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December 14, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
Portering, forced labor and requisitioning of motor vehicles have not ceased in rural townships like Namtu, 39 miles northwest of Lashio, the biggest...
December 14, 2011
| Myo Thant
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – In another sign of expanding freedoms in Burma, the National League for Democracy (NLD) will publish a weekly party periodical...
December 13, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) sent twelve Rohingyas back to Burma on December 12. The expulsions took place at various...
December 13, 2011
| IMNA
IMNA – New Mon State Party (NMSP) has planned to organize peace talks with representatives of the Burmese government, said Nai Hong Sar, the General...
December 13, 2011
| Ko Wild
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Ten Chinese cargo ships departing from Guanlei port in southwestern Yunnan Province arrived in Chiang Saen port on the Mekong...
December 13, 2011
| Min Thet
Rangoon (Mizzima) – The Friends of Democracy, a 10-party coalition, says it has not joined forces with the Union Solidarity and Development Party (...
December 13, 2011
| KNG
Dozens of Burmese soldiers were killed Saturday and a large number were injured when a series of land mines were remotely denoted. The explosions...
December 13, 2011
| Narinjara
Dhaka: Burma's naval chief, Vice Admiral Nyan Tun, has arrived in Bangladesh to increase military ties between the two neighboring countries,...
December 13, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
Tipped and joined by Chinese drug busters, officials from the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA), better known as the Mongla group, had netted...
December 13, 2011
| Myo Thant
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Seventy million kyat (about US $88,600) was handed over to Kachin State Chief Minister Lajun Ngun Sai on Monday, a personal...
December 13, 2011
| Min Thet
Rangoon (Mizzima) – Burma’s state-run TV has announced that the government and the Kalo Htoo Baw, a small breakaway faction of the Democratic Karen...
December 13, 2011
| Saw Khar Su Nyar
The Karen National Union and the Pa'an Town-based Karen Peace Committee met on the Thai Burma border in early December to discuss recent ceasefire...
December 13, 2011
| kaladan Press
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) deported eight Rohingyas back to Burma on December 11. They had been arrested at the border,...
December 13, 2011
| kaladan Press
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The Nasaka, Burma’s border security force, abducted two Bangladeshi fishermen on December 10, at about 1:00 am. The men were...
December 12, 2011
| kaladan Press
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Rohingya women from northern Arakan, who travel to Bangladesh for medical treatment, are facing more difficulties there than in...