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December 15, 2008
| Mungpi & Solomon
The United Wa State Army, an ethnic armed rebel group, which has a ceasefire agreement with Burma's military regime, said it is facing renewed...
December 15, 2008
The border road linking southern Chin state of Paletwa and the southern Mizoram town of Saiha has been reconstructed by the Chin people...
December 15, 2008
A Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC) Chairman of Maungdaw Township was arrested by Military Intelligence (Sarapa) on December 13, on the...
December 15, 2008
The Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) held its 4th Congress with party leaders, community representatives, academicians and religious...
December 15, 2008
Four engine boats with nearly 400 boat-people left for Malaysia from Burma and Bangladesh territorial waters in a month (30days), said a broker in...
December 15, 2008
Eight migrant workers were killed this morning when the SUV driven by a trafficker crashed as the driver attempted to evade Thai police in...
December 13, 2008
| Solomon
The Burmese military junta has rejected outright a petition by the lawyer of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, to review...
December 12, 2008
| Salai Pi Pi
With at least 250 elephants and ivory being smuggled out of Burma in a decade, the Southeast Asian nation faces a sharp come down in its pachyderm...
December 12, 2008
| Than Htike Oo
In what seems to be a surprise move the Burmese military junta authorities released a high-ranking member of the National league for Democracy from...
December 12, 2008
| Blai Mon
Burma’s military government has raised official gas prices, say sources in Mon State and Rangoon. According to Burma experts, the move is likely at...
December 12, 2008
Gas and diesel sales in Moulmein are being restricted in an attempt to prevent fires, say local sources. In an official meeting held earlier this...
December 12, 2008
There has been an increase in child trafficking on the Sino-Burma border in the past year under the Burmese military regime, the Kachin Women's group...
December 12, 2008
| Daily Htet
Even though Burma signed the UN's Human Rights Declaration 60 years ago, the ethnic regions of the country have not seen any improvement of human...
December 12, 2008
The Electricity Department of Kalemyo, Sagaing Division in Burma, has collected electric meter control bills from civilians who have meter boxes but...
December 12, 2008
| Zarni
Ashin Gambira, sentenced to a lengthy prison term for galvanizing the monk community into staging protests in Burma last September, was awarded the '...