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January 20, 2009
Hoping for better sales of Burmese Hpakant jade in the pre-Chinese New Year, over 1000 Burmese jade merchants, mainly ethnic Kachins in northern...
January 20, 2009
Transportation costs are still high on the Indo-Myanmar border trade no. 2. Traders said vehicle fares and transportation charges are still high on...
January 20, 2009
Thailand's Navy left about 500 Rohingya refugees to die in mid-ocean, after seizing them from the Thai coast and dragging them out to the ocean...
January 19, 2009
People in Arakan are firm in their belief that the 2010 general elections will be no different from the 2008 May referendum and that the Burmese...
January 19, 2009
Ambushes staged by the Shan State Army (SSA) South on Burmese Army units on their opium taxing expeditions resulted in the recent military...
January 16, 2009
| Hong Gakao, Mi Kyae Goe, and Blai Mon
Pro-regime groups in Mon State are being ordered to prepare for the upcoming 2010 election, though groups that do not support the government continue...
January 16, 2009
Thailand should stop arresting and pushing back refugees and migrants who are illegally entering its waters, a United States-based refugee rights...
January 16, 2009
Over 300 rice mill workers, most of them women have lost their jobs in Bangladesh, as many traders are importing rice from Burma at cheaper prices,...
January 16, 2009
| Daniel Pedersen
The Karen National Liberation Army's Special Battalion 103 is being reinforced with troops of the KNLA's Sixth Brigade's 201st Battalion south of...
January 16, 2009
The United States has frozen assets of two Burmese businessmen and their companies for aiding the military rulers of the country, which is...
January 16, 2009
The Burmese military junta has destroyed Arakanese business ventures employing many tactics aiming to keep Arakan state underdeveloped, said a shrimp...
January 16, 2009
Bangladesh's newly elected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday expressed her desire to solve maritime boundary disputes with neighbouring...
January 16, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
A villager in Selan sub-township, Muse township, northern Shan State was arrested after he was found carrying a copy of SHAN's monthly Independence...
January 16, 2009
| Kon Hadae
At least 4 villages are being forced to pay high taxes to an armed Mon rebel group in Kalein Aung Sub-township, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division...
January 16, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
Burma in 2008 was one of the worse violators of Human Rights, when its ruling junta refused assistance to its citizens, faced with severe...