News
March 7, 2008
| IMNA
At about 5: 00 a.m. on March 3, troops of the Burmese Army's Infantry Battalion No. 31 on patrol suddenly shot at a couple who were tapping rubber...
March 7, 2008
| Mizzima news
With an eye to May’s referendum, the Burmese junta is distributing temporary identity cards to ceasefire groups, a Sino-Burma border-based analyst...
March 7, 2008
| Phanida
Chiang Mai – Domestic journals in Burma are not allowed to report the chilling multiple murders in Rangoon where five people were killed. Only two...
March 7, 2008
| Lawi Weng
The Burmese Army intelligence officers have been taking bribes from local teak traders in Three Pagoda Pass on the Thai-Burma border gate, said a...
March 7, 2008
| Narinjara News
Dhaka: Bangladesh has become the prime transit route for trafficking heroin to Europe from Southeast Asia, according to a report from the...
March 7, 2008
| Narinjara News
Sittwe: An Arakanese historian and author was arrested by police earlier this week in Sittwe and released on the condition that he must come to the...
March 7, 2008
| Narinjara News
Dhaka: The UNHCR Dhaka office has been issuing new identification cards valid for five years to Burmese urban refugees in Bangladesh since March 5,...
March 7, 2008
| Mizzima news
A consortium of human rights and Burmese activists in Indonesia have called on ASEAN, in the absence of widespread alterations, to reject the Burmese...
March 7, 2008
| Mizzima news
Burma is one of only five countries outside of sub-Saharan Africa to be strapped with the label of “critically weak,” according to a 2008 study.
March 7, 2008
| Kaladan news
Pletwa, Chin State : The Burma Army battalion No. 289 under the Western Command based in Inn Township has been forcing villagers into forced labor...
March 6, 2008
| Narinjara News
Taungup: A 10-member team of officials led by a managing director from the Labour Ministry arrived in Taungup in southern Arakan yesterday to...
March 6, 2008
| Narinjara News
Teknaf: The value of the Burmese kyat has increased recently in comparison to the Bangladesh taka on the border of the two countries, but cross-...
March 6, 2008
| Narinjara News
Seventy one Burmese and Bangladeshi nationals were rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy on Sunday when their machine boats began flooding at sea east of Sri...
March 6, 2008
| Mizzima news
The United Nations Special Envoy to Burma arrived this morning in Rangoon to face the daunting task of convincing Burma's generals to reform their "...
March 6, 2008
| Kaladan news
Kensington, Australia: Speakers at a seminar, held on March 5, said that the Rohingyas are both stateless and refugees. The seminar was on "Launch a...