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May 27, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Zin Lin, the vice chairman of the Thailand-based Burma Media Association (BMA), on Thursay joined the UN Correspondents...
May 27, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to travel to rural areas in Burma to try to encourage more political...
May 27, 2011
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Police personnel of Maungdaw seized a vehicle with three Rakhine for carrying morphine ampules and bottles of phensedyl last...
May 27, 2011
Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh: Heavy winds and rain destroyed Rohingya refugee camps which are situated along the Burma-Bangladesh border on May 20,...
May 27, 2011
The first shots have been fired between Burmese and Kachin troops in Kachin State, Northern Burma this morning at 10:20 a.m. local time, sources in...
May 27, 2011
Many quake victims from Talerh (Talay) and Mong Lane (Monglin) village tracts of Shan State East’s Tachilek township, where a 6.8 magnitude of...
May 27, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Starting Wednesday morning, many townships in Rangoon Division in Burma experienced a lack of water following the rupture of a...
May 27, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – All Burmese ‘public access centre’ Internet cafes have been ordered to reapply for a business license from the state-owned...
May 26, 2011
Bangkok (Mizzima) – Fourteen political prisoners who were sent to ‘military-dog cells’, small rooms about 8 x 10 feet, for staging a hunger-strike...
May 26, 2011
Burmese troops are still not responding to the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) warning that all Burmese troops deployed close to KIA military camps...
May 26, 2011
(Commentary) – The recent political developments in Myanmar [Burma] have prompted a renewed debate on the sanctions imposed exclusively by Western...
May 26, 2011
(Interview) – Steve Marshall, the International Labour Organization liaison in Rangoon, recently visited Harka Township in Chin State. Reporter Ko...
May 26, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burmese President Thein Sein on Thursday began his first official state visit to China, his first bilateral trip to a foreign...
May 26, 2011
Lt-Gen Yawdserk, leader of the anti-Naypyitaw Shan State Army (SSA), says so far no party concerned has approached him though there has been a lot of...
May 26, 2011
The second winning party in Shan State, Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) more popularly known as the “White Tiger” party, is calling on the...

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