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March 18, 2009
| Usa Pichai
The Thai Public Health Minister has said that narcotic drug users in Thailand seems to be dwindling, while the internet has opened up a new window...
March 18, 2009
| Mi Mon Son, Asah and Blai Mon
Student protests over electricity are meeting mixed results in Mon State, with the University quarter in Moulmein receiving power while the rest of...
March 18, 2009
The Burmese military junta authorities of Kalemyo, Sagaing Division, northwest Burma , have ordered shifting of the Taungphila grave yard before the...
March 18, 2009
At about 10 am this morning, a group of soldiers arrived in Naing Chaung village of Maungdaw Township and forcibly captured around 100 Rohingya...
March 18, 2009
Burmese traders and transporters on the western Burmese border are currently facing an increase in the number of tax collectors from multiple...
March 18, 2009
| Solomon
A Sino-Burma border based ethnic Kachin rebel group has declared it is ready to abandon armed struggle after the 2010 general elections, if the new...
March 18, 2009
| Hong Hakao
A soldier from an armed Karen cease-fire group remains unpunished after killing two people in an auto accident last week in Myawaddy Town. The...
March 18, 2009
| Kon Hadae, Blai Mon
One civilian was wounded in a clash with Karen rebels after the Burmese army forced passenger trucks to stay the night at their encampment. A Burmese...
March 18, 2009
Two rebels with sophisticated firearms from an Arakanese insurgent group, were arrested yesterday, in a forest near the Bangladesh-Burma border by...
March 18, 2009
| Takaloo
The UNHCR said on Thursday that it had decided to upgrade its program for Muslim minorities in Northern Arakan State in Burma, with immediate effect...
March 18, 2009
The Burmese military junta may soon increase the monthly salary of government employees, some regime employees said. They said that though there is...
March 18, 2009
Tension runs high along the Bangladesh-Burma borders as the Burma started erecting barbed wire fences unilaterally on its side of 200 km land borders...
March 18, 2009
Severe economic hardship in Burma followed by the global economic meltdown, have forced people in Kachin State, who rely on natural resources, to...
March 18, 2009
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded the Chinese company Dongfeng Motor Group Co. Ltd from the Government Pension fund – Global, for...
March 17, 2009
| Mungpi
The Japanese government has provided election training to Burmese officials, as the Southeast Asian Nation gears up for its general elections in 2010...