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October 29, 2009
Two Nobel Peace Laureates, Jody Williams and Mairead Maguire, on Thursday reiterated their call for the immediate release of fellow Burmese Nobel...
October 29, 2009
Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) Commander Major Thu Rin Zaw is collecting funds from villagers to build a road to connect Rwangyadaung (...
October 29, 2009
Burmese junta authorities in Chin state have refused to issue national identity cards for Indian tribes living in different parts of the state...
October 29, 2009
A local Arakanese mob attacked an office of the Aide Medicine International (AMI) in Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Arakan state’s capital Sittwe, on...
October 29, 2009
| Larry Jagan
A smug Burmese delegation, led by Prime Minister and General Thein Sein, are back home after attending the 15th annual ASEAN summit in Thailand,...
October 29, 2009
Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) Director Lt. Col Aung Gyi of Kyikan Pyin (Kawarbill) of Maungdaw Township called some religious leaders (...
October 29, 2009
The ‘National League for Democracy’ (NLD) has reissued party disciplinary regulations, circulated six years ago, since activities of some party...
October 28, 2009
Severe human rights violations and internal instability stares military-ruled Burma in the face, as the regime prepares to construct a dual gas and...
October 28, 2009
A group of 30-some villagers from Yinye village in Khawza Sub-Township, southern Mon State were held hostage by the Nai Bin Mon splinter on the night...
October 28, 2009
Retired soldiers of the erstwhile Communist Party of Burma (CPB) are being recruited by the ethnic Kachin ceasefire group, the New Democratic Army-...
October 28, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
A conference of the All India Youth Federation held from October 26 to 28 in New Delhi discussed threadbare Burma’s deteriorating human rights...
October 28, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
The National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS), commonly known as the Mongla group, is meeting junta commanders today, according...
October 28, 2009
The Burmese military junta authorities have compiled a list of people for fresh recruitments into the militia and the police force in southern and...
October 28, 2009
| Nem Davies
Politicians preparing to contest the 2010 general elections have called for freedom of the media before Burma goes to the polls. “We are not...
October 28, 2009
| Mae Ta Kae
Two women, 35 and 24 years old, were sitting face to face on a big rock near the shore of the Pon River washing their clothes. Meanwhile, children,...