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January 15, 2010
Eleven Arakanese youth detained by Burmese authorities were produced before the court in Insein Prison on Wednesday to face charges filed by the...
January 15, 2010
Officials of Nasaka, Burma's border security force, and Bangladesh Rifles, BDR, met in a frontier area on the border on Wednesday to discuss some...
January 15, 2010
| Hnaung Hlaing
Gaylo village, located in No.2 district in Karenni state, is silent and eerie because nobody is around. Like Gaylo village, other villages in Karenni...
January 14, 2010
| Kyaw Theinkha
Burma’s economic situation will come under the scanner, when international financial institutions that support economic development projects in the...
January 14, 2010
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: The Rohingya Driving Committee of Ukiya union in Cox’s Bazar district convened a protest meeting over Rohingya refugees in...
January 14, 2010
| Arkar
A villager in Chaungzone township has been arrested for potential connections to a monk arrested and torture last week by forces from the Burmese....
January 14, 2010
14 January 2010: There is no let up in the sufferings of the Chin people. The Mara armed group is now collecting money from Chin people, who are...
January 14, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San
A second woman is set to join the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of Burma’s main opposition party, National League for Democracy (NLD), as the...
January 14, 2010
Efforts by the Burmese authorities to suppress and clampdown on dissent is in full force after a young Buddhist Monk in Mon State came under...
January 13, 2010
| Phanida
There is palpable tension between the Inma village based Burmese Army battalion under LID 66 and a battalion of the Military Affairs Security (MAS)...
January 13, 2010
| Myint Maung
A township court in Burma’s former capital city of Rangoon on Wednesday sentenced three opposition party members to three years...
January 13, 2010
Over 17,000 refugees from Thailand were resettled in a third country in 2009 with support from the International Organization...
January 13, 2010
A signature campaign to stop China’s state-owned company, which is leading the construction of the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam in Kachin State, northern...
January 13, 2010
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) pushed back 17 Rohingyas including women and children to Burma on January 11, at about 5 pm after...
January 13, 2010
Unidentified activists spearheaded a two-day spray campaign against the ruling Burmese military junta last week, according to sources on the Muse-...