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May 23, 2011
Chittagong, Bangladesh: Several thousand Yaba methamphetamine tablets are entering Bangladesh every day from the border with Burma, according to the...
May 23, 2011
Maungdaw, Arakan State: A bridegroom and his elder brother were arrested by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) on May 17 over the allegation that...
May 21, 2011
The Burmese education department is planning to come with school note books for the academic year 2011-2012 at double the price than that prevailing...
May 21, 2011
Sittwe: The ministry of immigration, an "important and most sensitive affair" in western Burma's Arakan State, has been handed over to a minister...
May 21, 2011
Cox’sbazar: Bangladesh police seized a large amount of yaba tablets worth 20 million Taka, along with a microbus on Thursday in a southeastern...
May 20, 2011
Bangkok (Mizzima) – Protesting the Burmese government’s one-year commutation of prison sentences, female political prisoners are on a hunger strike...
May 20, 2011
Buthidaung: 341 prisoners who were about to complete or had just completed their prison terms were released from Buthidaung Prison in western Burma's...
May 20, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - In an open letter sent to Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has asked China to stop the...
May 20, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A senior US official listened to the views of the leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) including party General...
May 20, 2011
China supplied new advanced mine detectors with six trucks to neighbor Burma, where civil war to be broken out with ethnic armed groups demanding...
May 19, 2011
Rangoon (Mizzima) – The newly released political prisoner hip hop singer Zay Yar Thaw says he is trying to meet with Burma’s pro-democracy leader...
May 19, 2011
Dozens of militia men from the battlefields in Shan State North’s Tangyan township are reportedly fleeing almost every week since April after they...
May 19, 2011
A driver and a woman medic were killed in a truck accident in Tedim township of Chin state, Burma near the Indo-Burma border on Tuesday.
May 19, 2011
Buthidaung: A few prisoners were released on Wednesday across Arakan State under a general amnesty from new President Thein Sein, report officials...
May 19, 2011
Kolkata: 31 Arakanese and Karen freedom fighters, who had been detained by Indian authorities since 1998 when they were lured to Indian territory and...

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