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March 20, 2009
| HURFOM
Residents of at least eight villages in Karen state are being forced to provide food for soldiers from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), as...
March 20, 2009
Protestors in Twante Township dispersed at about 5 p.m. (local time), after officials of the Red Cross assured them that they would look into their...
March 20, 2009
U Tun Kyaw, Maungdaw: Burma’s border security forces, the Nasaka and police personnel deployed in the border areas of western Burma are being...
March 20, 2009
Maungdaw: A minimum of 11 Burmese Army battalions have been deployed along the Burmese border near Bangladesh to erect barbed-wire fences, said a...
March 20, 2009
One of the ethnic opposition’s foremost legal experts says one way to reduce ethnic tensions in Burma is to guarantee full individual rights to its...
March 20, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
The proposed barbed wire fencing along the Burma-Bangladesh border, could be the ruling military junta’s plan to curb the movement of Rohingya...
March 20, 2009
| Solomon
The Burmese Ambassador to the United Nations is spinning white lies at the Human Rights Council by denying the presence of political prisoners in...
March 20, 2009
Migrant workers traveling to Thailand are circumventing restrictions in southern Burma by purchasing fake local identity papers. Without...
March 19, 2009
| Par Reh
People, living between Salween and Poon Rivers, have returned to their villages and are staying there without permission from the Burmese Army. They...
March 19, 2009
Some Burmese women into jade business on the Sino-Burma border jade markets are doubling as sex workers for survival following the collapse of the...
March 19, 2009
The Indo-Myanmar money exchange market has crashed affecting Burmese currency from January 2009. It has caused difficulties for most traders in the...
March 19, 2009
| Daily Htet
Karenni refugees are expecting that with the arrival of France's Junior Human Rights Minister, Mrs. Rama Yade, support and help for Karenni refugee...
March 19, 2009
Although the jade market has been on the decline near the Sino-Burma border, the business of trafficking amphetamine pills is doing well in Tar...
March 18, 2009
| Ko Wild
Activists in Singapore tried to stage a protest on Wednesday against an orchid naming ceremony for Burmese Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein...
March 18, 2009
| Solomon
Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer has sent a letter of appeal to the Prime Minister General Thein Sein to review the house arrest...