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August 17, 2009
| Larry Jagan
The American senator, Jim Webb may have started something significant, but at this stage everything to do with his visit is still shrouded in mystery...
August 17, 2009
| Ni Moe Myint
Authorities will begin collecting five different bills including house rent, electricity and water bills, from government employees they were earlier...
August 17, 2009
It has become mandatory, from early last week, for Buddhist monks going out to accept food offerings from local devotees in Myitkyina, the capital of...
August 17, 2009
A Chinese businessman said this morning that he is planning to return to Kokang today to settle his unfinished business as he was assured of the...
August 17, 2009
Military training is being forcibly imparted to over 100 local youths by the Burmese Army at a football ground near the industrial zone at the edge...
August 17, 2009
| Phanida
Four ceasefire groups, which have an alliance and have flatly refused the junta’s proposal to transform into the Border Guard Force (BGF), are...
August 14, 2009
Aware that the major concern of ceasefire groups’ is closure of the border by China, the Burmese junta is goading the Laogai-based Kokang Army until...
August 14, 2009
| Mungpi
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday expressed “serious concern” over the conviction and sentencing of Burmese opposition leader Aung San...
August 13, 2009
China may well be backing Naypyitaw, when it comes to democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and the over 2,000 political prisoners in Burma, but it has...
August 13, 2009
| Myint Maung
The National League for Democracy (NLD) reacted sharply in a statement on Wednesday to the court’s sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in...
August 13, 2009
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), South and Southeast Asian representative, based in Bangkok, Kitty McKinsey has said it is...
August 13, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
In an attempt to promote Freedom of the Press and provide Burmese people with information, Radio Australia will launch a Burmese service programme...
August 13, 2009
More than 30 families from Chin state, western Burma, recently fled to neighboring Mizoram in northeast India because of the on-going famine. A...
August 13, 2009
Burma’s border security force, Nasaka’s surprise checks on villagers of Maungdaw Township have upset the villagers since they went to the village at...
August 13, 2009
The Chin National Front (CNF) in a statement on August 12 has condemned the sentencing of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months in...