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January 30, 2012
| Shwe Thite Taw
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
| KIC
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
| KNG
[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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| S.H.A.N
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
| Kaladan
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
| Narinjara
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
| KIC
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
| KNG
MUSE, Burma — Less than a week after peace talks between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese government ended unsuccessfully,...
January 27, 2012
| S.H.A.N
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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
| Mizzima
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...