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July 12, 2013
Malnutrition is the leading cause of deaths for 40 percent of disease-ridden children in Myanmar, says Union Minister Dr. Pe Thet Khin from the...
July 12, 2013
Min Thu Tha – Burma News International (BNI) objected to the new Printing and Publishing Enterprise Law (PPEL) that recently passed by Pyithu Hluttaw...
July 12, 2013
Rakhine State government Information Committee Chairman and Advocate General Hla Thein said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Yangon on July 9, “the...
July 11, 2013
A second ethnic nationalities conference, a follow-up to last year’s, has been planned for August, according to Saw Htoo Htoo Lay a resource person...
July 11, 2013
A statue is to be dedicated to the small building, on the Thai-Burmese border where Gen Gawn Zerng passed away, in a ceremony held in his honor...
July 11, 2013
Two Bangladeshi nationals have been detained by the Yangon police on Tuesday with suspicions of hiding identities.
July 11, 2013
Ten of the 42 child soldiers released by the tatmadaw – the Myanmar army – on Monday had reported their circumstances to the International Labor...
July 11, 2013
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) has announced that it will meet with the Myanmar government’s Union Peace Working Committee (UPWC)...
July 11, 2013
Leaders from the Karen National Union (KNU) and Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) says an insufficient knowledge of an action plan and...
July 11, 2013
Despite the ceasefire between the government and Karen armed groups landmines are still a massive risk to people in Karen state.
July 11, 2013
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) in its latest meeting held with its member organizations, ethnic armed groups and political groups...
July 11, 2013
Baptist and Roman Catholic Church groups in Kachin state's Bhamo Township combined their efforts to send malaria and diarrhea medicine to internally...
July 11, 2013
Padip Gam Awng (also Padip Gam Aung), the second highest ranking member of a Burmese government backed Kachin militia is behind the recent...
July 10, 2013
Five top Wa leaders arrived at Hwe Aw, opposite Chiangmai, last Friday, 5 July, to hold pre-talks with local United Wa State Army (UWSA) commanders...
July 10, 2013
The Bangladesh authority has detained 214 Bangladesh and 6 Myanmar nationals from a Malaysia-bound trawler in the Bay of Bengal, said a report...

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