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April 27, 2011
Despite a popularly ‘elected’ government, human rights violations in ethnic states carried out by Burma Army soldiers are still coming out. 7...
April 27, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Needles, used to inject narcotics, are littered across the Manau Festival grounds, testifying to the rampant drug abuse among...
April 27, 2011
Rangoon (Mizzima) – The Burmese government’s new fuel rationing limit of six gallons of petrol over a three-day period has car owners anxious and...
April 27, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – If two Burmese cabinet ministers in a government-backed religious group that promotes Buddhism really want to do their jobs,...
April 27, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The 10th Sino-Burmese Border Trade Fair is scheduled to open on Friday in Muse on the Burmese-China border in Shan State but...
April 27, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A swift coordinated response between the Burmese government, international NGOs and local organizations after Cyclone Giri hit...
April 27, 2011
Bangkok (Mizzima) – The Thai Cabinet has issued a new order to deal with illegal immigrant workers, including reopening registration for workers who...
April 27, 2011
Rangoon (Mizzima) – The Burmese prosecutor in the case against the Australian cofounder of the Myanmar Times newspaper failed to appear at a hearing...
April 27, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – S. K. Tripathi, the chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s foreign intelligence agency, visited Naypyitaw on Monday...
April 27, 2011
The military-backed Burmese government collected an opium tax during the recent opium season in Kachin State in the country’s north while...
April 26, 2011
Chittagong, Bangladesh: In April, the regular meeting of Burmese ethnic groups living in the UK was hosted by the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK,...
April 26, 2011
Sittwe: An Arakanese lawmaker has reportedly written a letter to the chairman of the people's parliament asking permission to hold public conferences...
April 26, 2011
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) arrested two Bangladeshi in Maungdaw North on April 18 while the men visited Peran Pru...
April 26, 2011
7 villagers living in Mongton township of Shan State East, facing Chiangmai’s Wiang Haeng and Chiangdao districts, were killed by strong winds which...
April 26, 2011
Bangkok (Mizzima) – Renewed fighting between Burmese government troops and units from a breakaway faction of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA...

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