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October 24, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized huge medicines in Bangladesh-Burma border on October 21, while being smuggled to...
October 24, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Teknaf, Bangladesh: A group of Malaysia voyager numbering in 156-person have returned back to the Ghat (port) of Shapuri Dip (Island), under Teknaf...
October 24, 2011
| Stephen Perraud / Hseng Khio Fah
Coinciding with his first return trip to Burma since his forced exile in 1963, Euro Burma Office (EBO) director Sao Harn Yawnghwe has released a...
October 24, 2011
| Ko Pauk
New Delhi (Mizzima) – The U.S. Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma, Ambassador Derek Mitchell, arrived in Rangoon on Monday on a...
October 24, 2011
| KNG
Nine Chinese women were gang-raped and killed by Burma Army soldiers during its offensive against the Kachin Independence Army in Northern Shan State...
October 23, 2011
| KNG
The Chinese army secretly transported dozens of Burmese troops inside its border on Friday morning to fight against the Kachin Independence Army,...
October 23, 2011
| Nyi Thit
Rangoon (Mizzima) - The Democracy and Peace Party (DPP) has called on the Election Commission to close down the ruling Union Solidarity and...
October 23, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burma border security force (Nasaka) had been using the recent presidential amnesty as a tool to extort money from...
October 21, 2011
| Salai Z T Lian
(Commentary) – Since the hero of Burma’s independence, General Aung San, was assassinated on July 19, 1947, every successive Burmese government has...
October 21, 2011
| Ko Pauk
New Delhi (Mizzima) – The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) has issued a statement urging Burma and Malaysia to delay a detainee swap...
October 21, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Maungdaw, Arakan State: The new Thein Sein Government in Burma had announced an amnesty to release prisoners where 129 prisoners of northern Arakan...
October 21, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The storm moved northeastwards and crossed Teknaf and Arakan coasts yesterday noon, according to a schoolteacher of Maungdaw.
October 20, 2011
| Thomas Maung Shwe
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma has called for concrete action from the Burmese government in dealing with...
October 20, 2011
| Phanida
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - The Kachin Independence Organization has reported a build up of Burmese government troops around their headquarters in Laiza,...
October 20, 2011
| KIC freelance
The Brotherhood Forum, a group of five ethnic political parties from Burma urged the government to release all political prisoners from the country’s...