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July 23, 2009
A leader of Burma’s opposition party – National League for Democracy (NLD) – said the party’s leadership has reached a 'critical stage' as most...
July 23, 2009
Extortion in Rambree Township in Arakan State has been on the increase, particular extortion committed by the township chairman, said a retired...
July 23, 2009
The celestial event, the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century occurred on Wednesday inAsia. Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh poured out...
July 22, 2009
The Burmese military junta’s overt nuclear ambitions are out in the open, in a leaked document from the junta’s military establishment, which reveals...
July 22, 2009
The unabated recruitment of child soldiers into the Burmese Army has been exposed in a report released by the Thai-Burmese border based ‘Yoma 3’...
July 22, 2009
Hundreds of youths from rural areas in Lashio Township, northern Shan State, are being recruited by junta-backed local militia forces for the Burmese...
July 22, 2009
The Burmese military junta has instructed 25 companies owned by top business tycoons, close to the regime, to disburse agricultural loans to farmers...
July 22, 2009
Burma’s military rulers on Wednesday denied detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi a meeting with her legal team to discuss a draft of final...
July 22, 2009
Dr. Cynthia Maung, a medical doctor and humanitarian worker invited to attend a briefing by visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Bangkok...
July 22, 2009
Burma’s border security force, Nasaka headquartered in Maungdaw Township has been advancing money to villagers of the township forcibly in exchange...
July 22, 2009
The government public hospital in Lashio town in Burma's northeast Shan State is spilling over with child patients under the age of six suffering...
July 22, 2009
An administrative officer was dismissed from his post in the Maungdaw Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) office on the allegation that he...
July 22, 2009
The Township Peace and Development Council, (TPDC) chairman of Maungdaw Township has seized a Rohingya Muslim cemetery in the Township for use though...
July 22, 2009
To be elected, candidates running for office in the 2010 general elections on the Thai-Burma border will have to garner votes from the Wa, who were...
July 22, 2009
Despite the Indian government maintaining a discreet silence over the on going trial of detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, over a...

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