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As night closes in on Noe Poh refugee camp, about five hours south of Mae Sot in northern Thailand bordering town with Burma, the road that skirts its edge clears of people....
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The United Nations special envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari arrived in the military ruled Southeast Asian country on Saturday for the seventh time to push for political reconciliation....
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Posters with the names and photographs of seven women wanted for human trafficking have appeared in Laiza in northern Burma on the China border. The 6'x5' posters on the notice board read 'Beware! Human traffickers selling women' in Kachin language....
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At least five million people out of a population of 55 million in military ruled Burma are living below the food poverty line, said the United Nations. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) in a joint report '...
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A Media Watch group Reporters Without Border (RSF) has released a petition for the freedom of two well known Burmese bloggers, who were sentenced to long prison terms, by Burma's ruling junta....
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Burma's military generals in a secret meeting warned commanders and officers to beware of Bangladesh in the wake of a maritime dispute between the two countries in November....
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A veteran ethnic Shan politician, Shwe Ohn on Thursday said he and his friends have formed a group that will be transformed into a political party to contest the ensuing 2010 general elections. ...
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(News Brief) It will cost more than US $ 31 million to rebuild 77 school buildings which were devastated by the deadly Nargis cyclone last year, according to official estimates....
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Burma on Friday, refused to recognize Rohingya - Muslim minorities, as citizens of the country and said they are not included in the multi-ethnic groups recorded by the state, the government mouthpiece, New Light of Myanmar Newspaper said....
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Burma on Friday, refused to recognize Rohingya - Muslim minorities, as citizens of the country and said they are not included in the multi-ethnic groups recorded by the state, the government mouthpiece, New Light of Myanmar Newspaper said. ...
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In the minutes of a leaked secret meeting, a leading military commander admitted that the Burmese armed forces are becoming more indisciplined and corrupt besides being inefficient....
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In a major development the minutes of a leaked secret meeting of Burma's Army Commanders said the leadership of the main opposition party – the National League for Democracy......
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HIV/AIDS patients being treated in Rangoon have alleged that the Health Department has restricted their stay in the former capital Rangoon. he patients, who have completed their treatment in Rangoon Division North Okkalapa Township Wabargi Hospital,.....
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(Commentary) The Burmese regime has claimed to hold a new election in 2010 to facilitate a formation of a civil-military government in accordance with the military-orchestrated constitution which was approved in a widely slated referendum held last year....
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The police seized a packet of heroin from a container loaded on a ship at the Asia World Port Terminal in Rangoon on Saturday, according to an eyewitness. A port duty staff said, two police personnel stopped a ship and seized a container, ......
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The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Thailand has given it the green signal to allow access to a few Rohingya boat people, who have been charged with illegally entering the country, after Thai officials were accused of mistreating boatpeople....
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The 'National League for Democracy' despatched a letter yesterday to the Burmese military junta demanding that they be allowed to meet their leader Aung San Suu Kyi before she meets Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, the UN special envoy on Burma. ...
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(Commentary) The Burmese regime has claimed to hold a new election in 2010 to facilitate a formation of a civil-military government in accordance with the military-orchestrated constitution which was approved in a widely slated referendum held last year,....
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The Chin National Army, the armed wing of ethnic the Chin rebel group – the Chin National Front - on Wednesday vehemently denied accusations of abusing the rights of Chin people,......
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The Burmese military junta is constructing a military airbase for jet fighters near Buthidaung town, in Burma's western Arakan, state sources said. Khaing Mrat Kyaw, editor of Arakan news agency 'Narinjara' in exil,... ...
