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July 28, 2014
Maungdaw, Arakan State: A clash between police and villagers occurred yesterday in northern Maungdaw Township after police officers forcibly took...
July 28, 2014
Maungdaw, Arakan state: Several villagers were injured by Hluntin (riot police) in northern Maungdaw Township on July 22nd because they refused to...
July 28, 2014
China's ambassador to Burma, Yang Houlan, has denied a recent news report indicating that a planned train line running from Yunnan to Burma's Rakhine...
July 28, 2014
An insatiable demand in China for furniture made from rosewood could result in the trees being logged to extinction in Myanmar within three years,...
July 28, 2014
Medecins Sans Frontieres has expressed cautious optimism about its invitation to resume operations in Rakhine State and hoped to begin work soon...
July 28, 2014
Myanmar's plans for the future of Rakhine State could result in the "permanent segregation" of its Buddhist and Muslim communities, a United Nations...
July 25, 2014
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Ten Rohingyas were arrested and pushed back into Burma by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on July 22nd, according to a local from...
July 25, 2014
Senior representatives from 16 of Burma's armed ethnic groups this week arrived in Laiza, the Kachin Independence Organization's (KIO) de facto...
July 25, 2014
The Pyithu Hluttaw has approved a draft bill submitted by its National Races Affairs and Peace Making Committee that provides for the creation of a...
July 25, 2014
A group of Myanmar workers who said they endured "atrocious" working conditions at two garment factories in China have returned home and been...
July 25, 2014
Charges have been brought against three people accused of involvement in a fabricated rape claim that sparked three days of communal rioting in...
July 25, 2014
Ooredoo SIM cards will go on sale in the third week of August, a spokesperson for the telecoms firm told Mizzima on July 23.
July 25, 2014
In an unexpected move, the Rakhine State Government has invited an international branch of the international medical aid group, Medicins Sans...
July 24, 2014
The Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) will join the upcoming Third Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAO) conference in the...
July 24, 2014
Starting this August, Mon State’s edition of the state-run newspaper Myanma Alinn will include a weekly section written in Mon and other ethnic...

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