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August 14, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma has signed an agreement to conduct a study to build a natural gas-fired and combined cycle 100-megawatt power plant in Ahlone Township in...
August 14, 2012
| Mizzima
In the past five days, at least 13 people have been killed and seven injured in Kyauktaw, in Burma’s western Rakhine State.
August 14, 2012
| Mizzima
Twenty-four Burmese political parties say UN special rapporteur on human rights Tomas Quintana is biased in reporting on Burma’s ethnic conflicts and...
August 14, 2012
| Mizzima
During a Union-level peacemaking committee meeting in Naypyitaw on Sunday, Vice President Sai Mauk Kham said signing cease-fire deals with ethnic...
August 13, 2012
| Khonumthung
Network for Chin Civil Societies (NCCS) met to discuss solutions for human rights abuses in Hakha, the capital city of Chin state.
August 13, 2012
| KIC
Boat travelers on the Zami waterways in the Three Pagoda and Kyain Seikgyi Township region of in Karen State claim they are tax targets of various...
August 13, 2012
| Mizzima
As Burma is pressured to address the simmering Rhoingya issue and long-term ethnic peace, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President...
August 13, 2012
| Narinjara
Maungdaw authorities ordered strip malls closed along with street markets after news about a terrorist attack spread among the public.
August 13, 2012
| KIC
The President of the Karen National Union (KNU) Saw Tamla Baw, marked the 62nd anniversary of Martyrs’ Day with a speech to fellow KNU leaders,...
August 13, 2012
| IMNA
During a graduation ceremony held in the Thai-Burmese border town of Mae Sot, Open Universities Australia’s (OUA) academic coordinator for Burmese...
August 10, 2012
| Mizzima
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who is leading a delegation of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on a visit to Rakhine...
August 10, 2012
| Mizzima
Burma could be poised to reclaim its No. 1 position as the world’s top rice exporter, perhaps within three years, say officials, if all goes well...
August 10, 2012
| Mizzima
The Ahlone Dockyard Port will significantly expand with the construction of three new wharfs valued at more than US$ 110 million.
August 10, 2012
| KIC
The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) raised their concerns to the United Nations Special Human Rights Rapporteur, Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana that now is...
August 10, 2012
| KIC
Villagers in the Kawkareik Township area claim the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army and its political wing the Klohtoobaw Karen Organization is taxing...