7 December 2011: In a surprise move, over one and-a-half billion lakh Kyats were provided to Chin state for development and to bring down poverty in the state by Mr. Win Tun, Union Minister for Forests this month.
Author: Editor
The Chin National Party (CNP) welcomed peace talks between the Chin National Front (CNF) and Chin state government. The peace talks will be held in January next year in Hakha, the capital of Chin state.
A training on “Rural development eye opening” was conducted by Chin National Party (CNP) in Chin state, Burma last month.
The relationship between Burmese military personnel and local people in Chin state, Burma seems to be becoming positive and constructive by the day after the new government came to power in 2010.
Some local people of Chin state, Burma have shifted to other places from areas where they were settled for fear of Manipuri insurgent groups, who have been permitted to settle in Haicin village of Cikha sub-township of Ton Zang town, Chin state, by the Burmese government.
The Central Anti-Drugs Squad (CADS) has arrested a Chin national, who tried to forcibly sell a teenaged Chin girl on 24 November in Aizawl, Mizoram northeast state of India.
On a request by the Burma Social-Welfare Association (BSA) authorities, Burmese migrants staying in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram have been inoculated with Hepatitis B prevention medicines for the first time at the lowest possible rates by the Samaritan Society of Mizoram (SCM) on 19 November.
Following negotiations between the Burmese government and ethnic armed groups comprising the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), Karen National Union (KNU), Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and Chin National Front (CNF) on 19 November, the Burmese government and CNF will go for peace talks in Hakha, the capital of Chin state within January 2012.
A Chin refugee was stabbed to death by Thin Lin from Hmawbi Township, Rangoon division, Burma in Cameroon highland of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at around 5 pm local standard time on November 16.
Chin Churches abroad will hand over 500 lakhs Kyat for around 30,000 Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) created in the conflict between the new Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Army after the ceasefire agreement was broken.