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June 14, 2012
| Mizzima
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said Burma resembles other countries that have shed dictatorships, in a speech at the International Labour...
June 14, 2012
| Khonumthung
Paletwa Hospital in Chin state is facing a shortage of doctors and hospital equipment affecting their abilities to treat patients.
June 14, 2012
| S.H.A.N
The Shan State Progress Party / Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), better known as SSA North, to differentiate it from the SSA South, whose official name is...
June 14, 2012
| KIC
The Karen People’s Forum has demanded the Burma government and the Karen National Union suspend all mega development projects in Karen State during...
June 13, 2012
| Mizzima
The world economic decline has caused the value of Burma’s clothing export sector to drop around 30 per cent since 2008, according to the Myanmar...
June 13, 2012
| S.H.A.N
The 16 Shan CBOs that came out in force yesterday at the press conference held in Chiangmai certainly have heard of King Canute trying to stem the...
June 12, 2012
| Mizzima
The government of Burma should take all necessary steps to protect communities at risk in Arakan (Rakhine) State after violence between Buddhists and...
June 12, 2012
| Mizzima
The seventh meeting on the Asean Human Rights Declaration (AHRD), to be held in Kuala Lumpur on June 22 – 23, will hear the views of civil society...
June 12, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Business sources SHAN has talked to have rejected Thai drug czar’s claim that after drug “godfather” Naw Kham was arrested on 25 April, the one most...
June 12, 2012
| KNG
Transportation fares have tripled as many workers from Hpakant, also Phakant Township and surrounding areas are leaving home caused by rising...
June 12, 2012
| Khunumthung
Shops were closed in Teddim town by locals as part of a protest against the Chin state assembly decision of not allowing district level...
June 12, 2012
| KNG
The Kachin community and fellow countrymen staged a demonstration in New Delhi, India demanding the Burmese government to end their military...
June 12, 2012
| KIC
Villagers living along the Dawei to Kanchanaburi road, in Southern Burma accused the Burma Army of illegally extorting money from them and for...
June 12, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Workers calling for increased pay and better treatment ended their strike Friday, 8 June, after agreement was reached with the Win Myint Mo company,...
June 9, 2012
| S.H.A.N
Participants at a recent sounding-off meeting organized by the joint house fact-facting mission had urged increased rights for the states and regions...