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Residents face water crisis after cyclone Nargis
IMNA
After being lashed by Nargis cyclone, people are not getting enough water and the cost of water has become excessive.
According to Rangoon residents, they have to buy one litre of purified water for about...
Rangoon residents pay out of their nose for zinc and nails
Mon Son, IMNA
Rangoon residents have to pay the cost of zinc roofing from the authorities’ donation to rebuild their homes after cyclone Nagris lashed Rangoon.
The Rangoon local authorities have asked zinc companies...
Residents face crisis of rice
Leyh Mon and Non Dae
Residents in Rangoon (Yangon) are facing acute crisis in procuring rice given the scarcity in the wake of cyclone Nargis lashing parts of Burma including Irrawaddy and Rangoon divisions.
After the storm,...
Commodity prices rise after cyclone Nargis
Mon Son,IMNA
Cyclone Nargis has only worsened the economic situation in Burma. Now people have to put up with soaring prices of essential commodities.
A Rangoon resident said that many essential commodity prices have...
Residents restrict travel due to rising bus fares
IMNA
Mounting bus fares have forced most residents in Rangoon (Yangon) to restrict travelling around town after cyclone Nargis lashed Burma (Myanmar).
The trips being made by residents have come down after...
Cyclone damage in Mon State minimal
IMNA
There has been no serous damage in Mon State, but cyclone Nargis destroyed about 16 houses in a Mon village in Thanbyuzayat Township.
A village called Htin-yuu, in Thanbyuzayat Township saw 16 houses...
Commission for referendum marks 'Yes' vote for people
IMNA
Commission holding for the referendum has already cast 'Yes' vote for quite a number of people for the May 10 to approve the draft constitution.
According to a businessman in Thanpyuzayart Mon State, "the...
Referendum commission compiles list of elders foe 'Yes' votes
IMNA
The Commission for Holding Referendum (CHR) in Mon State is compiling a list of elders for voting to support the draft constitution.
Recently the commission started making a list of elders who want to vote...
Former NMSP Army Chief reacts to party accusation
IMNA
Former New Mon State Party (NMSP) army chief, Nai Aung Naing who has disassociated himself from the party has reacted to a party statement accusing him of being a traitor.
His peace group released a...
UNA urges people to vote "No"
IMNA
The ethnic opposition parties' alliance, United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) has called on the people to vote against the Burmese junta's draft constitution.
People should not vote "Yes" to approve the...
New Mon grammar book drafted
IMNA
For the first time a modern Mon grammar book was drafted yesterday by a Mon linguistic team in Mouleminm capital of Mon State,
With the idea of improving Mon grammar, 15 members of a team held a meeting...
If you vote "No" you go to jail: TPDC member
IMNA
Khaw-zar Sub-Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) members are exhorting people to vote "Yes" for those voting "No" would be sentenced to jail.
Recently the Khaw-zar TPDC held a meeting with village...
Referendum campaigns speed up in Mon state
IMNA
Both the Burmese military junta and activists in Mon State have stepped up campaign for "Yes" and "No" votes respectively in the run up to the referendum.
The Mon State Peace and Development Council sent a...
Export of rice prohibited in Three Pagoda Pass: traders
IMNA
Export of rice has been banned in Three Pagoda Pass on the orders of the Military Southeast Command, according to rice traders.
Three Pagoda Pass Township Peace and Development Council and the military...
Polling stations in schools for May referendum
IMNA
Government schools in townships will be converted to polling stations for the referendum. Orders have been issued to conduct remote teaching in Mon summer schools held in government school precincts, according to the...
Nay Pyi Taw sends team to investigate 54 suffocation cases
IMNA
The military brass in Nay Pyi Taw has sent three delegates to look into the 54 deaths of migrant workers who suffocated inside a container of a ten-wheel truck while illegally going to Phuket and further south of...
Lack of cassette puts spanner in referendum campaign
IMNA
Myanmar's attempt to hold a constitutional referendum may be running into problems thanks to the lack of a video cassette. At a meeting held yesterday between Mon State' Commission for Holding Referendum and the headmen...
Low turnout at referendum in Bangkok's Burmese embassy
Banyol Kin, IMNA
Bangkok: Only a hundred of the estimated one million Burmese living legally in Thailand voted for the constitutional referendum held in the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok today. The low turnout is believed to be a result of...
Fifty Muslims starve for a week after boat runs out of fuel at sea
IMNA
About 50 Muslims survived when their boat drifted into a costal Mon village in southern Mon state after they faced drastic food shortage for a week and their boat ran out of fuel in the middle of the Andaman...
Junta desperate to have constitution approved: MNDF leader
IMNA
The Burmese military junta is desperate to have the draft constitution approved at any cost even though people by and large do not want to accept it, said a leader of the Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF).
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Government staffs forced to sign pledge to cooperate on referendum
IMNA
Departmental officers of the Burmese government have been made to sign a pledge that they will work in coordination with the referendum commission to campaign to the people to cast the ‘Yes' vote.
A school...
Referendum campaigns wide spread in Mon state during water festival
IMNA
Referendum campaigns launched by both military government authorities and Vote “NO” activists wide spread in Mon State during Songkran (New Year water festival). However, the local people could be forced to give...
Mon Splinter Group Shot a Passenger Ferry, Three Civilians Injured
IMNA
A Mon splinter troops led by Nai Ein Dae and his 7 men shot into an innocent passenger ferry returning from a pagoda in southern Ye Township about 5: 00 p.m. on April 15, and three Mon villagers serious injured, informed...
Rice export lucrative business in Three Pagoda Pass
IMNA
Export of rice from Burma to Thailand has become a lucrative business. This is because price of rice has gone up in Thailand where as it is cheaper in Burma.
"At least 300 more sacks (1 sack = 60 Kg) of rice...
At least 59 Mon ethnic migrants suffocate and die in container truck
IMNA
In a major tragedy at least 59 Mon ethnic, Burmese migrants from Mon State, Burma including children died due to suffocation in a container of a ten-wheeler truck while illegally entering southern Thailand last...
Difficult for ethnics to teach their languages: MNDF
IMNA
Ethnics are finding it extremely difficult to teach their languages despite the Burmese regime's draft constitution providing for rights of ethnics in its charter, a Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF) member said at...
Burmese military uses porters to carry injured soldiers
IMNA: Three Pagoda Pass:
Villagers are being forced to carry wounded soldiers by the Burmese Army following clashes with Karen rebels. The army from Tactical Command No.2 is operating along Thanpyuzayart-Three Pagoda Pass (TPP)...
Vote "No" and wait a decade for elections: Referendum Commission
IMNA
As the referendum draws near the Burmese military regime is stepping up its aggressive campaign. The referendum commission in Mon state has told residents that they would have to wait a decade for general elections if...
TPP authorities force families to relocate without compensation
By Lawi Weng, IMNA
Two families were ordered to relocate their homes in Jueplut Village, near Three Pagoda Pass on the Thai-Burma border.
The order was issued on April 4 and the families have till the end of the month to...
Rice Price Beats up within a week
IMNA
While the southeast Asia were having rice shortage, Burma rice price beat 850 baht a 60 kg bag, said a local rice vendor in Three Pagoda Pass, Thai-Burma border.
“The price hit triple a time First week of...
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