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July 8, 2014
| KIC
Mae Tao Clinic and the Burma Children Medical Fund, on the Thai Burma border, welcomed the arrival of more than 140 wheelchairs, donated for young...
July 8, 2014
| S.H.A.N
In one of the Dirty Harry movie series, Clint Eastwood who plays him, tells Liam Neeson: “You want to play the game, love, you better know the rules.”
July 8, 2014
| Mizzima
The ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party has unveiled plans for a campaign to attract more workers and farmers as members.
July 8, 2014
| S.H.A.N
CHIANG MAI. Over a hundred villagers fled to Wan Wap Temple in Shan State’s Kehsi Township on July 6th due to mounting tension between Burma’s army...
July 7, 2014
| Kaladan Press
Maungdaw, Arakan State: On July 3rd, a soldier from the Burmese army’s Marrawaddy out-post severely tortured an elderly Rohingya man on a new...
July 7, 2014
| Kaladan Press
Maungdaw, Arakan State: On July 5th, the deputy director general of Burma’s Border Guard Police (BGP) held a meeting at BGP headquarters, inviting...
July 7, 2014
| S.H.A.N
June 11. Nationalities Brotherhood Federation (NBF) held a press conference opposing the proportional representation system at the Mao Kham...
July 7, 2014
| IMNA
On Tuesday, July 1st, government authorities began confiscating cosmetics containing dangerous chemicals sold at local markets, shops and stores in...
July 7, 2014
| Khonumthung
The administrator of Chin State’s Tuikin Village, U Yang Aung, has been suspended for misuse of power, according to villagers in Tuikin, which is...
July 7, 2014
| KIC
Fighting between Karen soldiers and Burma Army troops broke out in Papun District last week killing one and wounding one Burma Army soldier.
July 7, 2014
| KIC
A legal appeal by the human rights advocacy group to make public details of the Britain’s training of Burma’s military has succeeded.
July 7, 2014
| KIC
More than 20 Karen lawyers from all over Burma held an initial meeting in Rangoon last week to discuss the founding of a lawyer network that would...
July 7, 2014
| KIC
Mu Mu, 28, stirs thin soup inside her small, two-roomed bamboo house on the Thai-Burma border, and speaks of the day the Burma Army soldiers came to...
July 4, 2014
| Kaladan Press
Chittagong, Bangladesh: Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told parliament on July 2nd that her government is attempting to repatriate...
July 4, 2014
| IMNA
Lyon – Thailand’s military government, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), has announced that all migrant workers in Thailand are...