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March 12, 2013
During Monday’s peace talks between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and Union Peace-making Working Committee in China, Lt. Gen. Myint Soe...
March 12, 2013
Cisco-logoUS communications giant Cisco has announced that it will collaborate with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to establish...
March 12, 2013
More than 8,000 tons of rubber were exported from Myanmar in February, said rubber exporters.
March 11, 2013
Myanmar's Ministry of Mines will begin tests for metal mineral exploration in Chin State, the country's most impoverished region, the minister...
March 11, 2013
Villagers in Tenasserim Division want the local Karen National Union to revoke permission given to a coalmine that villagers claim is polluting their...
March 11, 2013
Amidst growing rumors of party squabbles, the National League for Democracy (NLD) re-organized the central executive committee (CEC) with old and new...
March 11, 2013
Nasaka personnel forced villagers to attend a meeting recently where they laid down the law about what and what not they are allowed to do. Over 60...
March 11, 2013
The Kachin National Organization (KNO), the largest exiled Kachin political organization, issued a statement last Friday that strongly condemned...
March 11, 2013
President Thein Sein has been extended official invitations to visit Australia and New Zealand in the near future, state-run newspaper The New Light...
March 11, 2013
The Export-Import Bank of Korea could assist Incheon International Airport Corp (IIAC) to finance Yangon's new airport, which is expected to cost up...
March 9, 2013
A group of 88 generation students led by Min Ko Naing arrived in Teddim Town, northern Chin state to deliver lectures on Burma’s peace process to...
March 9, 2013
Authorities in Kyauk Pru district in Arakan have leased out a farm to businessmen for their own interests after the farms were confiscated from a...
March 8, 2013
Villagers in the Kwingalay claim gold mining companies have taken over lands that they used for cultivation. Villagers allege that a Burmese, Thai...
March 8, 2013
District police and officials arrested people working at a gambling facility in Myawaddy, Karen State, and then burnt the casino. The raid took place...
March 8, 2013
A new report – Losing Ground – by the Karen Human Rights Group documenting the land grabs by the Burma Army in Karen State was released this week in...

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