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April 25, 2013
Kyodo News Agency opened its first branch in Yangon on Tuesday after signing a memorandum of understanding with the News and Periodicals Enterprise...
April 25, 2013
The Matupi Women’s Association (MWA) was formed in Matupi Town, the second capital of Chin state, Burma on 14 April.
April 25, 2013
International rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Burma Campaign UK, have criticised the EU for lifting its sanctions on Burma, saying...
April 25, 2013
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) warned the European Union that it was too early to lift sanctions on Burma. The UNFC hit out at the...
April 25, 2013
Refugees from the Mae Ra Mo and Mae La Oon refugee camps, in Mae Hong Son District, on the Thai-Burma border, who are registered with the United...
April 24, 2013
The Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) has reported that Myanmar government troops stopped about 50 young men and women on a road in Tangyan...
April 24, 2013
Demetrios Marantis, Acting USTR Photo: ustr.govActing US Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis stops off in Myanmar on Wednesday as part of an...
April 24, 2013
The Union Assembly is likely to expose the identity of Dr. Seik Phwar, an anonymous online critic of the government, in late June when the...
April 24, 2013
Myanmar on Tuesday pardoned dozens of political prisoners, activists said, a day after the European Union agreed to end almost all sanctions against...
April 24, 2013
Myanmar President Thein Sein hosted Indonesian President Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Credentials Hall of the Presidential Palace on Tuesday...
April 24, 2013
Burma’s military accused of mass human rights abuses in Shan State as President Thein Sien is awarded peace prize and the EU economic sanctions.
April 23, 2013
Two Arakanese leaders from the Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) left for China on Saturday at an invitation made by the Chinese communist...
April 23, 2013
Ten villagers in Madae Island of Kyauk Pru in Arakan state have been charged by police as they are suspected of leading the recent demonstration...
April 23, 2013
EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to lift the last of the bloc's trade, economic and individual sanctions against Myanmar, hailing "a new chapter"...
April 23, 2013
Speaking to Mizzima on behalf of state-run China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the Secretary to the Chinese Ambassador in Yangon, Xiong...

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