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February 1, 2010
Burma’s border security force - Nasaka of Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, has been using forced labour and collecting money from local villagers...
February 1, 2010
The Chairman of the Township Peace and Development Council, Kalaymyo, Sagaing Division in Western Burma issued an order early this month saying self-...
February 1, 2010
| Takaloo
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) has issued timeframes to Burma and Bangladesh for submission of their respective reports...
February 1, 2010
One day after the No. 6 leader of the Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) was shot dead by an unknown gunman, Maj Gen Kyaw Phyoe,...
February 1, 2010
The overseas Mon coordinating body has called for the release of a Mon Buddhist monk from a Burmese military interrogation centre in Yangon. Rev...
February 1, 2010
Yet another ethnic Kachin armed group in northeast Burma, the Kachin Defense Army (KDA) has had to toe the Burmese junta’s line and transform to a...
January 29, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
Mrs. Dolma Gyari, the Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament has urged the Burmese military junta to hold free and fair general elections...
January 29, 2010
For the first time this year, senior leaders of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese junta met in Myitkyina, the capital of...
January 29, 2010
| Usa Pichai
A guidebook to promote recognition of domestic worker rights was released Thursday at a press conference in Bangkok by the International...
January 29, 2010
Three days after Mongla’s number 6 leader Min Ein, was gunned down, the assassin, who was reported to have driven off in a white sedan, is still at...
January 29, 2010
| Salai Pi Pi
A United Nation’s report recently urged Burma to prioritize its agricultural sector in the fight against poverty, as it has considerable growth...
January 29, 2010
In Ye Township residents have reported receiving unexpected gifts of mosquito nets and medical advice from an area doctor, at a meeting in which...
January 29, 2010
| Myint Maung
The release of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi before the 2010 election along with the initiation of a dialogue for national...
January 29, 2010
Zungluai, the Chairman of the National League for Democracy, Falam Township in Chin state western Burma, died on January 16. He was suffering from...
January 28, 2010
| Phanida
Reporter Ngwe Soe Lin of the Norway-based opposition radio station Democratic Voice of Burma was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment yesterday by the...