With winter approaching, internally displaced persons (IDPs) in southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township, need warm clothing and blankets by the end of this month, a parliamentarian for the area said. Paletwa MP Salai Myo Hteik said there are more than 10,000 IDPs from 2,000 families in the towns of Paletwa and Sami who are in need. “It’s really cold there in the winter,” Paletwa MP Salai Myo Hteik told Khonumthung News. “IDPs could not carry their belongings when they fled clashes… They mainly need blankets and warm clothes.” He said that it is crucial to deliver donations of clothing and…
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A lack of campaign funding led the Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD) to lose much of its stronghold in northern Chin State to the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma’s general election, the party’s secretary has concluded. The ZCD ran for 10 parliamentary seats, including nine in Tedim and Tonzang townships in Chin State and in Kalay Township in Sagaing Region. The party won two seats in Tonzang in the November 8 vote: Cing Ngaik Mang won a Lower House seat and Pau Lum Ming Thang won a state parliament seat. The rest went to the NLD. “The…
By Benezer – Some political analysts expected the Chin National League for Democracy (CNLD) to oust the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Chin State during the 2020 general election, which ended this Sunday, and not for the incumbent to dominate polls, as the NLD did during the previous race. But to many’s surprises, including CNLD executive members, it wasn’t to be. While the Union Election Commission (UEC) has not officially announced the November 8 polling results, preliminary data suggests CNLD has landed just one constituency in Chin State. CNLD secretary Salai Ceu Bik Thawng held higher expectations for his party.…
A computer error in calculating the actual number of voters in Tonzang Township’s Constituency 2 spread on social media on Monday, raising questions about an electoral race in the township and the number of people who participated in Sunday’s vote. There are a total of 8,043 eligible voters in the constituency. However, initial calculations suggested that Pau Lum Ming Thang, an electoral candidate for the Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD) had won his race in the constituency with 7,274 votes, and Thang Swin Zam, his rival from the National League for Democracy (NLD) had won 5,444 votes, for a total…
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…
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…