care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. The UNICEF said on 5 May that children in Chin state are not developed to their age level compared to children in other states and they are thin and frail. Their weight is not normal at their age level as there is no proper health care for them. “We have village level health care centres, but the staff members in attendance are not regular. Our medicines provided from township health centres are not suitable…
Many Chin people have moved to Kaladan River bank in order to escape gun fights between Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar Army in Paletwa township. Khumi media reported that Pinso villagers in Paletwa township moved to the Indo-Myanmar border and Kaladan River bank because of gun fights in the last week of March and the first week of April in Paletwa. There are 64 houses (370 people) in Piso village.
Local people in Mindat town have opposed the construction of a new Township Hall in the town by the Chin state government. The existing Kumti Hall will be demolished. Statements by religious, political activists and civil societies in Mindat town have said that although the project of constructing the new Township Hall is welcome, destroying and replacing Kumti Hall cannot be accepted by the locals in accordance with the 2008 constitution article 354, 363, 364, and 14 as well as the declaration of UNO to prevent the heritages of Chin tribe from being destroyed. Therefore, they issued a statement…
The Chin National Democratic Party (CNDP) conducted a workshop for the 2015 general elections due in November at Thantlang town in Chin state on 30 April 2015. There were 70 participants from all party units in the town at the workshop. It mainly discussed the current peace process, the objectives of regional parties and how to prepare for the ensuing 2015 general elections.