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March 17, 2010
Burmese Prime Minister Lt. General Thein Sein on Tuesday visited Buthidaung, a key town in northern Arakan, but his tour is unrelated to the election...
March 17, 2010
Twelve Burmese nationals, including women and children, were arrested on Sunday night by Bangladesh Rifles when they were travelling to India through...
March 17, 2010
The United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) has sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon to pressure the State Peace and...
March 17, 2010
The Burmese Army in Kachin state detained eight soldiers of the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) in the midst of mounting tension as chances of a...
March 16, 2010
Pro-democracy activists in the Philippines, keen to see democracy being ushered into military ruled Burma, have set three conditions for the 2010...
March 16, 2010
The availability of the national identity card has become easy from this month with the immigration department of the Burmese military junta issuing...
March 16, 2010
Chittagong, Bangladesh: The first batch of Arakanese Rohingya boat-people reached Malaysian territorial waters in the second week of March 2010,...
March 16, 2010
Hundreds of men, women and children thronged the sand bank of Salween river in the boat-stop area of E-tu Hta temporary Karen Refugee Camp. They came...
March 16, 2010
A former Managing Director of the Myanmar Textile Industries, Ministry of Industry One, U Thein Maung, will contest the 2010 elections from a...
March 16, 2010
A government castor oil project, known as the General Than Shwe project to locals, has failed in Arakan State after many trees died from neglect,...
March 16, 2010
A 20-year-old student of Sittwe University in Arakan State was raped and killed by unknown assailants, said Ko Thu Ra, a third-year student from the...
March 16, 2010
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of the Kingdom of Thailand is on a three-day visit to Burma from 15 to 17 March at the invitation...
March 16, 2010
Thai police think the illegally made M79 grenade launcher parts seized in Ayutthaya on March 13 and more in the neighbouring Samut Prakan the next...
March 16, 2010
Several migrant workers are heading home from Thailand to southern Burma, according to local sources at the crossing of Three Pagodas Pass Thai Burma...
March 15, 2010
The United Wa State Army’s 9-point counter proposal for transforming into a Burmese Army controlled Border Guard Force (BGF) was shot down by...

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