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January 4, 2013
Pauk taw: Two Arakanese youths from Saitoke Village in Pauktaw Township in Arakan State were severely injured after they were attacked by a group of...
January 3, 2013
Karen National Union leaders left today from the Thai-Burma border to travel to Naypyidaw to meet with President Thein Sein to discuss war in ethnic...
January 3, 2013
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) issued a statement on January 1 calling for the Burmese government to order a halt to the Burmese...
January 3, 2013
Sittwe: Over Kyat 40 million worth materials that include wooden sleepers and rivets were stolen from the railway track in Sittwe, the Capital in...
January 3, 2013
Despite ceasefire agreements signed with the two Shan State Army (SSA) factions, forced labor appeared to have increased in 2012 in rural Shan State...
January 3, 2013
United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on the Burmese government to ensure that civilians’ lives were not endangered and...
January 3, 2013
Outbreaks of illnesses are spreading amongst refugees - mostly children - living in official and unofficial camps in Bangladesh. The most common...
January 3, 2013
The education sector in Burma is badly in need of funds; the country’s telecommunications infrastructure is one of the poorest in the world. But the...
January 3, 2013
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Thai government to immediately halt its plan to deport 73 ethnic Rohingyas back to Burma.
January 2, 2013
Burmese government forces on Wednesday continued their ground offensive against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) near the village of Nam Sang Yawng...
January 2, 2013
Burma’s President Thein Sein said the world was amazed by Burma’s program of democratic reforms in 2012, and called on the people of Burma to join...
January 2, 2013
Over 450 Muslims who fled by boat from Arakan state have arrived safely in Malaysia according to Rohingya leader Professor Abdul Hamid. But one...
January 2, 2013
A Muslim man was nabbed by the notorious Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) over allegations he was running a human trafficking ring in Maungdaw...
January 2, 2013
While Burma’s Kanbawza Bank (KBZ) says its electronic operations with VISA cards are so far running smoothly, rival Cooperative Bank (CB) says it has...
January 2, 2013
For only US $388 you can now fly return from Rangoon to Hong Kong.

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