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June 24, 2008
Ethnic prisoners in Insein prison are not allowed to talk in their mother tongue while meeting their family following the shooting of prisoners...
June 24, 2008
The Thai government last week handed out death sentences to five of the eight people imprisoned for the assassination of new Wat Wiwangkaram abbot,...
June 24, 2008
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The Bangladesh border security force, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), seized contraband Burmese goods worth Taka 1.9 million from a...
June 24, 2008
Maungdaw, Arakan State: A Rohingya yoyth was sentenced to five and-a-half years in prison by a Maungdaw court on June 13, on the orders of Burma's...
June 24, 2008
The Burmese ruling junta supremo Snr-Gen. Than Shwe is all praise for one of his protégés the Northern Command Commander Maj-Gen. Ohn Myint. He has...
June 24, 2008
The Three Pagodas Pass TPP township authorities in Karen State are allowing vehicles carrying timber after being bribed to cross the main gate. Local...
June 24, 2008
New Delhi - In an unusual and sudden move, Burma's military junta has reshuffled several key army officers and promoted young officers to the...
June 23, 2008
Tenasserim division occupied the first place in terms of the percentage of students passing high school in the 2007-2008 academic year in Burma ,...
June 23, 2008
Maungdaw, Arakan State : Over 1,000 acres of farmlands are to be confiscated in Maungdaw Township for Natala villagers to be invited to Arakan State...
June 21, 2008
The ruling Burmese military junta, always reluctant to bring its own to book, has not taken any action against four army officers, who had raped four...
June 21, 2008
Teknaf, Dum Dum Meah: Diarrhea has been spreading in the makeshift camp of Dum Dum Meah because of heavy rainfall and the changing weather. The...
June 20, 2008
The Burmese military junta authorities have beefed up security in front of the office of the opposition party – the National League for Democracy -...
June 20, 2008
Burma's ruling military junta has resumed its state-project of growing castor oil trees (Jatropha curcas) for biofuel production by using local...
June 20, 2008
Gold mining areas in Nam San Yang village, 50 miles southeast of Myitkyina, in Waingmaw Township has been temporarily halted by Burmese military...
June 20, 2008
Women-oriented organizations based on the border celebrated the 63rd birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, by painting her...

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