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March 23, 2013
| Mizzima
The United Nations, the US, the UK, and various other members of the international community have expressed concerns over the recent wave of...
March 23, 2013
| S.H.A.N
An ethnic conference called the Shan-Kayah Trust-building for Peace was attended by various groups both from the ethnic armed groups and the...
March 23, 2013
| Mizzima
Angry mobs took to the streets of Meiktila for a third day on Friday, AFP reported, as local security forces appear unable or unwilling to contain...
March 23, 2013
| KIC
Karen National Union officials in the Tenasserim Township, Southern Burma are concerned that a coalmine will pollute local waterways posing a health...
March 23, 2013
| KIC
An environmentalist advocate, the Love Salween Group, issued a statement yesterday condemning government officials for denying a request by villagers...
March 23, 2013
| Mizzima
Myanmar's parliament on Thursday approved the amended budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year that had been put forward by the Financial Commission.
March 23, 2013
| KIC
For the first time, Karen artists from all over Burma got together in Rangoon and held an art exhibition of painting and sculptures about Karen...
March 23, 2013
| Mizzima
Official WFP logoThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said it has welcomed a contribution which more than doubles Japan’s support for its...
March 23, 2013
| Mizzima
eu-logoThe EU should reinstate Myanmar's duty and quota free access to the EU market, said the European Parliament's International Trade Committee on...
March 23, 2013
| Mizzima
Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt called for “free speech” and for the government to be kept out of internet regulations during a speech to...
March 23, 2013
| KIC
Saw Kyaw Kwi, an Australian based Karen News reporter said protesters demonstrated in front of the Governor-General’s house in Canberra for two hours...
March 23, 2013
| KIC
More than 100 villagers and Kachin based civil society groups held a prayer service to stop the Myit Sone Dam project on the Irrawaddy River and for...
March 21, 2013
| KNG
Burma's military continued to attack Kachin Independence Army (KIA) posts in Kachin and northwestern Shan states over the last week. The small...
March 21, 2013
| KIC
A Karenni environmental group claims that the Burma government blockaded their attempt to join in a protest prayer against the damming of the Salween...
March 21, 2013
| Mizzima
Myanmar on Wednesday announced the abolition of its US dollar proxy currency, in the latest step towards economic normalisation as the impoverished...