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December 24, 2010
The 23 Burmese crewmen of Liberian-flagged container ship MSC Panama, hijacked early this month by Somali pirates, have been allowed to contact their...
December 24, 2010
The inaugural ceremony of the new Stillwell Road to the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam construction site was celebrated with gusto by the Burmese military...
December 24, 2010
The United Wa State Army (UWSA), one of the ceasefire groups at loggerheads with the Burma Army over the Border Guard Force (BGF) program, has...
December 23, 2010
An elected Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP)'s representative in Shan State South's Kunhing township was summoned to Naypyitaw in order to...
December 23, 2010
A large number of buffalo from Burma have been entering Bangladesh through Shapuri Dip, said a local cattle trader. Previously, mostly cows had been...
December 23, 2010
In a renewed bid to establish its hegemony in Kachin State, the Kachin ethnic armed group, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has renewed...
December 23, 2010
The most ancient city of Arakan, known historically as Danyawaddy, which existed in the 6 century BCE, was destroyed by bulldozers for construction...
December 21, 2010
Taping, a border checkpoint between the ceasefire group National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA)'s main base Mongla and Burma Army controlled...
December 21, 2010
With the hope of promoting trade and regional development, India and Burma laid the foundation for construction of a port and waterway terminal as...
December 21, 2010
Transocean, the Swiss-American drilling firm being sued by the United States for its role in the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has...
December 21, 2010
Burmese migrant workers’ life is extremely uncertain and unsafe in Thailand as they flee one difficult or deadly situation into another, meanwhile...
December 21, 2010
A 124 year-old Muslim cemetery was demolished by the Burmese military regime’s Engineers’ Corps from Pegu Division on December 16, 2010, according to...
December 21, 2010
Perturbed human rights activists have pointed out that the junta’s wresting control of the traditional Kachin Manau dance festival will impair and...
December 21, 2010
Burmese migrant workers’ life is extremely uncertain and unsafe in Thailand as they flee one difficult or deadly situation into another, meanwhile...
December 21, 2010
The Rakhine National Development Party, or RNDP, has plans to set up a company with the aim of fundraising for party activities and social affairs,...

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