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March 28, 2013
Following severe violence and intimidation against reporters covering the inter-communal riots that erupted in Central Myanmar on March 20, the...
March 28, 2013
Anti-Muslim mob violence broke out on Wednesday afternoon in Minhla and Zigon villages in the Bago Region, local residents told Mizzima.
March 28, 2013
A top executive from one of the estimated 90 companies bidding for two telecoms licenses in Myanmar has called for the government to install the...
March 28, 2013
The European Burma Network, a collective of advocacy and human rights groups, has released a joint statement urging the European Union to delay...
March 27, 2013
The Border Consortium (TBC), an umbrella group of NGOs which supplies humanitarian relief to some 140,000 refugees at the Thai-Myanmar border, has...
March 27, 2013
Hundreds of Chinese owned trucks laden with timber have crossed from Kachin state into China over the past few weeks. Timber being transported to...
March 27, 2013
Two Burmese monks were arrested by the Bangladesh border security force, BGB, on Thursday at a border checkpoint located at Teknaf and Cox’sbazar...
March 27, 2013
The US Assistant Secretary for Conflict and Stabilization Operations Mr. Fredrick Barton attended a press conference in Loikaw for discussions on...
March 27, 2013
Khonumthung News Group will start publishing a monthly print newspaper in Burmese in May. The news group just received the green light from the...
March 27, 2013
The Ministry of Information announced on March 25 that in a second round of licensing eight more private daily newspapers have been granted...
March 27, 2013
Punj Lloyd Upstream Ltd, an Indian company which is building an extension of the Myanmar-China natural gas pipeline, has been accused of failing to...
March 27, 2013
Addressing more than 6,300 soldiers on Wednesday morning, Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing said that the military will continue...
March 26, 2013
Farmers in Karen State have been told to apply for land concession of their farmland that were either confiscated or were sold off by officials in...
March 26, 2013
Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) still haven’t released 3 Bangladeshi policemen and one civilian arrested several weeks ago, according to...
March 26, 2013
Following the murderous violence between Buddhist and Muslim communities in Meikhtila Town last week, a prominent Buddhist monk organization has...

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