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July 4, 2013
| Mizzima
Blogger and activist Nay Phone Latt has called for an amendment to the 2004 Electronic Transactions Act that saw him sentenced to 15 years jail in...
July 4, 2013
| Narinjara
Farmers in a village of Arakan have shown their strength defying the order of the authority to plough in government owned farms. The simple reason...
July 4, 2013
| Mizzima
Relations have become tense in the Wa self-administered region as government troops have blocked Myanmar’s most heavily armed rebel group from...
July 4, 2013
| Mizzima
Iran is prepared to begin shipping humanitarian aid consignments to Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya population, it was announced this week.
July 4, 2013
| Mizzima
More than 30 Buddhist monks were told to pack their robes and leave their monastery in Kyaytee Township, Shan State, last week when two battalions of...
July 4, 2013
| Kaladan Press
Two brothers died after they played near a dam in Kutupalong unregistered refugee camp. Faroque, 5, and Jashim, 4, died on July 1 at around 1:30 am...
July 4, 2013
| Kaladan Press
After heavy rains washed out transportation routes Arakan state security forces in southern Maungdaw are using Rohingyas as forced labour to clean up...
July 4, 2013
| Kaladan Press
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni urged for Burmese authorities to resume the voluntary repatriation of Burmese refugees in Bangladesh during the...
July 3, 2013
| S.H.A.N
During attacks last week violating the ceasefire with the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N), the Burma Army shelled a Buddhist temple in central Shan...
July 3, 2013
| Narinjara
Burmese President Thein Sein is scheduled to visit Britain and French this month. The Burmese deputy information minister U Yee Htut informed the...
July 3, 2013
| Narinjara
Bangladesh continues to push back Burmese nationals and it is reported by the Bangla local newspapers. Quoting a battalion of Bangladesh border...
July 3, 2013
| KIC
The Karen National Union (KNU) has increased its efforts to destroy marijuana plantations and the selling of illegal drugs by villagers in northern...
July 3, 2013
| Mizzima
More than 100,000 internally displaced persons—victims of this past year’s communal violence in Rakhine State—are to be re-sheltered in temporary...
July 3, 2013
| Mizzima
An aerial view of Yangon's Insein Prison where many MI officers, arrested in purges in the early 2000s, were imprisoned.
July 3, 2013
| Mizzima
No one has been arrested following a spate of arson attacks on Kamman Muslim homes that took place on Sunday in Thandwe, Rakhine State, according to...