The Borno State Government has finally put in place machinery to get public schools in the capital, Maiduguri, closed for classes over a year ago as a result of Boko Haram insurgency, opened. As part of effort to open these schools which are currently accommodating internally displaced persons (I...

The farmers gathered outside the courthouse around noon on May 4. After the six were found guilty of trespassing and each sentenced to 25 days in jail or a K500 fine, the marchers demonstrated through the streets of the capital. Led by activists from the Union of Karenni State Youth and the newly...

Burma’s government and the Thai company involved in the construction of the Asia Highway have paid compensation to landowners affected by the construction, but some landowners have claimed that they did not receive the compensation that the authorities initially promised. The landowners had their...

According to the land utilization committee, the military division based in Ye township, south Mon state is returning more than 8,000 acres of land to its original owners. U Aung Cho, chairman of the land utilization committee, said that 887.38 acres of land Township which was confiscated by four ...

More than 200 farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the town of Hpruso in Karenni State against land grabs by the Burmese military by marching to the confiscated farmland in question to plough it. Over 1,200 acres of farmland were allegedly confiscated about 10 years ago from 109 residents in So...

KNU Joint Secretary Padoh Saw Eh Nar stated that land measuring of the KNU 4th brigade region in Myeik/Dawei district will commence from the start of January to February, in order for the lands to be officially recognized by Myanmar government. The lands that will be measured are the low land and...

Yangon, 5 Aug — According to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), a community infrastructure project was implemented last year contributing to the development and rehabilitation in ethnic minority areas in Myanmar. The project was funded by Japanese government and implemented...

The military junta now governing Thailand is pressing forward with plans to create a special status border trading area with Burma as Thai overland exports mushroom and financiers urge the establishment of border factories. The move could lead to greater control of migrant Burmese labor by attemp...

A development master plan for the Yangon-Hanthawaddy-Bago corridor and Yangon's southwest will be drawn up by the Department of Urban and Housing Development of the Construction Ministry and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the government announced. A project steering committ...