Five patients who have recovered from COVID-19 were discharged from a hospital in Kalay, Sagaing Region on Tuesday morning. The five people include a 76-year-old, and four children, aged 10, eight, two, and six months. Head of Kalay District’s information and public relations department Nyi Nyi Zaw said that the individuals would be required to complete a seven-day period of home quarantine following their release. “Currently, 43 confirmed patients are still receiving medical treatment at the hospital in Kalay town,” Nyi Nyi Zaw told Khonumthung News. A total of 12 people tested positive for COVID-19 in a quarantine facility in…
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According to initial tallies, the National League for Democracy (NLD) is reporting that they won every parliamentary seat in northern Chin State’s Tedim Township, an area known as a stronghold for the ethnic Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD). There were five parliamentary seats up for election in Tedim Township, and the NLD is claiming victory in all of them. “According to the results, the NLD won in most of the areas in Tedim Township. Frankly, the NLD won all five constituencies. Polling stations already reported the results to the township election commission to approve the results,” Mang Hin Derl, the…
Based on preliminary ballot counts from Sunday’s general election, the National League for Democracy (NLD) says it is on track to win representation in 36 out of 39 constituencies in Chin State. The NLD is claiming victories in all constituencies in Paletwa, Matupi, Mindat, Kanpetlet, Falam, Thantlang and Tedim townships, as well as for four seats in Hakha and two in Tonzang. At the time of reporting, official voting results had not yet been released by the Union Election Commission (UEC). Zo Bwe, the chairperson for the NLD in Chin State, attributed the projected results to the efforts of State…
Voters in the seven wards and one village tract allowed to vote in Paletwa Township’s election cast their ballots on Sunday. Nineteen polling stations opened at 6:00 a.m. in four wards in Paletwa town, three in Sami, and in Shin Letwa village tract. Of the southern Chin State township’s 102 village tracts, the Union Election Commission canceled voting in 94 of them late last month, citing ongoing instability in the region. The move disenfranchised more than 50,000 of Paletwa’s eligible voters, leaving around 10,000 people allowed to vote on Sunday. While a Paletwa Township General Administration Department (GAD) officer described…
The construction of Mindat College is halfway finished, Chin State government spokesperson Soe Htet has announced. “The main building and some of the other buildings are not completed. I think the college will open in late 2022,” Soe Htet told Khonumthung News, referring to buildings that will serve as accommodation for teachers and students. The government started the construction of Mindat College during the 2018-2019 fiscal year, with a budget of 3 billion kyats (more than US$2.3 million). The college will have the capacity to accept 100 first-year students. The hope is that local students will be able to attend…
Civil society in Paletwa Township, southern Chin State, is reminding the government and donors that internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the region are in need of warm clothes and blankets as cold season approaches. Mai Nang Wai, who is working with the Relief and Rehabilitation Committee for Chin IDPs (RRCCI), told Khonumthung News that the IDPs fled fighting between the Burma Army and the Arakan Army in the hotter month of March, and do not have the necessary clothing to keep warm as winter approaches. “They have told us that their children do not have warm clothes. It’s not easy…
Authorities discovered four more cases of COVID-19 in Thazin and Taung Thitsa wards in Kalay, bringing the total detected in the town, located in Sagaing Region, to 47 infections. “One person, who lives in Taung Thitsa ward, lost his sense of smell and came to the hospital,” Nyi Nyi, in charge of the Information and Public Relations Department for Kalay District, told Khonumthung News. It’s unclear how the forty-year-old became infected. Three males ages 29, 33 and 49 from Thazin ward also tested positive. Their families are in quarantine. Despite the rising cases, authorities have no plan to lock down…
The Kalay Township Election Commission resolved a dispute on Wednesday between two candidates contesting for the position of Chin ethnic affairs minister in the Sagaing Region. San Thawng Thang, who is running with the Chin National League for Democracy (CNLD) had publicly suggested that his rival, independent candidate Lalthang Con, was ineligible to run for the post because he was not yet 35 years old. Lalthang Con filed a complaint with the local election commission regarding the matter and insisted on his eligibility. “I was dissatisfied with what the CNLD candidate San Thawng Thang was saying,” Lalthang Con told Khonumthung…
Election day equipment, including ballots and ballot boxes, was delivered to southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township via military helicopter on Tuesday. The materials are enough to accommodate the 10,000 people allowed to vote—more than 50,000 people in the township will not be able to participate in the election after the Union Election Commission (UEC) canceled voting in 94 village tracts, citing security concerns due to fighting between the Burma Army and the Arakan Army. The election will take place in just four wards in Paletwa town, three in Sami, and in Shin Letwa village tract. Lin Kyaw, the secretary of…
A staff member of an MRTV station in Rihkhawdar, Chin State, was beheaded on Tuesday evening in the office’s break room, according to local sources. Kap Hlay Pyaung was a 43-year-old employee at the tv station and allegedly killed by 28-year-old Shel Thang, also known as Thang Ngar, an employee of a stone-breaking factory. He was reportedly later arrested while in possession of Kap Hlay Pyaung’s severed head. The two men were believed to have had a personal dispute. “The incident occurred at around 6:30 p.m. yesterday. It happened in the microwave room of the office. Kap Hlay Pyaung was…