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March 25, 2011
Two of the anti- border guard force groups: United Wa State Army (UWSA) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA), were reportedly warned by China...
March 25, 2011
An anonymous democratic group started a campaign for the 21st century Panglong Conference in Sittwe by distributing posters secretly around the state...
March 25, 2011
Hearings and more hearings. At the fifth hearing in the case against the Australian founder of the Myanmar Times, Ross Dunkley, a Burmese court on...
March 25, 2011
A group of Burmese monks and students who secretly oppose the Burmese junta have criticised Burmese political parties, Asean countries and various...
March 25, 2011
An 11-year-old Shan girl with no previous acting experience is being applauded at film festivals around the world for her portrayal of a Karen...
March 25, 2011
Around 4,000 fishermen from the Pyapon area may have lost their lives in vicious storms that struck Irrawaddy Division last week, according to Win...
March 25, 2011
Burma’s reported program to manufacture Scud-type ballistic missiles could tilt the balance of power in Southeast Asia and provoke a regional arms...
March 25, 2011
A 6.8 earthquake struck northeastern Burma on Thursday night, followed by a second quake one minute later...
March 25, 2011
A Christian preacher U Aung Law was abducted in the second week of January from the western Burma border by the Indo-Myanmar-Bangladesh based Arakan...
March 25, 2011
Police in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram state, northeast India on Tuesday arrested 42 Burmese refugees. Thirty one Burmese nationals were arrested...
March 25, 2011
News of the enactment of a military conscription law that could draft every man and woman at the age of 18 into the armed forces has been spreading...
March 25, 2011
Dr. Manam Tu Ja, leader of the dissolved Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP) and five former senior party officers have applied for membership in...
March 24, 2011
Burma’s Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) in Moulmein, capital of Mon State, has offered a chance for customers to purchase mobile phones...
March 24, 2011
The Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) has started reducing humanitarian aid to the hundreds of the Burmese refugees in Ban Don Yang camp...
March 24, 2011
Burmese Army soldiers have not only been forcing local people to carry food rations in Pha Pun Township of Karen State, they have also been using...

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