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August 28, 2014
Taiwan has honoured tens of thousands of Chinese Nationalist soldiers killed in Myanmar during World War II.
August 27, 2014
In a speech delivered at the celebration marking the formation of Border Guard Force, a militia group under the control of the Burma Army, Colonel...
August 27, 2014
The British environmental NGO Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has been cooperating with the Burmese subsidiary of China Power Investment (CPI)—...
August 27, 2014
The Ye Social Society (YSS) has organized a movement to collect signatures from individuals opposed to the construction of a coal-fired power plant...
August 27, 2014
A team of Myanmar divers claims to have discovered a legendary bell in the murky depths of the Yangon River -- with the help of dragon spirits -- in...
August 27, 2014
Flooding in Yangon cannot be stopped despite the millions of kyat spent on measures to tackle the issue, said U Hla Myint, the mayor of Yangon.
August 27, 2014
Myanmar needs a moral revolution if it is to achieve real democracy, says National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
August 26, 2014
In a recent meeting with the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society’s Farmers’ Affairs Committee, many farmers from Mon State’s Ye Township expressed...
August 26, 2014
The family of a Burmese migrant worker killed in a boiler explosion at a cloth-dying factory in Samut Prakan, Thailand on August 17th will be...
August 26, 2014
Bangladesh Coast Guard members seized 200,000 yaba tablets worth about 10 million taka from the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong City on August 23rd,...
August 26, 2014
Arakan State’s government will return over 13 billion kyat (1 USD= 1000 kyat) to Burma’s union government because the state failed to use the money...
August 26, 2014
The level of beer consumption in Myanmar is twice theamount the country currently legally brews, said U Thein Tun, a partner in the new Carlsberg...
August 26, 2014
About 100 rickshaw drivers from Hlaingtharyar Township, Yangon gathered at the old Kyaikkasan racecourse on August 24 to protest against what they...
August 26, 2014
The Kachin conflict, now in its third year, has left tens-of-thousand of displaced civilians without adequate access to health care. A community-...
August 25, 2014
The Mon State government should provide an official, public explanation for its 1,000 million kyat budget discrepancy during the 2014-2015 fiscal...

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