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November 18, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burma’s opposition political parties including the National Unity Party [NUP], a former rival of the NLD, welcomed the NLD...
November 18, 2011
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Water has been in short supply since April this year at the unofficial Lada refugee camp, according to a camp leader who declined...
November 18, 2011
Rangoon (Mizzima) - Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), voted on Friday to rejoin the political fray and field...
November 18, 2011
(Mizzima) – U.S. President Barack Obama talked to Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi by phone on Thursday to confirm that she supported U.S...
November 17, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – As the Burmese by-elections draw near, the fate of the Committee Representing the People's Parliament (CRPP) made up of...
November 17, 2011
Bali (Mizzima) – Burmese presidential adviser Ko Ko Hlaing told reporters in Indonesia on Thursday that Asean leaders have named Burma the rotating...
November 17, 2011
Kachin Independence Army (KIA) troops pushed back Burmese Army forces from the KIA’s Laiza headquarters on Thursday, seizing many small arms as well...
November 17, 2011
“The Chin National Front (CNF) will fight against all its enemies on behalf of Chin nationals and for Chinland,” said Colonel Solomon, of the Chin...
November 17, 2011
Sittwe: The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) held a paper-reading seminar on 13 November in its head office in the capital Sittwe in...
November 17, 2011
One of the 3 main plots of ‘Traffic’, the Oscar-winning movie in 2001, was about a general who was waging war against a drug cartel in Mexico...
November 16, 2011
Six Burmese soldiers on security duty were killed on the evening of November 15 when a landmine exploded. This took place at the Irrawaddy river...
November 16, 2011
Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burma border security force (Nasaka) and three collaborators have compelled village administration officials to collect...
November 16, 2011
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) seized two Malaysia-bound trawlers on November 13 while the vessels were being prepared to put...
November 16, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – After they delivered a one-hour final talk in Old Masoeyein Monastery in Mandalay on Wednesday, five Burmese monks who staged...
November 16, 2011
New report: Drugs proliferating across Shan State under Burma’s new government The latest Shan Drug Watch report, released today, reveals that opium...

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