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May 14, 2013
International telecoms giants have been roped into a pageant as they jostle for two operating licenses in Myanmar ahead of final bids in June,...
May 14, 2013
A senior official from Burma's Ministry of Energy admitted to Reuters last week that the continued conflict in northern Burma between government...
May 14, 2013
One monk from Ahludawpay monastery and two Rohingyas from Buthidaung have been arrested by Maungdaw police for drug trafficking, according to a...
May 13, 2013
Fighting still continues between the Burma Army and its sister organization, the Shan State Army (SSA) South, on the Sino-Burmese border, but the SSA...
May 13, 2013
As a cyclone is formed in the Bay of Bengal that might hit the western Burma, the authority has shifted many refugee families from the camps in...
May 13, 2013
(Yangon, 13 May 2013): The residents of Kyauk Pru locality in Arakan province continue suffering from erratic electricity supply, even though the...
May 13, 2013
Myanmar could lose up to a third of its remaining natural forestry within the next two decades if current practices continue, according to a report...
May 13, 2013
Myanmar President Thein Sein announced on Sunday that the number of local and foreign investments has increased fivefold between 2011-212 and 2012-...
May 13, 2013
Myat Thin Aung, the chairman of Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone, said that he expects a new Minimum Wage Law to be passed in parliament in the first...
May 13, 2013
The continued conflict in northern Shan State will likely delay the first shipments of natural gas from the Bay of Bengal through the Shwe Gas...
May 13, 2013
US-based Human Rights Watch on Saturday called for the Myanmar authorities to drop charges against 10 persons who took part in a demonstration on...
May 13, 2013
Local people affected by the construction of Thailand’s and Burma’s Dawei-Kanchanaburi road link in Southern Burma have rejected to be involved in a...
May 13, 2013
The Burma government opened today, ‘Htee Kee’ in Southern Burma, a new border trading post between Thailand and Burma.
May 13, 2013
A new road that will connect Aley Than Kyaw to the Maungdaw highway cuts through Rohingyas farms, an affected villager said on condition of anonymity...
May 13, 2013
Southern Maungdaw Township authorities is resettling Rakhine on land previously occupied by displaced Rohingyas, said a schoolteacher on condition of...

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