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October 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Thai police Friday charged two Myanmar men with murder and rape after the killing of two British tourists on a southern island last month, in a case...
October 3, 2014
| Mizzima
The All Burma Federation of Youth Unions and the All Burma Federation of Student Unions have joined forces in an effort to free activist Ma Phyu Hnin...
October 3, 2014
| Mizzima
The ‘Rakhine State Action Plan’ has been criticised by Human Rights Watch as a course of action that will only further segregate the community in...
October 3, 2014
| Mizzima
The Myanmar government should establish a small and medium enterprise agency, Mr Watanabe Hideo, chairman of the Japan Myanmar Association told a...
October 3, 2014
| Mizzima
Officials of the Myanmar government’s Union Peace-making Work Committee (UPWC) and leaders of armed ethnic groups claim the recent resumption of...
October 3, 2014
| Mizzima
A new body, the ‘Securities and Exchange Commission’ has been established by the Myanmar government to regulate the country’s securities exchanges,...
October 3, 2014
| KIC
Aung Naing was six years old when he moved to Nu Poe refugee camp in Thailand, leaving conflict-wracked Karen State, in Eastern Burma.
October 3, 2014
| KIC
The Karen Women’s Organisation has criticized the decision by the Karen National Union to suspend its membership from the United Nationalities...
October 3, 2014
| Khonumthung
A Chin Women’s Organization (CWO) with 30 members was established on 27 September 2014 at the western block in Mindat town.
October 3, 2014
| Khonumthung
Construction of a government primary school building has not been completed on time leading to a decrease in student numbers due to insufficient...
October 3, 2014
| Khonumthung
Chin state authorities stopped publication of The Hakha Post newspaper in Lai (Chin) language in Hakha, the Chin state capital, on 29 September. The...
October 3, 2014
| Translated by BNI
Government forces started an assault to seize and capture the Shan State Progressive Party Army (SSPP/SSA) base camp at Hta Pha Song at 5.40am on 2nd...
October 3, 2014
| Translated by BNI
The No.1 battalion commander of the Mon Peace and Defence Force, Major Nai Min Maung (aka Ko Toe) was arrested in Mawlamyine Township on 30th...
October 2, 2014
| Kaladan Press
The Burmese Border Guard Police (BGP) handed over 32 Bangladeshi released prisoners to the Bangladeshi Border Guard (BGB) in Maungdaw, Burma...
October 2, 2014
| Narinjara
As the people of Burma remembered the monk’s revolution across the country Sittwe, the Arakanese capital, also held a commemoration ceremony where 90...