Pyinmana News

In the three years that he was an injecting drug user, Phoe Htoo (not his real name) shared a needle with just one person—a close friend he grew up with. The 23-year-old said he and his friend always went to...

She contracted the deadly virus from a blood transfusion after being admitted to a hospital for a miscarriage. Not knowing how she contracted HIV, she accused her husband of having unprotected extra-marital sex. She did not accept her husband's protestations...

Ferryboat ‘Nay Myo Tun’ plying on the Basein-Thetkethaung route collided with a barge carrying diesel at the mouth of the Nga Wun River near Shan Gu village, south of Basein in the Irrawaddy Division on 15 November at about 7:45...

It is with pride and honor that we (those who forged the circle) have devised a way that you (the Chosen One) can enter the sacred realm and fulfill your true destiny. Until now, Mars was in the house of...

In the seven years since Boston, MA cerebro-punk icons Mission of Burma reformed – ending a 19-year wilderness following their 1983 split – the amount of bands who have followed their lead and got back together has increased year on...

The activists including popular woman activist Naw Ohn Hla were arrested on October 3, for offering alms to monks at the Magwe monastery in Dagon satellite township of Rangoon, on the eve of Thadingyut festival. The four are being tried...

Yuzana Company, which has the backing of the Burmese military junta, has threatened to demolish a Kachin village in Hukawng Valley following a dispute between the company’s workers and local youth in western Kachin State, said village sources. There was...

Afterwards, the secretary-general, the joint-secretary-general, CEC members, delegates of the association at state and division level continued the AGM according to the agenda. The AGM concluded chanting of slogans. – MNA   Search Post Date : Monday, Nov 30th, 2009...

Campaigning for the 2010 general elections in Burma seems to have begun in earnest from the military junta’s side with the Deputy Minister of Power and Electricity visiting Tidim town and Tawnzang town in Chin state on November 13 to...

A teenaged girl committed suicide by jumping off a four-storey building in Burma’s former capital Rangoon on Monday, police said. The Lanmadaw Police Station in downtown Rangoon told Mizzima that a 16-year old girl, Zin Thu Htet, killed herself on...