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April 25, 2013
| Mizzima
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
| Khonumthung
The Matupi Women’s Association (MWA) was formed in Matupi Town, the second capital of Chin state, Burma on 14 April.
April 25, 2013
| KIC
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
Myanmar President Thein Sein hosted Indonesian President Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Credentials Hall of the Presidential Palace on Tuesday...
April 24, 2013
| KIC
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
| Narinjara
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
| Narinjara
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
Speaking to Mizzima on behalf of state-run China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the Secretary to the Chinese Ambassador in Yangon, Xiong...