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May 7, 2013
| Kaladan
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
| S.H.A.N
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
Representatives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday lauded the Myanmar government and encouraged it...
May 6, 2013
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Kaladan
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
| Narinjara
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
| KIC
Land confiscation of property belonging to villagers by developers and government officials in Tenasserim Division has become a complicated issue for...
May 4, 2013
| Kaladan
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
| S.H.A.N
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) did not take part in the decision of the Nippon Foundation, the Japanese philanthropic organization,...
May 3, 2013
| S.H.A.N
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
| Mizzima
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...