Myanmar Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo resigns after disappearing for a few days
Region: Myanmar
One of Myanmar Vice Presidents, Tin Aung Myint Oo resigns today after disappearing for a few days from public according to local media sources. He even did not attend the event of seeing off the President Thein Sein who went for an official visit to Japan at Naypyidaw International Airport and people were confused with his sudden disappearence. It is informed that he submitted his resignati... more
Views: 723Myanmar Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo resigns after disappearing for a few days
Region: Myanmar
One of Myanmar Vice Presidents, Tin Aung Myint Oo resigns today after disappearing for a few days from public according to local media sources. He even did not attend the event of seeing off the President Thein Sein who went for an official visit to Japan at Naypyidaw International Airport and people were confused with his sudden disappearence. It is informed that he submitted his resignati... more
Views: 603Myanmar Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo resigns after disappearing for a few days
Region: Myanmar
One of Myanmar Vice Presidents, Tin Aung Myint Oo resigns today after disappearing for a few days from public according to local media sources. He even did not attend the event of seeing off the President Thein Sein who went for an official visit to Japan at Naypyidaw International Airport and people were confused with his sudden disappearence. It is informed that he submitted his resignati... more
Views: 495Myanmar Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo resigns after disappearing for a few days
Region: Myanmar
One of Myanmar Vice Presidents, Tin Aung Myint Oo resigns today after disappearing for a few days from public according to local media sources. He even did not attend the event of seeing off the President Thein Sein who went for an official visit to Japan at Naypyidaw International Airport and people were confused with his sudden disappearence. It is informed that he submitted his resignati... more
Views: 948The First Ceremony of World Press Freedom Day Held in Mandalay,Myanmar
Region: Myanmar
The first ceremony of World Press Freedom Day was held today at the Green Elephant restaurant in Mandalay, Myanmar. A local group of free press activists organized that ceremony for the sake of more genuine rights of free expression. A senior journalist and a leading free press activist, U Win Tin sent a video message to the ceremony. In his 18-minute-long message, he highlights the importance of free expression in es... more
Views: 791Quake Threats Local People in Myanmar-India Border Area
Region: Myanmar
An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 on Monday occured in the Myanmar-India border, threating people in buildings to run outside. It is learnt that the quake was centred just inside Myanmar, 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the Indian city of Imphal, the capital of the northeastern state of Manipur, according to the US Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage and death, except for minor cracks in buildings. more
Views: 1067Suu Kyi Finally Makes Up Her Mind to Stand for Myanmar Parliament
Region: Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi, the most influential politician in Myanamr, has made up her mind on Friday to participate in coming possible by-election just after a critical meeting in NLD party headquarter, Yangon. People all over Myanmar have been interested for a long time in what the central body of NLD would decide and how Suu Kyi would keep on going ahead in her political career. Despite some old members in central body li... more
Views: 810Young Buddhist Monks Forced Back from Mandalay to Their Dwelling Monasteries
Region: Myanmar
Authoritative Buddhist monks in Mandalay drove out young protesting monks to their own dwelling monasteries on November 17. After staying at the Yaytaw Monastery for one night, five monks were called upon to the Old Masoyein Monastery before noon by the Divisional Buddhist Monks Organization for the final discussion which had been actually arranged in advance to drive them out of the Mandalay region. After a few hours... more
Views: 823Protesting Myanmar Buddhist Monks Stay Silent on the Third Day
Region: Myanmar
Young Buddhist monks leading a protest against Thein Sein government stay silent on the third day. They decided to go back to a monastery where one of them from Mandalay had lived before but the exact location is still unknown. They have not had any response from the government yet , maybe, as the President U Thein Sein is attending an ASEAN conference in Indonesia. On the second day, they organized a big audien... more
Views: 1556Demand of protesting Buddhist monks in Myanmar is successful for the first stage
Region: Myanmar
Five young Buddhist monks demanded Thein Sein government to stop civil war, to free all political prisoners in Myanmar, to provide people with genuine freedom and to make peace all around the country. They talked about peace and current conflicts between people and government in the afternoon after discussing with the chief Buddhist monk in Mandalay. Protesting monks confirmed that they had agreed to continue rep... more
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