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January 19, 2013
<p>The Burmese call it “Tayote Tan,” and it is located in downtown Rangoon, west of the Sule Pagoda. This bustling exciting neighborhood lies...
January 19, 2013
A Rangoon developer, Mandalay Golden Wings Construction Company, has announced that it will build a 34-storey luxury apartment building in the...
January 19, 2013
Burmese marriage brokers are seeking local women to marry men living in China, offering several thousands of dollars as incentive, according to a...
January 19, 2013
Burma opened the 19th Myanmar National Races’ Traditional Performing Arts Competition–2012 on Tuesday, which celebrates the country's traditional...
January 18, 2013
An article published in October by researchers at an US university shows a 100-million-year-old fossil of a spider about to attack a wasp in the...
January 18, 2013
A Brit who is dancing across Britain to raise funds for Burmese refugees and other groups was struck by a car on Wednesday. He was admitted to a...
January 18, 2013
As Golden Triangle drug boss Naw Kham awaits sentencing in China, his family says his former friends have abandoned him. The once powerful gang...
January 18, 2013
In a sign of high-end travelers’ interest in touring Burma, a second Orient-Express Hotel river vessel will be launched to cruise the Irawaddy River.
January 10, 2013
First use of airstrikes by the government in twenty years raises prospect of increased numbers of civilian deaths in conflict areas – community...
December 15, 2012
Migrant workers from Burma sit on benches in and outside an labor ‘agents’ office on a small dusty road in the back blocks of the Thai border town of...
December 13, 2012
Hsa Keh village is a small fishing community – nothing more than a line of small bamboo houses with leaf roofing. Under a clear sky, three small...
November 19, 2012
The Karen National Union’s (KNU) next four-year Congress and elections will be held on 26 November. The KNU Congress is also the political...
October 22, 2012
As many as a thousand people turned out to pay their last respects at Padoh Saw David Taw’s funeral which was held at Thay Bay Hta in the Karen...
October 22, 2012
Small girls and boys in a variety of traditional Karen costumes – girls wear striped, white, blue and yellow dresses, while boys wear red.
October 22, 2012
Pyaw Pyo villagers claim polluted water from the Heinda Mine, in the Dawei District in southern Burma, has made their lives unbearable.

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