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November 27, 2010
About 1,000 Karen people from Phaluu village in Wor Lay area fled to Thailand yesterday afternoon, fearing gun battles because the Burmese Army and...
November 26, 2010
A United Nations special envoy will visit Burma this weekend to meet the recently released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s military...
November 26, 2010
The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) in Mon State has asked for donations for residents of Arakan State suffering from Cyclone Giri. On...
November 26, 2010
Women and children suffered terribly during the 2010 general election given the gun battles in border areas, according to a Women’s League of Burma (...
November 26, 2010
Nearly a hundred Thai mobile phones of local residents from Mongton township, opposite Chiangmai’s Chiangdao district, have been seized by local...
November 26, 2010
Burmese officials have reversed their order to evict Aids patients from a hospice Aung San Suu Kyi visited last week. Patients at South Dagon HIV /...
November 26, 2010
In the wake of the 2010 general elections in Burma, in a retaliatory measure, the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in Chin...
November 26, 2010
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Incidents of illegal detention of Rohingya refugees for extortion are increasing, according to a refugee leader, who declined to...
November 26, 2010
Domestic airline Yangon Airways will suspend all flights from December 3 in the slipstream of the Burmese civil aviation authority rejection of its...
November 25, 2010
Health and education projects will be the focus of an alliance formed today between the Democratic Party (Myanmar) and the National League for...
November 25, 2010
A 16-year old girl from Shan State South’s Langkhurh township was raped by a locally-based Burmese Army soldier and both her parents were murdered,...
November 25, 2010
The Burmese military junta has banned all cross border trade between China and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), in Kachin State, Northern Burma,...
November 25, 2010
Shan Nationalities Democratic Party leader Sao Yuan Pai has criticised as premature the Zomi National Congress plan now managed by Aung San Suu Kyi...
November 25, 2010
Following donations already made by Australia, Japan, Britain and Denmark, the United States’ embassy in Rangoon is to tender a US$3 million donation...
November 25, 2010
Vehicles without license coming from Thailand loaded with goods were seized near the broken bridge on the Thai-Burma border town of Myawaddy on...

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