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June 18, 2010
A tornado lashed Tae Chaung Village in Sittwe at midnight on June 14, destroying homes and leaving many families homeless,...
June 18, 2010
The UNHCR in Maungdaw on the Burma border distributed relief yesterday to flood victims in two flood shelters in the town, said local residents...
June 17, 2010
| Juli Chai
Authorities have closed the Thailand-Burma Friendship Bridge after the swollen river washed away chunks of the Burmese land downriver...
June 17, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
Burma’s ruling military junta has imposed rationing of fuel sold at the country’s new private petrol stations, two days after it privatised its...
June 17, 2010
The Burmese military junta is now in the midst of collecting funds from people in Kachin State, Northern Burma for emergency use in the forthcoming...
June 17, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
A military helicopter crash during a training exercise in Shan State yesterday killed four air-force personnel including three officers and injured...
June 17, 2010
| Kyaw Mya
Burma is among the 13 countries that fail to meet US minimum standards in fighting the crime of human trafficking, according to the US State...
June 17, 2010
The death toll in the floods in northern Arakan State has mounted after two townships faced torrential rains this week....
June 16, 2010
Two young Burmese migrant workers riding a motorcycle to buy phone cards were killed in a highway accident in Selangor, Malaysia last weekend,....
June 16, 2010
Over 500 acres of arable land, which were returned to Rohingya farmers last year, were confiscated yet again by Maungdaw Township Peace and...
June 16, 2010
Floods and landslides triggered by incessant heavy rain killed 26 people, including children and destroyed many houses on Tuesday on the western...
June 16, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
The Wa Democratic Party (WDP) that has been granted permission to float a political party to contest the elections, ‘doesn’t represent the Wa people...
June 16, 2010
Hospitalization in Muse Township is out of reach of many patients because the name of the game here is money.....
June 16, 2010
The results of the Board Examinations of 2010 in Chin state, western Burma was published in the second week of June, where 16.38 per cent of the...
June 15, 2010
Karen rebel forces have launched three separate ambushes against junta troops – with unconfirmed reports of 14 Burmese Army soldiers killed, and 27...