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April 4, 2008
Rice prices are rising drastically, says a rice vendor in Three Pagoda Pass, on the Thai-Burma border.
April 4, 2008
China is making a mockery of its own rule of banning timber import from Northern Burma that it imposed in late 2005. It has gone back to procuring...
April 4, 2008
Paris, France: The Burmese military junta has come in for condemnation from the National Democratic Party for Human Rights (NDPHR-in exile) in Paris...
April 4, 2008
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Police officer Sub-inspector (SI) Masood Uddin Chowdhury of Teknaf police station filed cases against 50 to 60 Rohingyas...
April 4, 2008
Sittwe: Burma and India signed an agreement on Wednesday where India is to invest USD 130 million to develop a transport project in western Burma...
April 4, 2008
Chiang Mai – The Myanmar Muslim Organization and the Kachin National Organization (KNO) are urging the entire population of Burma to cast a 'NO' vote...
April 3, 2008
Teknaf, Bangladesh : Clashes broke out between the police and refugees in a Burmese refugee camp in Bangladesh yesterday at about 3 p.m. when...
April 3, 2008
Cox's Bazaar: The Bangladesh Rifles pushed back 53 Burmese nationals to Burma on Tuesday when they were entering Bangladesh territory on board...
April 3, 2008
Maungdaw: The arrest of Muslim leaders continues unabated. Three more Muslim leaders were arrested by the Burmese military junta authorities on...
April 3, 2008
Chiang Mai – The National League for Democracy (NLD) party today urged people to cast a 'NO' vote in the upcoming constitutional referendum,...
April 3, 2008
New Delhi – Western District Court in Rangoon sentenced solo protester Ohn Than to life imprisonment yesterday. Ohn Than was sentenced to life...
April 3, 2008
The voters' list will be announced a week before the referendum to approve the draft constitution in May. The announcement was made by the Burmese...
April 2, 2008
Chiang Mai – The national constitutional referendum convening commission will soon publish copies of Burma's 2008 draft constitution, according to a...
April 2, 2008
Chiang Mai – In yet another example of the junta's continuing brutal crackdown on dissidents, sources say Burmese authorities on Tuesday arrested two...
April 2, 2008
Taungup: Anti-referendum flyers have been spreading in some townships in southern Arakan but no one knows who is responsible for the distribution.

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