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April 23, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
The Burmese military junta-backed civilian organization, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) in Chin state, has completed its...
April 23, 2009
The 39th anniversary of Earth Day today was marked by Burma's ethnic Kachins and environmentalists with solemnity and traditional Christian prayer...
April 21, 2009
| Zaw Gyi
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) has said that it has temporarily stopped its offensive on the Karen National Union's army camp. An officer...
April 21, 2009
About 200 trucks brimming over with timber from Burma's northern Kachin State are ready to move tonight to Tengchong in China's southwestern Yunnan...
April 21, 2009
| Nem Davies
Private advertising firms in Rangoon said, they are faced with severe losses as the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) Engineering Department (...
April 21, 2009
| Salai Pi Pi
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will provide another chance to Burma to reapply for financial assistance. “Burma is being...
April 21, 2009
Local environmentalists, up in arms against the Burmese military junta have accused it of destroying the ecology of Kachin State where its forests,...
April 21, 2009
Candidates of the Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA), in Chin State , Burma , are being backed financially as well as with manpower by...
April 21, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
A new report called “Holding Our Ground”, which was released today condemned Burma’s military junta’s dual policy of expanding militarization and...
April 20, 2009
| Mon Son
Students in Mon State lead a bandana campaign to protest rule by Burma’s military government during last week’s water festival. According to a...
April 20, 2009
| Daniel Pedersen
Over 2,000 Karen villagers straddling the Thai-Burma border are finding it increasingly difficult to survive, trapped in a war zone with a lack of...
April 20, 2009
| Hseng Khio Fah
A fire broke out in the United Wa State Army (UWSA)’s Southern Region Commander, Wei Hsuehkang’s petrol station and teak warehouse in Panghsang, on...
April 19, 2009
A well known Chinese tycoon, Lau Ying with business interests in northern Burma is resuming import of timber to China from Burma's northern Kachin...
April 17, 2009
| Usa Pichai
Even as the Thai Government maintains a state of emergency in Bangkok, a Thai political leader and media baron was attacked today. Sondhi Limthongkul...
April 17, 2009
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has held up her country's democratic experience as a guiding light for Burma's military regime, urging...