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Legal document a must for Burmese migrant workers
Banyol Kin, IMNA: Mahachai City, Thailand
With the Thai Immigration Ministry imposing restrictions on migrant workers working in Thailand, the authorities are reissuing documents to workers who had missed...
Is it a crime by ethnics to observe their National Day?
The 61st anniversary National Day has been celebrated around the world where the Mon people are located. The National Day has been observed not only by Mon people in Mon State but also in western countries, UK, Canada,...
Farmers in southern Burma in Catch-22 situation
Lawi Weng, IMNA
The Burmese Army has confiscated 200 acres of paddy fields in Southern Burma, thumbing its nose on the Mon people's decade's long struggle for land rights.
According to Aung Min, a farmer in Doe-mar...
Mon civil society groups growing in Mon state (Online feature)
Lawi Weng, IMNA
On February 22 many Mon people welcome and celebrate the Mon National Day. The day is about Mon people discussing Mon issues, past and present. They talk about the...
P'doh Mahn Sha: the man I knew
Naw May Oo
Minutes after assassins killed P'doh Mahn Sha, the news reached me from across the ocean. First, I was frightened. It was almost 5 o'clock in the morning and I would wake up anyway around the same time. Half of me was...
Karen boy sentenced to 25 years for "carrying" drugs
By Lawiweng
"I came for work in Thailand now I am living in prison," said a Karen boy, Than Soe, who was sentenced to 25 years in jail after the Thai police found 1,800 amphetamine tablets in his jacket.
Than Soe was...
Beautiful Sunday and well-thought goals
Samarhti
Around the world, many people spend their Sunday in many ways. Some take rest, some go shopping, and some do what they want to. Anyhow, Sunday is their great day before starting work on Monday again....
Nai Yekha's incarceration - the price of defiance to junta's oppression
IMNA
On the fourth anniversary of their incarceration in Insein prison today, the Mon community around the world prayed for the release of Nai Yekha and Nai Cheem Gakao. The two were arrested along with seven other people on...
New York hosts series of protest against Burmese regime
Story and photos by Malay*
12/16/06 – New York City, USA
In the past weeks, New Yorkers have raised their voice against the military dictatorship in Burma...
Labour Union – the first light of dawn for workers in Thailand
Sar Nyi, IMNA
Spiraling inflation laced with growing unemployment has sowed the seeds of discontent among people of Burma. The government is in no position to offer jobs to its citizens. And for those who do have jobs, the salary is...
Where are the tigers?
Chan Mon, IMNA
Illegal trade threatens wildlife with extinction on Thai-Burma border
Buying a red-whiskered bulbul for 10 Baht (0.25 US $) in Three Pagoda Pass is no big deal. The bird, along with many others, are...
Voices of a revolutionary movement
Joi Htaw, IMNA
The Mon National Liberation Army does not serve a small group of people, nor is it used for employing or abusing people, stated a message from the New Mon State Party president, Nai Htaw Mon on the 35th anniversary of...
Soaring timber costs, dipping profits sound death knell for furniture trade in TPP
Bayol Kin, IMNA
The furniture industry in Three Pagoda Pass is in the doldrums. Escalating cost of timber and declining profits has sounded the death knell for the once flourishing industry.
Ever since the Burmese military...
Health concerns bring closure orders on tin and antimony factory
Loa Htaw
At long last the military regime in Burma has woken to the contentious issue of the tin and antimony factory in Three Pagoda Pass along the Thai Burma border and ordered its closure. Pollution from the factory was posing...
On going case unpaid migrant worker
By Kong Janoi
Ano, a migrant worker from Burma's Kayah state, never got paid for a construction project he worked on last year in Chiang Mai.
Ano was a subcontractor for a small construction company, and had hired two...
Migrant Maids Frequently Abuse
By Mi Mon Kyae
Ma Aye Than, a migrant from Mon State, was working as a maid in a Bangkok home for more than a year when she was accused of stealing a 10,000 baht clock from her employer.
Her boss called the police. "If you...
A famous Mon singer and actor
Kaysaha Mon, IMNA
"I requested my wife to allow me to make a new album for the last time. I know now it is my daughter's era," Nai Hongsar-marn a famous Mon Singer, who has been named Zawl-lat the Mon Video film actor, said while...
"Don't look down on us!"
By Lao Htaw
The 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok focused on the rights of people who are often stigmatized by society. People like sex workers. But Empower (an organization that supports and educates sex workers) was...
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