The United Nation’s ‘World Teachers’ Day,’ was celebrated at the Pu Con Bik hall, Hakha, the capital of Chin state, Burma on 5 October 2012. State ministers, departmental officials, private boarding owners and the Township’s education department officials, totalling around 350 people attended the World Teachers’ Day celebrations, a celebration committee member said. “Only 22 school teachers on pension out of 48, over 70 years of age attended the celebrations,” said the committee member from Hakha. A local newspaper said that awards of 15,000 Kyats were given to each pension holding school teachers. A composition and poem reading competition was…
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Dr. Salai Lian Hmung Sakhong, Chairman of the Ethnic National Council formed by ethnic armed groups and political parties, and a member of the Chin National Front’s supreme council will visit Burma tomorrow. “I will be attending a seminar on ‘Will Democracy Bring Peace to Myanmar’ organized by the Myanmar Egress and Peace Research Institute, Oslo from 13 to 14 this month,” Dr. Salai Lian Hmung Sakhong said. Dr. Lian Hmung Sakhong will read a paper in the seminar “The 2008 constitution and Ethnic Issues: To What Extent did it satisfy the aspiration of various ethnic groups?” He will be…
Members of the Khumi Youth Association (KYA) cleaned the civil hospital of Paletwa Town, southern Chin state, Burma on a self-help basis on October 6. KYA members, who are students staying in the town and hail from rural areas and staff members of the civil hospital, totaling 47 people participated in the clean up drive, said a local. “We cleaned the hospital compound to eliminate mosquitoes. This will help the patients. It will also remove the smell in the hospital compound,” said a member of the youth group. The Khumi Youth Association was set up in Paletwa in 2002 with…
Chin people residing in the in USA will lend continuous support to the Chin National Front (CNF), which has come to an agreement with the Burmese government this year. The Chin people resettled in USA vowed to support the CNF during a meeting chaired by Salai Deniel Sakhong, secretary of strategic study department of the CNF in Atlanta from 29 to 30 September 2012. “I am very happy with the vow taken by our people to support CNF’s revolution in the future,” said Salai Daniel Sakhong. Around 2,000 Chin people from Chin state, Burma are settled in Atlanta. “I met…
The Chin National Party (CNP) and the Chin Progressive Party (CPP) will operate from a joint platform. An agreement was signed to this effect by the CNP’s Central Executive Committee members at a meeting on 6 October to operate jointly, said Salai Myo Chit, General Secretary of the CNP and a member of the joint committee. “The joint committee has decided to work together on the principles of the two parties. But some issues were not accepted by the CPP leaders. So the leaders of the two parties have to discuss these contentious issues. We have to consider working as…
Refugees of the Chin community in Malaysia were met by Salai Thla Hei, Secretary of the Foreign Department of the Chin National Front (CNF) in the last week of September.
The Burmese Social Welfare Association (BSWA) conducted a leadership training course for Burmese people working in the handloom industry in Mizoram state, India on 30 September 2012.
The Chin National front (CNF) set up an organizing committee in Hakha, capital of Chin state Burma on 21 September 2012.
An eighteen-year old pregnant woman died because of a doctor’s negligence in Matupi civil hospital, Chin state, Burma on 27 September 2012.
Flouting rules of an academic institution, two teachers of Than Tlang Town, Chin state, Burma have been forced to work as carpenters in the school for the last six years by U Htay Aung, Headmaster of the basic education high school in Than Tlang.