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June 2, 2009
Political change in military-ruled Myanmar was "very much needed" for regional stability, said Kasit Piromya Foreign Minister of Thailand yesterday...
June 2, 2009
Ethnic Burmans, accounting for 120 families from Burma proper arrived in Maungdaw today to settle in four model villages among 29 such villages set...
June 2, 2009
The Chin National Front (CNF) has dispatched a seven-point statement to the US government on June 2, which includes the demand for the release of Daw...
June 2, 2009
| Celeste Chenard
Highly committed to the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi’s for many years, British-born actress and singer Jane Birkin, a resident of France who met Aung...
June 2, 2009
| Mungpi
Burma’s military rulers said on Sunday that pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial is in keeping with its law and is an internal affair,...
June 2, 2009
Many ethnic young Kachin men and male students in Mayan Village near Namti city in Burma's northern Kachin State were brutally assaulted and detained...
June 2, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
The Burmese military junta has imposed a fresh order on the United Wa State Army (UWSA)’s southern region along the Thai-Burma border following the...
June 2, 2009
Thai authorities stopped 31 Burmese timber trucks in Three Pagodas Pass on May 22 and seized both the timber and the trucks, according to residents...
June 1, 2009
| Myo Thein
The gold price in Rangoon has been unstable since Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial has started and it reached its highest point on 26th May. In the first...
June 1, 2009
The Burmese military junta authorities in Chin state are imparting military training to villagers of Paletwa Township from the first week of May...
June 1, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
The Burmese military junta is gearing up for another round of talks with the armed ceasefire group, the United Wa State Army (UWSA), after it...
June 1, 2009
| Takaloo
News of the deteriorating health of Burma's detained democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is causing concern among people around the country, said...
June 1, 2009
After an unidentified reconnaissance aircraft was spotted taking photographs of military bases, the Burmese Army in the Buthidaung cantonment has...
June 1, 2009
| Myo Thein
The 180-foot high Danoke pagoda in Dala Township, which was being renovated, collapsed on Saturday afternoon leaving many injured including naval...
June 1, 2009
Burmese Army officers have forcibly recruited Khami tribal youths, especially from Pelatwa and Buthidaung Township on the western Burma border to...