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May 15, 2012
Without cooperation from the Burma Army, Naypyitaw’s drug eradication and suppression program will not work, according to Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, leader of...
May 15, 2012
The National League for Democracy has been opening village-level offices in Arakan State with an aim to educate the ideology of democracy to the...
May 15, 2012
The number of people leaving their homeland in Arakan is increasing by the day due to the economic crisis and job scarcity in the western Burmese...
May 15, 2012
A group of shopkeepers from Myoma Market, the largest market in Arakan State’s capital Sittwe, have flocked to the local municipal office to demand a...
May 15, 2012
Burma will remain a volatile area for business investment if the Obama Administration broadly relaxes U.S. sanctions, according to a dozen investors...
May 15, 2012
Burmese President Thein Sein said Burma will no longer purchase arms from North Korea and it will honour U.N. weapons sanctions against the rogue...
May 15, 2012
The Burmese government will end prior censorship of news publications and form a press council to advise on media laws and ethnics, Information...
May 15, 2012
This morning the Karen National Union officially opened its third liaison office in Three Pagoda Pass Town, Dooplaya District, Karen State to help...
May 14, 2012
The Karen National Union is to open a new liaison branch office at Three Pagoda Pass in Dooplaya district of Karen State on May 15, according to a...
May 14, 2012
Two Burma army soldiers were killed and 4 others injured after weekend clashes between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), near...
May 14, 2012
As the two sides: Naypyitaw and Loi Taileng (the main base of the Shan State Army “South”) gear up for further progress in their peace talks, 3 more...
May 14, 2012
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) says it will review the ethnic cease-fire agreements reached with the Burmese government if the...
May 12, 2012
Mon language study is only permitted in Mon State government schools two days a week, on Saturdays and Sundays, according to a source from Mon...
May 12, 2012
A colorful Democratic Karen Buddhist Army leader, Major General Na Kham Mwe, who is accused of drug running by Thai authorities, held a press...
May 12, 2012
Burmese lawmakers, headed by Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann, visited the European parliament on Thursday, the first ever visit by Burmese officials.

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