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July 13, 2009
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will brief the Security Council on his two-day visit to military-ruled Burma on Monday, according to his...
July 13, 2009
Burma’s authorities have confirmed detecting the second case of type A/H1N1 influenza in a 20-year old man in the country’s former capital city of...
July 13, 2009
After failing to make major ceasefire groups led by the Wa to fall in line with the junta’s border security force proposal, Burma’s generals are...
July 13, 2009
Burmese authorities have temporarily stopped the border fence project in western Burma due to heavy rains, after 40 miles of the fence have been...
July 10, 2009
The trial of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was adjourned till July 17 by the special court in Rangoon’s Insein prison on Friday, even as...
July 10, 2009
A number of children under 12 years of age have died from dengue in Kalemyo, Sagaing division western Burma. Reports available suggest that though...
July 10, 2009
| Kon Chan
Another carrier of the flu virus H1N1, commonly known as ‘Swine Flu’, has been detected in Rangoon, and officially announced by the Burmese...
July 10, 2009
Forty nine Rohingya ethnic people from Burma were pushed back by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) during the first week of July, according to BDR sources...
July 10, 2009
Leaders of the biggest churches in Myitkyina, Kachin State were summoned by the Burmese ruling junta's Northern Regional Commander Brig-Gen Soe Win...
July 10, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
The leader of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), Burma’s second largest winning party in the 1990 elections, Khun Htun Oo, 66, has been...
July 9, 2009
Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjejiva proposes to visit neighbouring military-ruled Burma later this month, sources in the Thai Ministry of...
July 9, 2009
| Tun Kyaw
Five villagers on the Indo-Burma border are suspected to be suffering from Swine Flu. The five are from Maratewa, of Paletwa sub-division in Chin...
July 9, 2009
| Asah
A bridge that is crucial for shipments throughout Karen state, has recently deteriorated to the point that traffic has been reduced, and trucks must...
July 9, 2009
Wei Xuegang, wanted in Thailand and the US on drug charges, has decided to give up his newly constructed maximum security mansion west of the Wa...
July 9, 2009
Immigration Department officials along with Burma’s border security force (Nasaka ) will demolish some houses of the Rohingya following an order...