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May 27, 2010
In an open letter to Hu Jintao, President of People’s Republic of China today, ethnic Kachin social activists have requested China once again to put...
May 27, 2010
| Phanida
Burma’s main opposition group, the National League for Democracy, held the 20th anniversary of its 1990 election victory today in a gathering at the...
May 27, 2010
Five people were killed in torrential rain laced with strong winds followed by landslides, which destroyed hundreds of huts today...
May 27, 2010
Continuing with its cat and mouse game with the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) the Burmese junta released Kachin leader Labang Gam Awng...
May 27, 2010
| Min Thet
Mingala wholesale market, gutted in a devastating 33-hour fire, will be renovated within two months, and three temporary trading spaces have been...
May 27, 2010
The Burmese military junta with an eye on the forthcoming general elections has begun to woo the...
May 27, 2010
| konee
The Burmese military junta is selling confiscated land to government employees at cheap rates, said sources from Loikaw,...
May 27, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
The main challenge for the Shan Nationals Democratic Party (SNDP) in Shan State, especially in the South and East is to convince the non-Shan voters...
May 27, 2010
Democracy promises to address deep divisions more successfully than any alternative, according to Nathan Glazer, a professor of education and...
May 26, 2010
| Mungpi
US Senator Jim Webb is to pay his second visit to military-ruled Burma during a tour of three Asian countries that will begin on Saturday,...
May 26, 2010
| Phanida
More than 70 youth activists have been arrested in a two-day sweep by authorities in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, in the wake of the...
May 26, 2010
| Kyaw Kha
Clandestine monk and student organisations yesterday urged the people of Burma yesterday to boycott this year’s general elections to prevent...
May 26, 2010
As if to press home the point that it means business the Burmese military junta arrested more Kachin youths following a meeting with Kachin...
May 26, 2010
In a bid to induct students as members, the committee members of the Regional Development Association (RDA) of Maungdaw town have been distributing...
May 26, 2010
| Phanida
Human Rights Watch award-winning poet Saw Wei was released today, his wife said, 18 months into a two-year jail term for indirectly ridiculing...