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March 12, 2013
| KNG
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
| Mizzima
Cisco-logoUS communications giant Cisco has announced that it will collaborate with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to establish...
March 12, 2013
| Mizzima
More than 8,000 tons of rubber were exported from Myanmar in February, said rubber exporters.
March 11, 2013
| Mizzima
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
| KIC
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
| Mizzima
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
| Kaladan
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
| KNG
The Kachin National Organization (KNO), the largest exiled Kachin political organization, issued a statement last Friday that strongly condemned...
March 11, 2013
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Khonumthung
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
| Narinjara
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
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
| KIC
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...