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January 30, 2012
One woman pro-democracy activist who took the Burma government’s invitation to return home seriously is Daw San Dar Win, a teacher, who works at...
January 30, 2012
The Karen Women’s Organization released a statement today to say they had formed a peace committee, in accordance with the United Nations Security...
January 30, 2012
[B]LAIZA, Burma[/B] — The leadership of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), Burma's last major armed ethnic group still engaged in armed...
January 30, 2012
Burma will introduce a law in this session of Parliament for an eight-year tax exemption for foreign investors as Western companies have “rushed” to...
January 30, 2012
Members of eight Burmese political parties arrived in New Delhi on Saturday to discuss the Kaladan River project, a joint India-Burma trade venture.
January 30, 2012
Burmese voters got their first real taste of Aung San Suu Kyi the political campaigner on Sunday as thousands of supporters greeted her in Dawei, the...
January 30, 2012
Holding state and union level meetings both in a single day on Saturday, 28 January, in Shan State capital Taunggyi, the two sides had successfully...
January 30, 2012
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Maungdaw High School is collecting extra fees from student which is giving to divert student from education, said an elder...
January 30, 2012
Kyauk Pru: Some 49 farmers from Kyaukpru Township in Arakan State have lodged a written complaint to the concerned authorities for not receiving the...
January 30, 2012
As Burma’s Parliament prepares for its next session, the London based pro-democracy advocates, ‘Burma Campaign UK’, called on the international...
January 27, 2012
MUSE, Burma — Less than a week after peace talks between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese government ended unsuccessfully,...
January 27, 2012
A Palaung rights group has demanded Thein Sein government to investigate the recent killing which have resulted in a Palaung villager tortured to...
January 27, 2012
A top U.S. lawmaker, in an address to his colleagues in the U.S. Senate, said he never thought he would get to meet Burma’s opposition leader Aung...
January 27, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi told delegates to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday that Burma “yearns to be part of the global community...
January 27, 2012
As many as 918 political prisoners may still be locked up in Burmese prisons, but an accurate list of the number is still incomplete, say groups...

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