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July 17, 2008
Sanctions by the US government have been pinching the Burmese military junta. Two shrimp product factories owned by relatives of Burmese military...
July 17, 2008
New Delhi – Lending a helping voice, 22 Burmese pop singers will soon release a music album to raise funds for cyclone victims.
July 17, 2008
New Delhi - The United Nations humanitarian chief, John Holmes, on Wednesday said he will visit cyclone-hit Burma again next week to reassess the...
July 17, 2008
New Delhi - Even as cyclone victims reel under the devastating impact of Nargis, the military rulers are lining their pockets from the aid funds...
July 17, 2008
Maungdaw, Arakan State: The World Food Program (WFP) has been distributing rice and edible oil among villagers of northern Maungdaw, Arakan State...
July 17, 2008
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Thirteen refugees were abducted by Nasaka, or Burma's border security force on July 16 when they were fishing in Naff River...
July 17, 2008
In a historic step taken by the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), the Mali stream (not Irrawaddy River) hydro-power project has been producing...
July 16, 2008
Rats multiplying after devouring bamboo flowers are attacking hillside farms and destroying crops in Chin state in western Burma.
July 16, 2008
Teknaf, Bangladesh: A Burmese refugee belonging to the unofficial Lada camp died of starvation yesterday. Due to incessant heavy rain over two weeks...
July 16, 2008
Chiang Mai – Eleven ethnic Padaungs from Mae Hong Song district, Northern Thailand are still missing.
July 16, 2008
New Delhi – The Burmese military junta has extended an invitation to Ibrahim Gambari, UN Special envoy to Burma , to visit the country in mid-August...
July 16, 2008
The number of people owning and driving motorcycles on the Thai-Burma has gone up since the beginning of this month after the Burmese regime started...
July 16, 2008
Seven members of a family were allegedly killed in Sora Pheku village, Phe Khon Township, southern Shan state after junta authorities found a 'no...
July 15, 2008
A bomb explosion in a bus traversing on the highway killed a man and injured one in Dike Oo Township yesterday morning.
July 15, 2008
Chiang Mai – In one of the bigger scandals that have rocked Burma , a secret and special tribunal in the country's notorious Insein prison on Monday...

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