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November 12, 2008
Bangladesh and Burma will continue with high-level parleys in the wake of the face-off over gas exploration by the latter in the Bay of Bengal. The...
November 11, 2008
The Burmese Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein will attend the second regional summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and...
November 11, 2008
A court in Rangoon's Insein prison on Tuesday gave fourteen student activists up to 65 years of jail time for their involvement in anti-government...
November 11, 2008
A Maungdaw Township court in Arakan State sentenced a Muslim community leader to over 13 years, and another eight community leaders to 10 years in...
November 11, 2008
Many battle weary Arakan-based battalions of the Burmese Army which had been sent to the eastern frontlines to wage war on ethnic revolutionary...
November 11, 2008
Chinese employees working for the China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) are back to work in the Myitsone hydropower project in Irrawaddy River...
November 11, 2008
Twelve Burmese nationals were pushed back to Burma by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on November 6, at around 2:00 pm, according to local people...
November 11, 2008
Burma and Bangladesh continued their troop build up along the border though tension has come down in the Bay of Bengal over Burma's attempt to...
November 11, 2008
The price of petrol and diesel in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State has dropped since early October in private shops in town, a source said...
November 11, 2008
U.S. President George Bush has made his nomination to fill the recently created post of Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma, a...
November 11, 2008
At least 14 prominent student activists in Burma, detained for their involvement in the September 2007 protests, have been sentenced to 65 years...
November 11, 2008
Village Peace and Development Council (PDC) officials in Mudon Township are collecting and updating family lists, say residents. Beginning last week...
November 11, 2008
Strange as it may sound owners of domestic animals in Chin State, Burma were earlier afraid of foxes as it used to carry away their live stock but...
November 11, 2008
The Burmese censor board has abruptly censored 'melamine free' advertisements for food items in weekly journals. As such the journals had to ink over...
November 11, 2008
Burma's ruling military junta has been forcing villagers from Min Bya Township in Arakan State, to work on construction of roads on the Rangoon-...