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August 6, 2009
Authorities in Mizoram state in northeast India arrested 50 Burmese nationals in capital Aizawl on July 30 and deported them to their country. Among...
August 6, 2009
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday reiterated his and the international community’s expectation from Burma’s ruling junta on...
August 6, 2009
Nearly ten internet cafes that have recently opened Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, are having challenges staying afloat due to weak profits,...
August 6, 2009
An USDA card is more useful than national ID cards when traveling around Arakan State, and many youths in Arakan State have joined the USDA in order...
August 5, 2009
Burma and Sri Lanka have agreed to step up bilateral cooperation ranging from curbing terrorism to going in for investments, trade and tourism during...
August 5, 2009
Environmentalists have appealed to the government of Thailand to revise its new energy plan that may have been ‘over estimated’, even as a new report...
August 5, 2009
Security has been tightened in Buthidaung prison by the Burmese Army as alleging some prisoners escaped from prison yesterday night, said an official...
August 5, 2009
Funds to the tune of Kyat 1300 lakhs has been amassed by Saka Kha 15, known as Military Operation Planning Bureau 15, based in Buthidaung, 80 miles...
August 5, 2009
A Sino-Burmese border trade zone was reopened on August 1, after being closed for seven long years. The Northern Command Commander Maj. Gen. Soe Win...
August 5, 2009
There was a gunfight amongst Burmese Army soldiers in the Tibual based military camp LIB 269 on August 2 in Falam township, northern Chin state Burma...
August 4, 2009
The United States on Monday reiterated its concern over military cooperation between Burma and North Korea, but did not elaborate on the kind of...
August 4, 2009
Twenty three Burmese sailors on board a Liberian-flagged ship, Annapurna, suddenly found themselves unemployed and stranded at a port in Auckland,...
August 4, 2009
After an announcement last week that markets in Rangoon were inadvertently selling fake eggs, consumers have reacted with suspicion, decreasing the...
August 4, 2009
There has been a quantum leap in child labour in Arakan State after the state started facing severe economic crisis, said a social worker in Sittwe...
August 4, 2009
On August 4th, the New Mon State Party (NMSP) announced that it decided to turn down the offer made by the Burmese State Peace and Development...

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