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South Korea has awarded its highest human rights award “Gwangju Prize for Human Rights” to Burma’s leading student activist Min Ko Naing, who is currently serving 65 years of imprisonment, for peacefully protesting in August 2007......
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(Opinion) The National League for Democracy (NLD) party will hold its plenary meeting shortly at its head office in Rangoon which will be attended by elected MPs, Executive Committee members, delegates from all States and Divisions, Central Youth and Wo...
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Unidentified offenders used weed killers to poison the water supply of the Mae La refugee camp on April 11. The camp, on the Thai-Burma border, home to more than 30,000 people, was bereft of water for four days, as pumps and water treatment plants were se...
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The government of Thailand will lift the state of emergency in Bangkok on Friday, even as the authorities maintain restrictions on political content on websites of private-run cable TV and community radio stations....
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Local Weekly Journals in Rangoon said they have been prohibited from publishing follow-up news on a murder case that took place in Botahtaung Township of Rangoon in early April....
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In a fresh crackdown on migrants, Malaysian authorities arrested at least 200 Burmese nationals on Wednesday, in Kuala Lumpur. During a joint operation conducted by the Malaysian police,...
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A fire broke out gutting a factory on Thursday in Rangoon’s suburban Township of South Dagon, fire department officials said. The fire started at about 11:45 a.m. (local time) at the ‘May Yu’ Peas factory in the Industrial zone (1) of the township, ...
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A fresh outbreak of Diarrhea has reportedly killed four people in Rangoon’s Thaketa Township and led to 60 people being hospitalized in suburban North Okklapa this month, local residents said....
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New Delhi (Mizzima) - A fire on Thursday broke out at Rangoon’s suburban Township of South Dagon burning a bean factory, fire department said....
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A Karen National Liberation Army soldier was injured in a land mine explosion this afternoon as his unit made its way through dense jungle. The pitched battle for the base camp entered the 10th day today. Wah Lay Kee camp, just across the Thai border, is ...
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Authorities have shut down at least five cement factories located in Burma’s second largest city of Mandalay for failing to comply with an order to move issued two years ago....
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After decades of extensive and largely unregulated logging, many forests in Northern Burma’s Kachin state are nearly barren, resulting in a warming climate, according to local environmentalist....
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A lone explosion - a land mine detonating, broke the stillness of Tuesday night, as soldiers steeled themselves for another onslaught on their base camp. However, it did not happen and the soldiers settled down for another night of fitful sleep punctuated...
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Burmese junta authorities in Rangoon’s Twante Township on Tuesday arrested two members of the opposition National League for Democracy for arranging a prayer meeting for the release......
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The Naypyitaw airport in Burma's new jungle capital is to be revamped to international standards where transportation and communication facilities will be upgraded to facilitate the travel of military rulers to their homes....
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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will provide another chance to Burma to reapply for financial assistance. “Burma is being given the right to apply in keeping with our guideline and policy,...
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Casualties mounted on both sides this afternoon as an onslaught was launched to capture a Karen National Liberation Army encampment close to the Thai border by the Burmese Army and an allied militia which stretched into the ninth day....
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Private advertising firms face severe losses because the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) Engineering Department (Building) has started to auction off billboard sites......
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The Thai Social Development Minister is scheduled to visit Burma this Friday for the signing of an anti-human trafficking agreement and to strengthen bilateral cooperation regarding......
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One of Burma’s major ethnic ceasefire groups – United Wa State Army (UWSA) – has acknowledged it has failed over the past two decades to achieve its primary objective of gaining autonomy for all Wa inhabited regions....
