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November 2, 2009
A section of Burmese Army officials are encouraging and collecting tax on valuable timber being smuggled to northeast states of India from Sagaing...
November 2, 2009
Eleven people were injured in an explosion in Sarpyin Village of Taungup Township in Burma’s western Arakan state on Sunday evening, local residents...
November 2, 2009
Twenty Burmese refugees from Nayapara and Kutupalong camps in Bangladesh will fly to a third country soon as part of a resettlement programme, said a...
November 2, 2009
Burmese junta supremo Snr. Gen Than Shwe embarked on a visit to regions of the Irrawaddy delta, which had been devastated by Cyclone Nargis, sources...
October 30, 2009
| Myint Maung
The case relating to the Burmese born American, Nyi Nyi Aung (alias) Kyaw Zaw Lwin, has been transferred to Rangoon’s Southern district court by the...
October 30, 2009
| Mungpi
A Burmese refugee women’s group, Kumjing Storytellers, and a renowned detained poet, Saw Wei, have been named among the shortlisted finalists for the...
October 30, 2009
Pre-election campaign has been kick started by the Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP) led by former leaders of Kachin ceasefire groups' in Burma's...
October 30, 2009
| Mungpi
At least 75,000 people became refugees and more than half a million were internally displaced in eastern Burma in the past year, following increased...
October 30, 2009
A free school has been opened for Burmese children living in Mizoram, in Northeast India on October 26. It has been named ‘Moe Toah Star’ (Dawn Star...
October 30, 2009
Buthidaung, Arakan State: The Buthidaung Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) Chairman ordered that 820 houses in Buthidaung south be...
October 30, 2009
| Nan Htoo San
The KNU/KNLA Peace Council in a statement on October 20 made it abundantly clear that it will not accept the Burmese military junta’s proposal of...
October 29, 2009
The 21-member delegation of the National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS), based in Mongla, opposite China’s Daluo, was “...
October 29, 2009
| Mungpi
Even as detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi continues with her fact-finding mission on the consequences of western sanctions, she is...
October 29, 2009
Jade mining has resumed in full swing in Hpakant in Burma's Northern Kachin State a couple of weeks ago, after military tension between the Burmese...
October 29, 2009
A four-member high level delegation of ambassadors of America and Norway in Bangladesh visited Burmese refugee camps yesterday at about 10 am to...