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September 16, 2013
| Mizzima
Over 200000 oil well workers, oil well drilling workers, vendors and crude oil traders received notice letters to leave the Htan Gaing oilfield in...
September 16, 2013
| Mizzima
The Myanmar Tourist Guides Association told Mizzima that starting October 1, licensed tour guides will have to be paid a minimum of USD 35 per day as...
September 16, 2013
| Phophtaw
The Working Group for Ethnic Coordination (WGEC) and the Myanmar Peace Center’s (MPC) technical team met recently to discuss the signing of a...
September 16, 2013
| Mizzima
Alexandre Pebereau, CEO of France-based Orange International Carriers announced on September 10 that international roaming service will be enabled in...
September 14, 2013
| Mizzima
On September 12, the Myitkyina District Court sentenced Dayau Tang Gun to seven years in prison for a bomb explosion that killed ten people in his...
September 14, 2013
| Mizzima
The All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) will organize a forum to discuss issues related to drafting a national charter of students’ rights.
September 14, 2013
| Mizzima
On August 1, during a radio speech, President U Thein Sein said "It seems we are moving closer to the advent of a genuine federal union that we have...
September 14, 2013
| Narinjara
Burma has shown interest in having a security dialogues with Bangladesh, said a report published by The Independent on 9 September 2013.
September 14, 2013
| Mizzima
Aye Myint, the Labour Minister said on September 12 that Myanmar has had discussions with the Malaysian Minister of Home Affairs to release detained...
September 14, 2013
| KIC
Villagers angry with a Thai company for not paying them ‘promised compensation’ have stopped vehicles from delivering supplies to the $60 billion...
September 14, 2013
| Narinjara
Solo protester Ko Soe Wai, who received mentions in the media space with his unique demonstration against the security agency’s confiscation of...
September 13, 2013
| Mizzima
The technical teams of the government and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) will have preliminary talks from September 16-17 in Myitkyina,...
September 13, 2013
| Mizzima
The Myanmar Press Council (Interim) has announced that the President's donation will be used for development of media in the country and their...
September 13, 2013
| Mizzima
The imprisonment of a leading activist in Myanmar raises questions about the sincerity of the government’s reform agenda and whether natural resource...
September 13, 2013
| Phophtaw
Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) leaders revealed that they would not be signing a ceasefire agreement with the Myanmar government any time...