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November 27, 2012
UNOCHAThe United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has provided US $5.3 million in additional funding to provide urgent supplies to some...
November 26, 2012
Karen community based organizations from inside Burma want the Karen National Union leaders to put the people’s interest first in the ongoing ‘peace...
November 26, 2012
The Sittwe District Court ordered Dr. Tun Aung also known as Nurul Haque who has been arrested by the authorities on five charges relating to...
November 26, 2012
Burmese TV station SkyNet has bought full rights to screen English Premier League (EPL) football matches for three seasons, 2013-14, 2014-15, and...
November 26, 2012
Five senior members of the People Democracy Party (PDP) were arrested last month after the party publicly accused Kachin State Chief Minister Lajawn...
November 26, 2012
Trade between Burma and Bangladesh has resumed in Teknaf. The Bangladesh border point that is a subdivision of Cox’s Bazar District was closed for...
November 26, 2012
Electricity power lines that were originally supplying army camps, hotels, government workers’ homes and monasteries in Hakha have been re-routed in...
November 26, 2012
Marine rescuers in southern Vietnam on Thursday rescued five Burmese and four Indonesian sailors who had been attacked four days earlier by...
November 26, 2012
An Indian defense delegation led by Air Chief Marshal N.A. K. Browne begins a four-day visit to Burma on Monday, November 26, when they will meet...
November 26, 2012
Burma’s opposition leader and chairperson of the Lower House’s Committee for the Rule of Law and Tranquility, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Sunday spoke out...
November 26, 2012
Another Rohingya youth was has been arrested by the Burma army last week in Maungdaw Town over allegations that he was involved in sectarian violence...
November 26, 2012
Matupi Township cattle farmers say they are being extorted by Burma army soldiers.
November 25, 2012
The police in Sittwe, the capital in Arakan State, have further extended the remand of six Arakanese men who have been arrested from nearby Mrauk-U...
November 23, 2012
An Arizona congressman has stated that the Burma army has committed human rights violations against the ethnic Kachin.
November 23, 2012
In the recent President’s amnesty, 65 prisoners were granted their freedom, including a Karen lawyer who had been charged for being disrespectful to...

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