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June 4, 2013
| Mizzima
Hundreds of Rakhine Buddhists have fled Bangladesh to neighboring Myanmar in recent months, alleging that they were persecuted for their faith and...
June 4, 2013
| Mizzima
President Thein Sein vowed to tackle Myanmar’s severe poverty in a speech in Yangon on Sunday.
June 4, 2013
| Mizzima
Myanmar President Thein Sein will personally open the World Economic Forum on East Asia (WEF) on Wednesday when Myanmar hosts for the first time an...
June 4, 2013
| Mizzima
One Myanmar migrant worker has been killed and two injured in separate attacks by one or more gangs of Malaysian youths in the northern suburbs of...
June 4, 2013
| Mizzima
The EU has appointed Roland Kobia as its first ambassador to Myanmar. Kobia, a Belgian, currently heads the Azerbaijan delegation and will replace...
June 4, 2013
| KIC
More than 150 representatives and observers from 40 Karen organizations from inside Burma, along the Thai-Burma border and overseas who took part in...
June 4, 2013
| KIC
More than 150 representatives and observers from 40 Karen organizations from inside Burma, along the Thai-Burma border and overseas who took part in...
June 4, 2013
| KIC
More than 150 representatives from 40 different Karen organizations attended the 9th Karen National Unity Seminar held from May 27 to 31 in Karen...
June 3, 2013
| KIC
Colonel Ner Dah Mya, a son of General Saw Bo Mya, met and discussed with Burmese civil society groups in Sydney during a recent visit to Australia.
June 3, 2013
| IMNA
A protest in Paung Township against the Electric Power Committee and Village Tract Administration attracted over 100 people from 14 villages. The...
June 3, 2013
| Khonumthung
The first edition of the new monthly journal Khonumthung News reached newsstands last month. Over 1000 copies of the 40-page journal were distributed...
June 3, 2013
| Kalandan
The Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) and People in Need Foundation denounced both the new “two-child-policy” law, which only applies to...
June 1, 2013
| Narinjara
A three day long annual central committee meeting of Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP), which won 34 Parliamentary seats in 2010 general...
May 31, 2013
| Kalandan
A Rohingya fisherman has been missing since he capsized his boat in the Bay of Bengal on May 27, according to a relative of the fishermen who didn’t...
May 31, 2013
| KNG
Peace talks held in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina on Thursday ended with the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the government...