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December 3, 2009
People in western Burma’s Chin state are in dire straits, facing chronic food shortage even as they suffer rights violation by the Burmese military...
December 3, 2009
Starting late November in to early December, residents and students in Moulmein, the capital city of Mon State, have reported little to no...
December 3, 2009
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced that Ibrahim Gambari would stop being the special envoy to military-ruled Burma...
December 2, 2009
Villagers in Lamine Sub Township are forced to carry stones for construction project on a Burmese army battalion head quarters. Last week villagers...
December 2, 2009
Students who have learned about undisclosed plans by Burmese government to dam the Salween river, have made shirts and handkerchiefs bearing phrases...
December 2, 2009
The Netherlands Foreign Ministry has said Minister Verhagen on Monday talked to Burmese academic Thant Myint-U over the international community’s...
December 2, 2009
Burma’s detained democracy icon and Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been listed among the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2009 by the ‘Foreign...
December 2, 2009
Seven Chinese loggers were secretly put in a prison cell for a night after their belongings were seized by Burmese policemen in a partially...
December 2, 2009
The Burmese military junta is issuing Temporary Registration Cards (TRC), which is called the White card to Arakanese Rohingya in Maungdaw yesterday...
December 1, 2009
Hundreds of people in Mon state continue to suffer from HIV-AIDS in Mon State, but go untreated. According to organizations that have worked to help...
December 1, 2009
Burmese women in India’s capital New Delhi on Monday joined women from India, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh in a celebration to...
December 1, 2009
HIV infection is on the rise among people in the country's northern border with China's Yunnan province because of sexual promiscuity and drugs,...
December 1, 2009
The Sri Lankan Navy has rescued 12 Burmese fishermen from two fishing boats adrift in deep sea of Sri Lanka’s eastern coast. A Sri Lankan Naval...
December 1, 2009
A Burmese police Captain who was in charge of a checkpoint in Ye Township has been reassigned, and security has been tightened, after the Chairman of...
November 30, 2009
Campaigning for the 2010 general elections in Burma seems to have begun in earnest from the military junta’s side with the Deputy Minister of Power...

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