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December 14, 2011
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
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
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 – 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Rohingya women from northern Arakan, who travel to Bangladesh for medical treatment, are facing more difficulties there than in...

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