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July 24, 2014
| Mizzima
There has been no increase in deportations of Myanmar refugees from camps in Thailand since restrictions began being enforced on their movement in...
July 24, 2014
| Mizzima
Sacked former religious affairs minister U Hsan Hsint has been charged with sedition as well as breach of trust, his lawyer said after a hearing at...
July 23, 2014
| IMNA
Rubber plantation owners from Yethakon Village and nearby villages in Mon State’s Thanbyuzayat Township were summoned to meet with a Karen armed...
July 23, 2014
| Mizzima
United Nations special rapporteur Ms Yanghee Lee discussed people displaced by conflict, land mines, land grabs and rape in talks with government...
July 23, 2014
| Mizzima
MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thai soldiers have begun a headcount of refugees in this sprawling border camp, raising...
July 22, 2014
| Mizzima
U Kyaw Hein, the day after his release from prison, said on July 17 that he intends to take legal action against a judge he alleges over exacted a...
July 22, 2014
| Mizzima
Prominent IT specialist and anti-hate speech activist Ko Nay Phone Latt has expressed concern that the government might ban the use of social media...
July 22, 2014
| Mizzima
The Union Election Commission has said it will no longer attend meetings of an Amyotha Hluttaw committee appointed to consider proportional...
July 22, 2014
| KIC
An alliance of Karen armed groups have got together to start a crackdown on the use of illicit drugs in Karen State.
July 22, 2014
| KIC
The Karen National Union (KNU) has chosen five leaders to represent it at the upcoming Ethnic Armed Organization Conference in the Kachin Town of...
July 22, 2014
| Narinjara
The Arakan National Party (ANP) will hold its first conference this September in Thandwe, a town in southern Arakan State. The time and place of the...
July 22, 2014
| S.H.A.N
CHIANG MAI— From July 20-21, fighting resumed between the Burma army’s 248th Battalion and Shan State Army-North’s (SSA-N) 72nd Brigade in Kehsi...
July 22, 2014
| Khonumthung
On July 24th, five of the Chin National Front Nation’s (CNF) top leaders will attend a meeting of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT),...
July 22, 2014
| Khonumthung
In a statement, the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) has called on the Burmese government to refrain from taking any action against individuals...
July 21, 2014
| Kaladan Press
Maungdaw, Arakan State: The UN’s new human rights envoy to Burma, Ms. Yanghee Lee, didn’t meet any Rohingya from Maungdaw District, according to a...