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Sleeping Nets for babies at Mae Tao Clinic, Child IPD in Mae Sot © Phil Thornton
June 17, 2015
To commemorate ASEAN Dengue Day on 15 June 2015, international aid agencies, community based groups and public health workers across the region...
June 17, 2015
The official Mon State voter-lists of people eligible to vote includes some people who have died.
June 15, 2015
Of the Chin State students who sat this year's matriculation exams 17.84 percent passed, more than double last year's pass rate of 8.07 percent.
June 12, 2015
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: On 9 June, two Rohingya were identified among the 150 supposed Bangladeshi boat-people who were repatriated from Burma to...
Flag meeting for Boatpeople  in Taungpyo, Maungdaw
June 12, 2015
The Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) handed over 150 rescued Bangladeshi boat-people to the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at the Taungpyo border point...
June 11, 2015
A Thai construction company began working on a second Maesot-Myawaddy Friendship Bridge project on the Thai side of the border in early June.
June 10, 2015
The Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) Drugs and Democracy Programme has released a report saying that the ongoing peace process raises...
June 10, 2015
Khun Than Cho was worried when the school called to tell her, her daughter, Aye Aye was sick. “I was planting corn with my husband and older son when...
June 10, 2015
Mon State had the second highest performing high school students of any state in this year's matriculation exams, after six years of being the...
June 10, 2015
Poverty is a leading cause in student dropouts across rural Mon schools in Southern Burma, according to a report released by the Woman and Child...
The Press Conference on the Community Concerns about Salween Dams in Shan State held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand
June 10, 2015
A coalition of Shan community based organisations (CBOs) called for a halt to a controversial energy project on the Upper Salween River in Southern...
June 9, 2015
On 5 June the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry summoned the Burmese ambassador in Dhaka over a Rakhine state minister’s comment, which they condemned for...