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January 18, 2010
A Rangoon-based political party gearing up to contest the junta’s planned 2010 elections, on Monday expressed frustration over the delay in...
January 18, 2010
| Mehm oa, Tuka
Truck drivers who were previously able to make a living carrying passengers, now face a threat to their livelihood as they must pay increased fees at...
January 18, 2010
| Kyaw Thein Kha
A three-member team of American academicians led by Prof. Karl D. Jakson, Director General, Southeast Asia Studies, John Hopkins University, met a...
January 18, 2010
Chittagong, Bangladesh: Preparation for the three-day Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after hajj, is scheduled to start on...
January 18, 2010
| Phanida
Lawyers of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed optimism of her acquittal after the Supreme Court on Monday heard their final...
January 18, 2010
| Salai Pi Pi
Indian Home Secretary Gopal K. Pillai leaves today for Burma for bilateral secretary level talks commencing on Tuesday in the Burmese capital of...
January 18, 2010
| Min Thet, Myint Maung
The junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) has been intensifying organizational and outreach work in the greater Rangoon...
January 18, 2010
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Arakanese Rohingyas are living in an atmosphere of insecurity in the border town of Teknaf, Bangladesh after they were ordered to...
January 18, 2010
Twelve Bangladeshi pilgrims were sentenced to six months in prison in Burma last week for entering the country with fake Burmese ID cards, said a...
January 15, 2010
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Maungdaw police arrested five Arakanese Rohingyas for allegedly murdering two Natala villagers, who were hacked to death by...
January 15, 2010
Detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, for the first time in 2010, met with government liaison minister Aung Kyi at her...
January 15, 2010
| Khaing Suu
As the first female pilots in Burma, two women, after completing commercial pilot courses from Malaysia, have begun operating flights as co-pilots...
January 15, 2010
Sangbik, the former chairman of Thanlang Block Peace and Development Council (BPDC) was killed by five men at 7:15 pm on January 13, in Khua Fo...
January 15, 2010
| Myint Maung
The National League for Democracy (NLD), in its drive to expand party organization, has thus far established women’s groups in 22 townships across...
January 15, 2010
The cooked up charges against four ethnic Kachin cultural festival officials in Bhamo city in northern Kachin State was dropped by the Burmese junta...