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May 7, 2013
Rohingya farmers are suffering from water shortages for their summer paddy cultivation, said local elder who spoke with Kaladanpress on condition of...
May 6, 2013
The recent report that said Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SAA) seized 4 Burmese people who were selling photos around along...
May 6, 2013
Myanmar has delayed by five years its deadline to eliminate drug production within its borders, a senior official said Monday, as the impoverished...
May 6, 2013
Myanmar's largest city is on track to become a “mega city” by 2040, according to speakers at the Urban Development Conference in Yangon's Traders...
May 6, 2013
Myanmar President Thein Sein said on Sunday that the democratization of the nation was only two years old, and that reform processes were undertaken...
May 6, 2013
Representatives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday lauded the Myanmar government and encouraged it...
May 6, 2013
Local leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU) in Ler Mu Lah Township have warned that there is a risk of a division between the local people and...
May 6, 2013
Several people have been killed by heavy flooding in Shan State, with at least nine corpses recovered from a gold mine in Kalaw Township which...
May 6, 2013
We the undersigned organizations reject the 186-page official report dated 22 April 2013 of the Arakan Investigation Commission as follows: 1. The...
May 4, 2013
Guwahati, May 2: Burmese activists across the globe have claimed that the construction of Daewoo’s Shwe gas project, as well as CNPC’s Maday deep sea...
May 4, 2013
Land confiscation of property belonging to villagers by developers and government officials in Tenasserim Division has become a complicated issue for...
May 4, 2013
A census team tried to force Rohingya villagers in Aley Than Kyaw in southern Maungdaw to register as Bengali. The group consisting of immigration...
May 3, 2013
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) did not take part in the decision of the Nippon Foundation, the Japanese philanthropic organization,...
May 3, 2013
Washington, D.C.-- Acting to extend Burma's current national emergency status classification in the United States, President Barack Obama filed a...
May 3, 2013
Myanmar is on a knife-edge of hope and fear. The first signs of fragile freedom that have emerged over the last two years have given us hope. There...

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