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2012-11-09
A Singaporean engineering firm, TEE International Ltd, announced on Friday, November 9, that its subsidiary company, TEE Resources Pte Ltd (TEER),...
2012-11-08
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and parliamentarians from ethnic minority parties are calling on the government to deploy more troops to...
2012-11-08
Tourism Transparency, an NGO that advocates responsible tourism to Burma, has published a booklet called “Dos & Don’ts for Tourists”—a guidebook...
2012-11-07
Some 2,000 ethnic Palaung villagers have been displaced from their homes in northern Shan State since March 2011, and some 1,000 still remain in...
2012-11-07
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Tuesday that it has begun distributing food for more than 27,000 people in townships...
2012-11-07
Burma will host its second forum on green economy and sustainable growth from November 13 to 15 in Naypyidaw where some 80 environmental experts from...
2012-11-07
Burmese President Thein Sein discussed the possibility of Burma signing an agreement against double tariff—effectively a preferential trading...
2012-11-07
Newly re-elected US President Barack Obama will attend an ASEAN summit in Cambodia on November 18, adding to speculation he may use the opportunity...
2012-11-07
The deadline for the government-appointed Investigation Commission to submit its report into the conflict in Rakhine State has been delayed from...
2012-11-06
A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced Shan drug lord Naw Kham and three of his subordinates to death for the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the...
2012-11-06
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says its medical teams are being harassed and prevented from helping victims of the sectarian violence that has...
2012-11-06
Burma’s President Thein Sein attended the plenary session of the ninth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Vientiane on Monday evening alongside other...
2012-11-06
The president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, said the EU has provided 700,000 Euros in set-up costs for the Myanmar Peace Centre (...
2012-11-06
On Friday, Burma’s Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (joint sitting of both houses of Parliament) passed the much anticipated Foreign Investment Law.
2012-11-05
Seven leaders of Burma’s 88 Generation Students group, including Mya Aye, arrived in Bangkok on Friday to meet with ethnic organizations and exile...