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June 23, 2009
The Burmese Army is using forced labour and extorting money from villagers of Mogh Bill village, Buthidaung Township for construction of a new...
June 23, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
While urging the regime to conduct a fair trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday said the issue is an...
June 23, 2009
The Tactical Operation Commander (TOC) of the Burmese Army in Buthidaung Town seized a Rohingya cemetery in Aley Than Kyaw, Maungdaw Township on June...
June 23, 2009
| Phanida
The office in-charge of the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association (MWJA), Myint Lwin, committed suicide on Tuesday by jumping off the three-...
June 23, 2009
The Burmese military junta has earned a whopping net profit of over 1,000 million Kyat (an estimated over US $909,091) from its biggest auction ever...
June 23, 2009
A North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons and possibly en route to Burma was plying the waters off Shanghai on Tuesday morning, as...
June 23, 2009
| Solomon
Authorities in Thailand are allegedly encouraging ethnic Karen refugees recently arrived in the wake of fresh fighting in eastern Burma to return to...
June 23, 2009
Even as the Burmese military junta ignores the needs of the Chin people, the people of Chin state are engaged in construction of roads, with money...
June 23, 2009
| Phanida
Burma’s opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has thanked the thousands of people both at home and abroad who wished...
June 23, 2009
Bangladeshi police released 21 Arakanese protesters from custody yesterday after they spent 10 hours in the police lockup, said Ko Aung Naing, one of...
June 23, 2009
The fencing of the western Burma border with Bangladesh has been postponed by the Burmese military junta with the withdrawal of troops and riot...
June 22, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
Following the rejection of the junta’s proposal to transform into border security force by almost all the ceasefire groups, the regime is preparing...
June 22, 2009
| Kon Hadae
Over 800 villagers in Ye township were forced to work for three days repairing a road damaged by rain. On June 20, villagers were ordered by the Kaw-...
June 22, 2009
| Kon Hadae
Fishing boats in a Mon State village are being taxed 30,000 kyat each by the Burmese Army. The new tax was imposed a month ago when soldiers arrived...
June 22, 2009
| Mungpi
As the United States continues to track a North Korean frigate off the coast of China, analysts are calling for closer inspection of the vessel in...