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October 7, 2009
A two-day meeting began on development of bilateral trade through direct banking facilities between Bangladesh and Burma in Dhaka yesterday,...
October 7, 2009
The first Burma Ethnic Nationalities Forum was held on 2-3 October 2009 in Toronto, Canada, according to a statement of the Burma Ethnic...
October 6, 2009
| Mungpi
In the wake of the announcement by the United States of its new Burma policy, Human Rights Watch on Monday urged Australia to review its policy...
October 6, 2009
| Nem Davies
Solar power is being used by many people in rural areas in Burma, where electricity is not available. Shops selling solar power plates in some...
October 6, 2009
Burma’s ruling military supremo Snr Gen Than Shwe, who was scheduled to pay a two-day visit to the Irrawaddy Delta, has postponed his trip to mid-...
October 6, 2009
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), one of the largest ethnic armed groups in Northern Burma is trying to work out a compromise formula with...
October 6, 2009
| Siddique Islam
Experts from Burma and Bangladesh initiated discussions in Dhaka on Monday on expansion of bilateral trade by establishing direct banking facilities...
October 5, 2009
Tension has escalated again on the Burma-Bangladesh border after Burma restarted the barbed wire fencing and mobilized its troops along the border on...
October 5, 2009
The non-ceasefire Shan State Army (SSA) “South” has said a quarrel at a party thrown by a Burmese Army Column Commander on October 1, ended in a...
October 5, 2009
In an unusual move the Yangon Mayor dropped into the Yangon Kachin Baptist Church, the largest ethnic Kachin church, yesterday soon after the...
October 5, 2009
| Usa Pichai
Authorities in Thailand are expediting the process of providing information about national verification for Burmese migrants, even as governors in...
October 3, 2009
| Mungpi
A group of Burma’s ethnic political organizations in exile – the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC) - has urged US Senator James Webb not to condemn...
October 3, 2009
| Mungpi
The US embassy in Rangoon has got in touch with lawyers to defend its detained citizen, Aung Kyaw Zaw, arrested on arrival in the former Burmese...
October 3, 2009
The New Mon State Party will hold a youth seminar, aimed at university-aged Mon men and women, to discuss Mon youths’ political opinions and views at...
October 3, 2009
Twenty Arakanese Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority of Burma, were pushed back into Burma from Sahapordip in Teknaf Upazila, while twenty four...