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June 1, 2012
Burma and Bangladesh will open a direct air link soon to connect Rangoon and Dhaka, said the Bangladesh Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister M Faruk...
June 1, 2012
Over 700 angry people marched to the township administration office on 30 May to protest against the authorities over the brutal rape and murder of...
June 1, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party opened an official party office in Myitkyina, the capital of war-torn Kachin state,...
May 31, 2012
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to visit Mae La refugee camp on Saturday June 2, located in Thailand’s Tak province an organizer of her confirmed...
May 31, 2012
Karen armed groups have agreed in principal to unite under the same flag to try to resolve all conflicts between them through peaceful dialogue. The...
May 31, 2012
An agreement on technical aid has been signed between the Central Bank of Myanmar and the Daiwa Research Institute and Tokyo Stock Exchange of Japan...
May 31, 2012
Officials alone can’t transform Burma and the country needs a “bottom up initiative” to become a democratic nation, an editorial in the state-run...
May 31, 2012
Universities in Rangoon and Mandalay in the future will have special education centres with a mission to upgrade the overall education standards in...
May 31, 2012
In a recent update, the number of political prisoners is Burma has been put at 471 confirmed prisoners, with 465 more prisoners in a verification...
May 31, 2012
Three suspected culprits who allegedly committed the crimes of rape and murder in Rambree in Arakan State were reported to be arrested by the police...
May 31, 2012
Two Burmese officers and four soldiers were killed after Kachin Independence Army (KIA), 9th Battalion, ambushed and destroyed two Burmese military...
May 31, 2012
A new peace negotiating team, led by Burmese Railways Minister Aung Min, arrived at Mai Ja Yang, the second largest town under Kachin Independence...
May 31, 2012
Representatives of civil societies who met Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Torgier Larsen in Chiangmai yesterday, on his return from a visit to...
May 30, 2012
SHAN’s Shan Drug Watch program had reported only 7 druglords in parliament in its 2011 report, but there is yet another druglord, who was “elected”...
May 30, 2012
Locals in Man-aung are reported to have been insulted and threatened in crude, swearing words from a colonel from the military warship No. 618, which...

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