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Thursday, 18 June 2009 17:12 Mae Sot (Mizzima) – Burma’s largest active ethnic rebel group has been forced to abandon its stronghold on the Burmese border with Thailand after weeks of fierce fight…
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Around fifteen ethnic Kachin youths, including schoolchildren, were reportedly seriously injured and three were hospitalized in a beating by Burmese soldiers. The beatings took place after the youths …
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Should United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visit Burma? My immediate answer is: yes. But would he achieve anything meaningful? My answer is: no. Then why should he go?Since the regime first p…
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Burma government forces have overrun three Karen rebel positions in an offensive that has forced thousands of refugees across the Thai border, an aid group said, even as the rebels claimed to have kil…
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MAE SOT, Thailand (Reuters) – Myanmar’s biggest rebel group will soon abandon a stronghold on the Thai-Myanmar border after weeks of fierce fighting with government and rival Karen forces, a rebel com…
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India’s plans of reopening the historic World War II Stilwell Road, linking the country to China via Myanmar, has come a cropper with Yangon rejecting moves to allow its territory for resuming age old…
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 13:03 Rangoon (mizzima news) – Business stakeholders from Burma, China and Thailand are into discussions for Chinese investors to involve themselves in two huge hydro power dams…
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 12:38 Chiang Mai (mizzima news) – Citizens of six countries which share the Mekong River on Thursday submitted a petition with 16,000 signatures to Thailand’s Prime Minister t…
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In this photo taken Saturday, June 13, 2009, Thai soldiers patrol as Karen refugees, fled from the fighting inside Myanmar, walk along the road at the Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Salid, Thailand. Over …
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Military-ruled Myanmar is ready to host a visit by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon next month, foreign diplomats said Wednesday.A Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity beca…
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has told the Burma’s No 2 leader, Vice Snr-Gen Maung Aye, on Tuesday in Beijing that China hopes the military junta will promote democracy in Burma.
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Within the past month, two new shocking chapters of misery have opened up in Burma’s decades-long tragedy. The first is the trial, on ludicrously fabricated charges, of democracy leader Aung Sa…
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By anyone’s measure, the military government of Burma, which has been a member of Asean since 1997, has failed in these responsibilities. The farcical trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi…
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The Burmese military junta plans to resettle 200,000 Burman people in ethnic Kachin’s Hukawng Valley (also called Hugawng in Kachin) in the country’s northern Kachin State before 2010, sai…
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Bangladesh will formally complain to the United Nations against claims of India and Myanmar in a row over maritime waters in the Bay of Bengal, the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed s…
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Burma has the world’s third largest population of stateless persons according to the UN refugee agency, while at the same time Burmese refugees were last year the main beneficiaries of UN resettleme…
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoy to Myanmar have received a petition from over 670,000 people worldwide urging them to press Myanmar’s military junta to release all political pri…
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It signals an end to the old indulgence of the junta for commercial reasons, and the beginning of a new collective more responsible attitude in with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)….
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About 3.5 million Myanmars have fled the country and are now living in refugee camps or have sought employment abroad, including an estimated 150,000 in Malaysia, the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) s…
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It is amazing how India can be so blind towards developments in its western neighbour, Burma, and the ongoing political oppression there. The world’s largest democracy is doing a big disservice …
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Myanmar’s highest court said Wednesday it will allow a final appeal by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s defense lawyers for the reinstatement of two key witnesses at her trial, her law…
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The massive socio-political movement in Iran, following the highly controversial announcement Saturday declaring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the victor of that state’s presidential election, is reminisc…
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 22:08 New Delhi (Mizzima) – The ethnic Kachin resistance group – Kachin Independence Organisation is refurbishing its military in what appears to be preparation for an impend…
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:13 The Burmese military regime is allowing application for online arrival visas to attract more foreign tourists to the country but due to the restrictions of this system, o…
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 20:22 New Delhi (Mizzima news) – Burma’s High Court on Wednesday admitted the request of Aung San Suu Kyi’s legal counsels to reinstate defence witnesses, who were earlier …
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:29 Dhaka (Mizzima) – A schooner carrying food supplies for government employees’ ‘fair price shops’ in Arakan State capsized after robbers looted the goods and scutt…
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:16 Ruili (Mizzima) – To thwart residents from buying and selling land at will, authorities in Myitkyina town of Kachin state in Northern Burma have transferred the issuanc…
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GREENSBORO, N.C., June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A Celebration of World Refugee Day will be held at the Greensboro Children’s Museum from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Friday, June 19, 2009. The event is hos…
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The latest joint attacks in Karen State by Burmese and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) forces, which began on June 7, have forced an estimated 6,000 Karen people into Thai-Burmese border areas. …
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A Karen relief team based on the Thai-Burma border reported on Wednesday, June 17, that two teenaged Karen women were raped and murdered by Burmese soldiers in Kwee Law Plo village, Lu Pleh Township, …
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Burma’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether or not to allow more defense witnesses in the trial of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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By Sudha Ramachandran and Swe Win BANGALORE – The sudden collapse of an ancient temple last month – like most significant events in Myanmar – has been opened to a wide range of arcane interpret…
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:58 New Delhi (Mizzima news) – An “open and fair” trial for Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her two aides has been demanded of the Burmese military junta by five…
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