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December 9, 2009
While the United Wa State Army (UWSA) is under fire by the international community over allegations of drug trafficking, officials in Panghsang have...
December 9, 2009
About 600 Burmese soldiers from the Military Operation Planning Bureau, or Sakhaka, 15 based in Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Arakan's capital Sittwe...
December 9, 2009
| Min Tuka, Mehmoa
The Burmese government’s Department of Transportation, known as Ka Nya Na, has begun issuing a new form of motorbike license, called the 17/ Ya, to...
December 9, 2009
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) inked an agreement to improve the living standards of...
December 9, 2009
A soldier on soldier killing erupted last weekend at a Burmese battalion based in Three Pagodas Pass (TPP), along the Thai-Burma border. The sergeant...
December 9, 2009
9 December 2009: In an interesting phenomenon consumption of alcohol in Thantlang Township, Chin state western Burma has come down making parents of...
December 9, 2009
The Burmese military junta thrives on a cycle of corruption, which has spread its tentacles to all the government's civil sectors as well, said...
December 9, 2009
| Par Reh
Twenty eight Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who had been hiding in the jungles for many years, in an effort to avoid the Burmese Army, fled to...
December 8, 2009
| Mungpi
The Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that the training course conducted by the Burmese military junta to prevent recruitment of children into the...
December 8, 2009
| Phanida
Detained Burmese born American, Nyi Nyi Aung (a.k.a) Kyaw Zaw Lwin, is on a hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment of prisoners by...
December 8, 2009
China believes any disagreement between Bangladesh and Burma over demarcation of sea boundaries "will be resolved", Bangladesh ruling-party Awami...
December 8, 2009
There is an impasse between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese junta on the Border Guard Force (BGF) issue since October, the...
December 8, 2009
| Nan Htoo San
A villager was killed and two people were injured when a landmine exploded under a passing vehicle in Taung Oo on December 3. The Burmese Army has...
December 8, 2009
| Min Tuka, Mehmoa
A break in the Kanbuak to Miang-Kalay gas pipeline on December 3th, in Mon State’s Thanphyuzayat Township, continues to leak natural gas out into the...
December 8, 2009
| Mungpi
Burmese activists in Denmark and Norway urged the European Union to reinforce its common position on Burma’s military rulers, with no special...