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August 22, 2011
In a rare statement read out on the national state-controlled television last week, Burma’s government urged ethnic groups engaged in armed conflict...
August 22, 2011
The Karen National Union denied reports in Burma’s state controlled newspapers that claimed that on August 8 an attack by Karen fighters had wounded...
August 20, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – The Burmese government has reduced the income tax levied on foreign currency paid as a salary to Burmese citizens living in...
August 20, 2011
Independent Mon News Agency - The leaders of several armed ethnic groups are united in rejecting the idea of individual peace talks with the newly...
August 20, 2011
Min Thuta - Amid the Union Government’s calls for peace and its simultaneous military offensives toward ethnic groups, Nai Ngwe Thein, an experienced...
August 20, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A private meeting with Burmese President Thein Sein and chats with other high-level government ministers were highlights of...
August 20, 2011
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has rejected an offer of new peace talks from the Burmese government, according to a statement released on...
August 19, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – The chief of mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of India said that all relevant factors and...
August 19, 2011
100,000 Yaba or Methamphetamine tablets reportedly being trafficked from Burma were seized on Wednesday from a vehicle in Cox’s Bazaar in South East...
August 19, 2011
Man Aung: Part of the Burmese Naval Force stationed in Kyaukpru in western Burma’s Arakan State has seized a herd of 120 cattle that were to be...
August 19, 2011
One evening on a hill in Mawchi town, while some young people from the Baptist Church were busy cleaning up their church grounds and cutting the long...
August 19, 2011
Arka – Mon State Chief Minister U Ohm Myint is pressuring the All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMDP) to resign from the Brotherhood of Ethnic...
August 19, 2011
Friends of democratic parties have urged the US government to take note of the activities of Burmese political parties that contested the 2010...
August 19, 2011
The Centralization system will be discussed in the forthcoming national level workshop on economic development for more transparency and persuasion...
August 19, 2011
Seven Burmese soldiers were killed Thursday morning during fighting with the Kachin Independence Army KIA) at Wawang Kumbang, in Manmaw (Bhamo)...

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