Sunday, October 12, 2014

Democratic Voice of Burma

Democratic Voice of Burma

Cultures converge at Wa harvest festival

Posted: 12 Oct 2014 02:52 AM PDT

For two-thousand years, Burma’s Wa ethnic minority have been ringing in the harvest season with the festival of Kauk Thit Sar Pwe.

The celebration was banned under military rule, as the post-1988 military junta silenced many ethnic traditions.

Now, the Wa harvest festival is being celebrated again, with aspects of both traditional animist ceremony and the Christian beliefs left behind by British colonialists.
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National News

National News

Amnesty panned as MI officials, not political prisoners, walk free

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:31 AM PDT

Political prisoner and human rights groups say they are disappointed with the latest amnesty, which saw only one confirmed political prisoner freed.

MPs agree to join arms convention

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:08 AM PDT

The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw last week approved the president's request that Myanmar become a member country of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

Ministry of Home Affairs flags softer penalties for drug use

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:07 AM PDT

Sentences for those convicted of drug use, which range from five to 15 years, are under review, Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Brigadier General Kyaw Kyaw Tun has told MPs.
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