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January 30, 2009
The police seized a packet of heroin from a container loaded on a ship at the Asia World Port Terminal in Rangoon on Saturday, according to an...
January 30, 2009
| Zarni
In the minutes of a leaked secret meeting, a leading military commander admitted that the Burmese armed forces are becoming more indisciplined and...
January 30, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
In a major development the minutes of a leaked secret meeting of Burma's Army Commanders said the leadership of the main opposition party – the...
January 30, 2009
District level authorities from the Karen National Union (KNU) have ordered Htay Company, owned by Major General Hla Htay Win, to halt logging in the...
January 30, 2009
Though the Government Technology Institute (GTI) was opened on December 15, 2008, the students are facing problems related to transportation as the...
January 30, 2009
Four boats with Rohingya boatpeople arrived and caught in Thailand from January 17, 19 and 26. They were intercepted off Surin Island in the Andaman...
January 28, 2009
| Mungpi
The Chin National Army, the armed wing of ethnic the Chin rebel group – the Chin National Front - on Wednesday vehemently denied accusations of...
January 28, 2009
| Solomon
Detained pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer said he was summoned to the attorney-general's office in Burma's new jungle capital,...
January 28, 2009
An army artillery camp is being constructed by the military junta in Buthidaung Township, in northern Arakan, near the Bangladesh border, aiming to...
January 28, 2009
A Burmese artillery battalion was recently shifted to northern Arakan from Burma proper as reinforcements on the western Burmese border, said a...
January 28, 2009
Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies, including the army and the police, have closed border points near Burma and India to prevent kidnappers from...
January 28, 2009
| Solomon
It will take at least four years for Cyclone Nargis affected people to recover despite the large sum of funds planned, according to the country head...
January 28, 2009
The Rohingya community in the United Kingdom staged two separate demonstrations in front of the Burmese and Thai embassies in London on January 26,...
January 28, 2009
A senior leader of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) said, the United Nations (UN) envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari should push the ruling...
January 27, 2009
The 60-kilometre passage between Burma's Shan State and Thailand's Chiangrai province as proposed by Saraburi Coal Mining, a subsidiary of Ital-Thai...