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June 9, 2010
| Takaloo
A former Village Peace and Development Council Chairman and eight women were recently sentenced to jail for running a prostitution racket by the...
June 9, 2010
| Maung Aye
Three Muslim community leaders were arrested in Kyauktaw Township in Arakan State on June 6 for allegedly fomenting a protest against new ‘Green ID...
June 9, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
Eleven years have gone by and yet the Burmese military junta’s 15-year drug eradication efforts, to end by 2014, have not been effective, according...
June 9, 2010
The Burmese military junta in its relentless effort to continue with the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam project in Northern Burma, Kachin State is forcing...
June 9, 2010
| Kon Hadae
The Burmese government temporary passport office in based in Kawthuang will be moved to Ranong during the coming rainy season,...
June 9, 2010
A seventeen year old Chin woman was raped and killed on June 7 at 6 am in a field in Phulmawi village, Kalemyo,...
June 9, 2010
The Union Democratic Party (UDP) is preparing to set up sub-offices in Matupi, Mindat and Kanpalet in southern Chin state, Burma. The initiative is...
June 9, 2010
| Akka
Recently retired members of the New Mon State Party (NMSP) appear to be poised to from a second Mon political party to participate in the coming...
June 9, 2010
That the Burmese junta continues to recruit under age persons into the Burmese Army, despite its posturing that it has banned such recruitment, was...
June 8, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
Many strangers with an official look about them have been turning up in Shan State North’s Kyaukme Township, hometown of Burmese Army missile expert...
June 8, 2010
| Takaloo
Over 70 Arakanese refugees staged a demonstration on Monday in front of the UNHCR office in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, calling for immediate...
June 8, 2010
A village chairman in Maungdaw on the western Burma border was arrested by Nasaka, Burma’s border security force on Friday on charges of rape, but he...
June 7, 2010
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), the Bangladesh border security force in Teknaf has been making lists of Rohingya people, who are Burmese nationals in Teknaf...
June 7, 2010
| Tin Soe
Arakanese Rohingya asylum seekers are facing a crisis of food in Cambodia, said Mohamed Tayub, an asylum seeker in a mobile phone interview.....