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January 19, 2013
| Mizzima
<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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
Burma opened the 19th Myanmar National Races’ Traditional Performing Arts Competition–2012 on Tuesday, which celebrates the country's traditional...
January 18, 2013
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
Pyaw Pyo villagers claim polluted water from the Heinda Mine, in the Dawei District in southern Burma, has made their lives unbearable.