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August 25, 2010
The construction of barbed wire fencing on the Burma- Bangladesh border has led to extortion from the Rohingya....
August 25, 2010
The USDP has nominated candidates for the forthcoming election for northern Arakan, said a politician....
August 25, 2010
For the first time during its sixteen year old ceasefire agreement with the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO),....
August 25, 2010
Senior Burmese government officials are salting away assets of all kinds and stashing funds in offshore banks in a sure sign....
August 25, 2010
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) along with local junta authorities have closed down the National Unity....
August 25, 2010
Two child soldiers of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), who did not want to join the Border Guard Force (BGF),....
August 25, 2010
Two of Burma’s ceasefire groups: the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) aka Mongla group,....
August 25, 2010
Bureaucratic roadblocks by the junta’s electoral watchdog have forced the Union Karen League party to miss the deadline.....
August 25, 2010
Parents of children vaccinated against polio in the former Burmese capital have been pressured into joining the main....
August 25, 2010
The Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State (UDPKS), northern Burma has decided it will only contest the general election in seven....
August 25, 2010
Chin political parties keen on contesting the elections on November 7 in Burma are struggling with financial constraints to fund....
August 25, 2010
The Chin Human Rights Organization has strongly condemned the destruction of a Christian cross in Chin State, in Burma recently......
August 25, 2010
Scant weeks after Burmese head-of-state Senior General Than Shwe paid an official visit to India, New Delhi may be on the verge....
August 24, 2010
Voters in Karen State will have five political parties to choose from in the national elections to be held on 7....
August 24, 2010
Latest reports from several ethnic parties say that of all registered political parties to contest in the elections in Burma,....

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