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March 27, 2014
| Mizzima
A National League for Democracy MP has complained about not being able to raise questions in parliament after her microphone was turned off twice...
March 27, 2014
| Mizzima
Myanmar has entered the most important period in its history, President U Thein Sein has said in a speech to parliament in which he backed...
March 26, 2014
| S.H.A.N
An independent consultant specializing in conflict, security and humanitarian affairs in Burma has warned that international NGOs coming into Burma...
March 26, 2014
| Mizzima
The Myanmar military must reform policies and practices that threaten the country’s civilians, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law...
March 26, 2014
| Mizzima
Japan has given 1.6 billion yen (about K15.68 billion) tothree United Nations agencies to support their activities in ethnic and border areas of...
March 26, 2014
| Mizzima
About 200 people from three wards in Yangon’s northeastern Thingangyun Township who say their land was seized by the military more than 20 years ago...
March 26, 2014
| Mizzima
Myanmar should scrap proposed restrictions on interfaith marriages, Human Rights Watch said on March 25, warning that the "blatant discrimination"...
March 26, 2014
| KIC
At March 24 night’s fire at Mae La Refugee Camp destroyed 19 houses and another 31 were dismantled to stop the flames spreading.
March 26, 2014
| S.H.A.N
The Burma Army arrested and tortured five villagers suspected of associating with the RCSS, on March 21, in Kyawkme township, northern Shan State.
March 25, 2014
| Mizzima
Constitutional reform is needed to end the isolation of the Tatmadaw from the people, the leader of the opposition National League for Democracy, Daw...
March 25, 2014
| Mizzima
Nearly 3,000 people marched in six townships throughout Myanmar in simultaneous protests held on March 23 to demand amendments to the constitution.
March 25, 2014
| Mizzima
About 100 people have begun a march of about 1,200kilometres (750 miles) from Yangon to the site of the controversial Myitsone Dam in Kachin State to...
March 25, 2014
| Mizzima
The international aid organisation Medicins Sans Frontiers says it has been encouraged by talks with the government on the possibility of re-opening...
March 25, 2014
| KIC
A fire broke out in Zone B Section 4 and 5 at Mae La Refugee Camp on the Thai Burma Border in Thailand’s Tak Province at March 24 around 9.30pm.
March 24, 2014
| S.H.A.N
Burma’s immigration offices in Shan State have closed ahead of the census as they are busy with census workshops, according to local sources.