Burma reports detecting A/H1N1 by Mizzima News    Monday, 29 June 2009 11:50 Chiang Mai (mizzima) – Burma’s state-owned radio on Saturday announced that the first case of A/H1N1 influenza has been detected in the country. A young girl aged 13 was brought to hospital on Friday after she reportedly suffered symptoms of the flu. It was later found that she was suffering from A/H1N1.

Authorities hold rare press briefing by Mizzima News    Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:31 New Delhi (mizzima) - Burmese authorities are today holding a rare press briefing for journalists and diplomats concerning the case of John William Yettaw, an American currently standing trial for sneaking into pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s home in early May. The press conference is being held at the Drug Elimination Museum in Rangoon’s Kamayut Township. In attendance are reporters for both local and international media outlets along with several foreign diplomats. Mizzima will report on the details of the briefing, currently in process, as information becomes available.   Climber protests against Lloyd’s of London by Mizzima News    Thursday, 18 June 2009 22:33 (News Brief) Mike Robertson, a United Kingdom climber, on Thursday morning solo-climbed the outside of Lloyd’s fourteen-storey, 88 meter-high, building in the British capital in protest of Lloyd’s of London’s financial dealings with Burma’s military junta. Read more...   Land-grams to be issued by State Council Office in Myitkyina by Myo Gyi    Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:16 (News Brief) To thwart residents from buying and selling land at will, authorities in Myitkyina town of Kachin state in Northern Burma have transferred the issuance of land-grams from the District Council office to the State Council Office. Read more...   Cholera outbreak in central Burma by Phanida    Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:17     Chiang Mai(Mizzima News)- At least 30 people have been hospitalised following an outbreak of cholera  in Thaungdwingyi town in central Burma, hospital authorities said. According to officials in Thaungdwingyi hospital, the cholera outbreak, started  about a week ago  from unclean drinking water. “All together about 35 people have been hospitalized. Children as young as one and- a-half years to four years and even grownups of about 30 or even up to 50 are suffering from the disease. It began on June 6,” the official, who declined to be named, told Mizzima. Local residents said, two children of  between 3 to 5 years and an old man of about 50 years died from the disease last week.

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