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July 10, 2008
New Delhi – Faced with an acute shortage of funds, the United Nations World Food Programme is hoping an international appeal would help it continue...
July 10, 2008
New Delhi - For the first time, Britain's Prince Charles on Wednesday met students, alumni and staff from Prospect Burma, an educational trust that...
July 10, 2008
Victims of Cyclone Nargis in a village in Nga Pu Taw Township are facing an uphill task in rebuilding their lives. The trail of destruction left many...
July 10, 2008
The sale of motorcycles has soared in Kalay Town , Sagaing division in Burma after the military junta announced granting of license to owners with...
July 9, 2008
Maungdaw, Arakan State : A villager in Maungdaw Township was sentenced to three months in jail by the Maungdaw court for felling timber for...
July 9, 2008
Maungdaw, Arakan State : Incessant heavy rain last two weeks in northern Arakan inundated most areas and destroyed paddy fields, vegetables, shrimp...
July 9, 2008
New Delhi - Leaders of the Group of Eight, meeting in Japan, on Tuesday urged the Burmese military junta to free all political prisoners and usher in...
July 9, 2008
New Delhi - The State Peace and Development Council's Information Ministry today denied reports circulating among Rangoon based journalists that a...
July 9, 2008
Kayan people, who wear copper rings around their necks and live in Hway Pu Kel village, Mae Hong Song district northern Thailand, have left their...
July 9, 2008
Chiang Mai - The Burmese Army's severe human rights violations have forced 165 Karenni refugees to flee to refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border...
July 9, 2008
Chiang Mai - Author and blogger Nay Phone Latt, in custody for six months, was charged again under the 1950 Emergency Provisions Act under section 5(...
July 9, 2008
In a surreptitious move the Burmese military junta's former Northern Command or Kachin state Commander Maj-Gen. Ohn Myint destroyed all documents...
July 9, 2008
Starved off energy needs, people in southern Burma favour electricity supply from private power distributing agencies given the delay in the...
July 9, 2008
New Delhi - Two months after the deadly Cyclone Nargis ripped across Burma's southwestern coastal divisions, more than 400 children are still...
July 9, 2008
New Delhi - In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, Burma's military rulers have assigned several private companies to undertake reconstruction work in...

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