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November 22, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
Sai Hla Aung, imprisoned CEC member of the de-registered Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), the party that won statewide in the 1990...
November 22, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
Burma’s democracy icon had promised to fight for democracy and ethnic rights, both at the same time, during the meeting with United Nationalities...
November 22, 2011
| Min Thet
Rangoon (Mizzima) – A bomb blast caused serious damage to a Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) office in Myanaung Township, Irrawaddy...
November 22, 2011
| Myo Thant
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Burmese Union Assembly Speaker Khin Aung Myint on Friday cancelled his own motion regarding sending bills approved by the...
November 22, 2011
| KNG
An unusual yellow rain fell for the second straight day today in Mai Ja Yang, one of the two major towns under the control of the Kachin Independence...
November 21, 2011
| KNG
Despite worsening weather conditions, some 6000 Kachin have fled the fighting near their homes to the Chinese border. They have found temporary...
November 21, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
The Shan State Army (SSA) South, after one and a half hour meeting with Naypyitaw’s special representative U Aung Min at an undisclosed location on...
November 21, 2011
| S.H.A.N.
U Aung Min, minister of railway transport and special representative of President Thein Sein, met delegations from Shan, Karen, Karenni, Chin and...
November 21, 2011
| Te Te
New Delhi (Mizzima) – The long-time party emblem of Burma’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) – a bamboo hat – will fade into history...
November 21, 2011
| kaladan Press
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 16 would be boat people at the Shapuri Dip jetty. They were boarding a vessel whose...
November 21, 2011
| Narinjara
Yangon: Two of eleven Arakanese youth were were arrested and imprisoned in 2009 walked free from Insein Prison in Rangoon on Friday morning after...
November 21, 2011
| Narinjara
Mra Bon: Five consecutive fires broke out this November in western Burma's Arakan State, with the latest one gutting 146 houses in Cittara Village in...
November 20, 2011
| kaladan Press
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Two Rohingya men, Hussain Ali and Mohamed Joniat from Maungdaw North, were arrested on suspicion of smuggling. They were handed...
November 20, 2011
| kaladan Press
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Fearing arrest, many Rohingyas in two villages in northern Arakan State have fled their homes, said a Rohingya youth from...
November 20, 2011
| Narinjara
Buthidaung: An army battalion based in Buthidaung in western Burma's Arakan State has recently recruited a 14-year-old student from the area,...