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October 7, 2010
The fishery sector on the western Burma border near Bangladesh is suffering because of operations by the Burmese Army....
October 7, 2010
| Myint Maung and Thea Forbes
The Rangoon Central Supreme Court yesterday accepted a lawsuit filed by detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi challenging....
October 7, 2010
The Election Commission (EC) has re-allowed two USDP candidates, who were banned earlier, to contest from Hakha and Thantlang township....
October 7, 2010
The Chin National Party (CNP) has urged Chin people to vote only for candidates who prioritize national interests.....
October 7, 2010
| Khaing Suu
Notices urging the public to boycott the Burmese junta’s elections next month and oppose its constitution were posted....
October 6, 2010
The junta-backed Yuzana Company’s workers in Kachin State, Northern Burma, have been armed and provided....
October 6, 2010
An Arakanese Rohingya was slashed to death with a sword on the night of October 4, while searching.....
October 6, 2010
One person was killed and two others were injured when an army jeep belonging to LIB 272 ran into a team......
October 6, 2010
| Myo Thein
The main state telecoms provider has imposed a 66 per cent increase on calls costs from public booths to mobile phones,....
October 6, 2010
The cause of democracy for Burma is not short of proponents, but few can be said to carry a better pedigree than South Africa’s.....
October 6, 2010
| Maung Aye
The Htoo Company, owned by Burmese tycoon U Tay Za, has confiscated several acres of farmland in Arakan's ancient city of Mrauk U....
October 6, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
Local junta officials in Shan State South and members of the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) are at loggerheads....
October 5, 2010
| Nai Marn
Members of the Democratic Karen Buddha Army (DKBA) who accepted the Burmese government’s Border Guard Force....
October 5, 2010
| Ko Nee
The Thai government’s proposal to repatriate Burmese refugees along the Thai-Burma border to their homeland after the general elections....
October 5, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
A state of emergency has been declared in Burma three months before the elections and three months after the elections.....