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September 18, 2009
The Rangoon divisional court on Friday heard arguments on an appeal against the verdict of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and scheduled...
September 18, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
Many village tracts in northern Shan State’s Tangyan Township, 83-miles south of Lashio, have been ordered to pay millions to support the junta-...
September 18, 2009
The Burmese army has been exploiting Arakanese fishermen by buying fish from them at prices below the market value, said a fisherman from the area...
September 18, 2009
A solo protest took place in Taungup in Arakan State on 31 August, but Burmese media in exile did not pick up the story due to a lack of...
September 18, 2009
| Mungpi
Unless the over 2,200 political prisoners languishing in prisons across the country are included among the prisoners being freed, the amnesty...
September 17, 2009
| Mungpi
Burma’s military junta announced amnesty for over 7,000 prisoners across the country on Thursday, a day after the Human Rights Watch condemned the...
September 17, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
Thai employers of Burmese migrants working in Thailand have been told yet again by Thai authorities to finish submitting the completed new...
September 17, 2009
| Myo Gyi
Authorities on the Sino-Burma border towns of Muse and Nam Hkam in northern Shan State, have started taking photographs of families for registration...
September 17, 2009
A high level delegation of three members of the American and Australian embassies visited a Burmese refugee camp, under the Cox’s Bazaar district of...
September 17, 2009
All state-run media in military-ruled Burma have praised the recent resignation of six high ranking officers of the Kachin Independence Organization...
September 17, 2009
Computer training has been introduced in Kutupalong and Nayapara Burmese refugee camps under the Cox’s Bazaar district of Bangladesh, from September...
September 17, 2009
| Mungpi
Detained for the past 11 years, Burmese rebels on Thursday told the City Sessions Court in India’s Kolkata city that they were falsely framed and...
September 17, 2009
| Mungpi
Burma’s state-run media on Thursday defended a decision barring pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from attending the hearing of her appeal...
September 17, 2009
The Burmese army has been collecting funds from locals for the recently formed people's militias in villages throughout Rathidaung Township, 20 miles...
September 16, 2009
| Ni Moe Myint
Industrial zones in Rangoon Division currently get electricity only for five hours per day as the Ministry of Energy has further reduced the power...