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Raghvendra Rao
New Delhi, February 8, 2008: In a gesture aimed at making the Kaladan river navigable and allowing big ships to enter upstream into Mizoram from Myanmar’s Sittwe port, Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Mani Shankar Aiyar will venture into the waters of the Kaladan river in a boat near the Indo-Myanmar [...]

Syed Ali Mujtaba, Mizzima News
August 8, 2007 - India has offered Burma immediate use of the Sittwe port in Arakan once it is ready for navigational purposes. The offer was made after Burma expressed reservations over New Delhi’s earlier proposal where India wanted to develop the port and operate it for some time before transferring [...]

10 August 2007 (Khonumthung News): Several Burmese refugees from Chin state, Burma living in Bartam Valley in Cameron Highland, Malaysia were reportedly rounded up by the Malaysian government on Wednesday.

August 4, 2007 (Khonumthung News): In a bid to prevent the spread of the H5N1 strain of virus, Mizoram state authorities in northeast India recently seized and slaughtered around 30 pigs brought in illegally from Burma.

August 3, 2007 (Khonumthung News): The Burmese police rounded up around 70 Chins from the Five Star sea port in Taketa Township in Yangon on July 17. They were waiting to board a ship leaving Kawt Taung town, Taninsary division, the southern Burma’s border with Thailand.

August 1, 2007 (Khonumthung News): In Burma the military junta’s ban on logging of hardwood is being blatantly flouted by army personnel in Chin state with the regime turning a blind eye. Troops are into rampant felling of trees. They then sell the hardwood in the domestic markets for extra revenue for the Burma Army.

July 30, 2007 (Khonumthung News): Chin state employees of the Myanmar government are being forced to replant over 7,000 acres with Jatropha trees destroyed in a forest fire in 2005. The order to involve government employees from various departments has come from the Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) authorities.