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January 7, 2010
| Phanida
Prison authorities foiled a plan by political prisoners in Myitkyina prison to observe Independence Day on January 4. Political prisoners, including...
January 7, 2010
The Burmese military regime has set up an opium factory in the Indo-Myanmar border area as of November 2009. “The opium factory has been built 30...
January 7, 2010
| Saw Myint Thein
The DKBA battalion No. 7 under brigade 999, based in KNU brigade 7 area recently ordered locals on a rotational basis to reconstruct an army camp. Lt...
January 7, 2010
| Hnaung Hlaning
Forestry experts have predicted that there will be massive deforestation leading to a desert like situation because premature trees are being felled...
January 7, 2010
| Zaw Gyi
Bridging Educational Access to Migrants (BEAM) has opened a higher grade school for Burmese migrants in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand on January 4...
January 7, 2010
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) funds have gone awry in Maungdaw Township in Northern Arakan State, Burma, according to a local elder on...
January 7, 2010
With an eye on votes in the forthcoming elections this year, the Burmese junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) organized a...
January 7, 2010
| Jorn
In an increasingly tense political climate, the Burmese government has ordered that Burmese text explaining Mon history be removed from signs...
January 6, 2010
A week-long Kachin cultural Manau festival kick started yesterday morning in Myitkyina, the capital of Burma’s northern Kachin State, amidst...
January 6, 2010
| Kon Ha Dae
The Burmese government department of transportation in Three Pagoda Pass Township, Mon State, has instated a new tax on 4 and 10 wheeled vehicle...
January 6, 2010
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Two Rohingya women were raped by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) on December 29, at about 2 am in Maungdaw Township,...
January 6, 2010
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Recently, the Burmese Army has stepped up harassment of Rohingya villagers of Maungdaw Township. The troops were brought to...
January 6, 2010
| Khaing Suu
The Burmese junta has begun taking a census and collecting personal details of retired government servants in the education sector in Sittwe and...
January 6, 2010
| Phanida
This year the Burmese Army is editing the ‘JingHpaw Mungdaw Nsen’ newspaper published annually in ethnic Kachin...
January 6, 2010
| Salai Han Thar San, Kayw Thein Kha
Essential and other commodity prices in Burma are rising after the military junta announced an increase in pay of government employees...