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March 12, 2012
Burma’s national journalism awards will be awarded for the first time in decades. The awards will be given to honor individual journalists by the...
March 12, 2012
The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) agreed with the Burma government to open a liaison office for on-going peace talks after recently...
March 12, 2012
Akyab, Arakan State: U Tha Lu Chey, the minister of the Arakan State Administration Board, is trying to build a Buddha Damma youn (Buddhist community...
March 11, 2012
Two days of talks between the Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Organization concluded in China on Friday without a comprehensive peace...
March 10, 2012
The location of a public speech by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), to be held in Than Lwin Garden,...
March 10, 2012
More than 60 Vietnamese company representatives will arrive in Burma on Sunday, says the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and...
March 10, 2012
Zin Mar Aung, a Burmese activist for women’s rights, received the International Women of Courage Award from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
March 10, 2012
Burma Centre Delhi, in collaboration with the Journalist Forum Assam, held a program, “Interactive Session on Changing Policies in Burma:...
March 10, 2012
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese government can’t get peace talks started, because they disagree on how the process should...
March 8, 2012
All homes and other buildings in a village next to the site of the officially suspended Myitsone dam project have been ordered destroyed by Burmese...
March 8, 2012
There are more than 90 Burma Army infantry battalions facing Kachin Independence Army (KIA) as the two sides prepared to hold the third round of...
March 8, 2012
The Burmese activist monk, Ashin Gambira, was detained by Rangoon authorities again on Tuesday, according to his brother. Gambira is a leading monk...
March 8, 2012
Residents in Tanhpre Village near Burma’s Miytsone Dam project have been ordered to move to a government-constructed village within 10 days or face...
March 8, 2012
The deadline for correcting voter registration rolls expired on Tuesday, but complaints over the rolls’ accuracy are still coming in.
March 8, 2012
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird will be in Burma for one day on Thursday.

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