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December 23, 2009
Hundreds of Burma’s minority ethnic Kachin Christians are into four-day long celebrations of Christmas and the golden jubilee of the founding of...
December 22, 2009
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Eight Rohingyas, including women were detained by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) from border areas and were pushed back to Burma...
December 22, 2009
| Myint Maung
Five members of a political party were allegedly assaulted by Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) members on December 19, while...
December 22, 2009
Burmese military authorities have tasked two Muslim businessmen from Rangoon to mobilize the Muslim community in Maungdaw Township on the western...
December 22, 2009
The Immigration Department in Tiau village, Chin state western Burma on the Indo-Myanmar border trade road No. 2 will not be responsible for the loss...
December 22, 2009
| Mehm Oa, Mi Lyeh Htaw
Burmese government officials are forcing farmers in Mudon township to plant a second crop of paddy rice, in hopes of compensating for the...
December 21, 2009
The Burmese military junta is constructing a new Indo-Myanmar border road for developing Chin state, in western Burma. A stretch of 12 feet from...
December 21, 2009
| Man Aung
The Burmese military authorities have seized many traditional hand-dug oil wells owned by locals in Man Aung Township in Arakan State for the Asia...
December 21, 2009
The 11-day meeting to sound out members of the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’ at its Hsengkeow headquarters Hsipaw township, Shan State North,...
December 21, 2009
| Phanida
Burma’s Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal against her sentence, by a district court in August...
December 21, 2009
| Tin Soe
Kutupalong, Bangladesh: A refugee girl died and five were injured in a landslide which occurred yesterday noon in the Kutupalong unregistered...
December 21, 2009
Construction of the dam at the confluence of the Irrawaddy River, which is a tourist spot, was inaugurated today at noon in Burma’s northern Kachin...
December 19, 2009
| Zaw Gyi
About 5,000 workers in Saha Farm Co. Ltd. (99) poultry in Samueng Dow, Ratchaburi province, Thailand have gone on strike because of...
December 19, 2009
| Saw Thein Myint
The Burmese military junta has pinned the blame for the bomb explosion on Karen New Year’s Day celebrations in Pha Pun town in Karen State...
December 18, 2009
Buthidaung, Arakan State: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) distributed mosquito nets to poor villagers of Buthidaing Township...