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October 2, 2008
In the first ever instance of highlighting the lives of refugees, particularly Burmese, Malaysian rights campaigners have launched a new book...
October 1, 2008
The websites of Mizzima News, an independent Burmese news agency based in New Delhi, India, has been hacked with a Cross-site scripting causing the...
October 1, 2008
Burma's military government on Saturday released two more opposition members from detention as part of amnesty granted to 9002 prisoners across the...
October 1, 2008
A boy in southern Ye Township, Mon State, has been hospitalized after being shot by a captain of Infantry Battalion No. 299. The captain accused the...
October 1, 2008
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Burma's border security force, or Nasaka, released eight Bangladeshi fishermen on September 24 without any flag meeting between...
October 1, 2008
Despite international pressure and condemnation, the Burmese military junta is still avoiding taking action against rapists in Kachin State, northern...
September 30, 2008
For the first time Burma's state-run newspaper has issued a warning to avoid the use of potentially tainted milk as it can cause severe health damage...
September 30, 2008
The Burmese military junta's new Kachin State Commander Maj-Gen Soe Win of the Northern Command has ordered residents to pay the monthly electricity...
September 30, 2008
Veteran Burmese politician Thakhin Thein Pe, age 93, has reportedly been admitted to 'Asia Royal' hospital at about 9 p.m. on Monday as he was...
September 30, 2008
Speaking in New York before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win delivered a stern rebuke to the...
September 30, 2008
The body of a Burmese soldier, suspected to have been shot dead by smugglers, was found on September 26 in the forest near Leilet village in Falam...
September 30, 2008
The second most powerful leader in the Burmese military junta hierarchy, Senior General Maung Aye, will arrive in Bangladesh on October 7 on a three-...
September 30, 2008
Suffering from an unnamed fear on the 1st anniversary of the saffron revolution the Burmese military junta has ordered cyber cafes to close early in...
September 30, 2008
Rathedaung, Arakan State : A man was arrested by Nasaka , Burma 's security force while on his way home after praying in a mosque at about 9 pm on...
September 30, 2008
The Fayazee Welfare Foundation (FWF), a local NGO provided relief material to poor families at Nattaung Para of Teknaf, a border town of Bangladesh,...

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