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August 31, 2009
An ‘Evening with Rohingya People’ was an event organized by the London based Burmese Rohingya community with the help of the Burma Campaign UK to...
August 31, 2009
Following three days of fierce fighting, from August 27 to 29, the bulk of the anti-Naypyitaw Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the...
August 31, 2009
The Arakan State veteran organization will hold an important meeting in Ann Town on 8 September to select a candidate to run in the 2010 election,...
August 31, 2009
The victims of a tornado that hit an Arakanese village have not yet received any relief aid from the government authority, even though many houses...
August 31, 2009
The Burmese Army’s Infantry Battalion 32 recruited five young people from the Thai-Burma border town of 'Three Pagoda" last week. Among the five...
August 28, 2009
Thousands of refugees on Friday continued fleeing to the Sino-Burma border as clashes between the Burmese Army and Kokang rebels entered the second...
August 28, 2009
United States is set to announce its new policy on Burma as the Obama administration is on the verge of completing its review, visiting Congress...
August 28, 2009
Hundreds of students of Delhi University’s Lady Shri Ram College for Women on Friday ran a distance of 3. 3 kilometres in a campaign to demand the...
August 28, 2009
In Mudon township Burmese government authorities are forcing the sale of physic nut plans to villagers despite the plant’s lack of value as a crop,...
August 28, 2009
An ally of the ethnic Kokang armed group, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) yesterday asked its troops to be on high alert in Kachin State and...
August 28, 2009
Economic deterioration and the consequent rise in unemployment in Burma have resulted in a sharp rise in thefts and petty burglaries in many places...
August 28, 2009
The United Wa State Army (UWSA), which has joined forces with its Kokang ally against the Burmese Army yesterday alleged a shell aimed at its...
August 27, 2009
The American author, Christina Fink has recently released a second edition of her book “Living Silence”. Fink has worked with Burmese communities for...
August 27, 2009
Burmese Army troops and ethnic Kokang soldiers were at each other’s throat today, three days after the headquarters of the rebels in Laogai was...
August 27, 2009
Many more refugees are fleeing to China in the wake of clashes between the Burmese and Kokang troops, which began since this morning, according to...

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