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August 30, 2011
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma’s border security force- Nasaka, squeezed a local youth to extort Kyat 700,000 in Maungdaw, on August 24, by giving...
August 30, 2011
Teknaf, Bangladesh: A refugee woman was attempted to rape by a local youth on August 28, while she was in his shop for recharging her mobile set in...
August 30, 2011
A fundraising campaign for the Chin Education Network (CEN), will be held with a stage show by Burmese popular singers in Rangoon, former capital of...
August 30, 2011
In a joint raid, CADS and Excise and Narcotic Enforcement staff seized two canes (40 grams) of heroin worth Rs. 70,000 from a Chin national in...
August 30, 2011
So far Naypyitaw has yet to explain what the “preliminary programmes” included in its 18 August peace talks offer to the armed opposition movements...
August 30, 2011
Mrauk U: Trishaw pullers from Mrauk U in western Burma’s Arakan State have written an appeal to the Chief Minister of the state to stop the municipal...
August 30, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – To test the new Burmese government’s openness to democracy, the student underground group All Burma Federation of Student...
August 30, 2011
Rangoon (Mizzima) – Hundreds of books written by one of Burma’s most popular authors have been subject to copyright infringement, but the works will...
August 29, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese citizens who have been abused by the government or businessmen can take their complaint to the Democratic Party (...
August 29, 2011
In response to Naypyitaw’s demand to yield alien Hmongs living in Wa territory, the Wa authorities last week informed the Hmongs to return to their...
August 29, 2011
Jaloon Htaw - Two kidnapped villagers from Kha-rich, Karen State, were released from an island in the Gyaing River, Karen State, after ransom was...
August 29, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese democracy activists in exile say they do not see the on-going interactions between Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese...
August 29, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - The United Nations’ International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) will begin hearings September 5 to resolve a heated...
August 29, 2011
Chittagong, Bangladesh: The members of Canadian Burmese Rohingya Organization (CBRO) had held a meeting with coordinators of Amnesty International,...
August 29, 2011
Chittagong, Bangladesh: Rohingya Community Ireland held a demonstration in Dublin in front of both British and Australian Embassies on 24th August,...

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