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September 18, 2008
Teknaf, Bangladesh: A Burmese unregistered refugee woman was gang raped in front of her child on September 16 at around 9: 30 pm when she was...
September 18, 2008
Students in northern Burma marked the 20th anniversary of the military coup in Burma today with a poster demonstration against the ruling junta also...
September 18, 2008
On the eve of the first anniversary of the week-long Saffron Revolution, the websites of three leading Burmese news agencies in exile have come under...
September 18, 2008
The Royal Thai police raided a garment factory in Sankhalaburi, Thailand and arrested 50 Burmese migrant workers on September 17. Those arrested hold...
September 17, 2008
| Zarni
The websites of three Burmese news agencies in exile – the Democratic Voice of Burma, The Irrawaddy and the New Era Journal – almost simultaneously...
September 17, 2008
The price of salt remains up to 300 percent higher from rates prior to Cyclone Nargis, which destroyed over 60 percent of the salt industry in Burma'...
September 17, 2008
Thieves broke into a government hospital at Three Pagoda Pass (TPP) Town, Karen State after midnight yesterday...
September 17, 2008
Thieves broke into a government hospital at Three Pagoda Pass (TPP) Town, Karen State after midnight yesterday...
September 17, 2008
In a rare instance a policeman was thrashed by locals early this month in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in northern Burma while the police...
September 17, 2008
For the seventh year running, Burma has been labeled as having "failed demonstrably" in its efforts to combat illicit narcotics, according to the...
September 17, 2008
Akyab, Arakan State: An army vehicle hit a mother and her son while they were walking along the roadside near Kathey quarter of Akyab yesterday at...
September 17, 2008
| Phanida
Burmese military junta authorities on Monday released 70 year old Tin Tin Win, mother of a student activist, after detaining her for four days...
September 17, 2008
Subscribers of landline telephones have been told by the junta to pay the cost of changing phone numbers in Myitkyina, capital of Burma's northern...
September 17, 2008
| Hseng Khio Fah
To escape relentless persecution and human rights abuse, including forced labour by the Burmese Army villagers in Southern Shan State are fleeing to...
September 16, 2008
| Zarni
Karen rebels have rubbished the allegation of the Burmese junta's state-run newspaper today where the Karen National Union has been blamed for the...