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Residents in Mandalay who have close contact with Mandalay's Obo prison say that Ashin Gambira, a leading monk during the Saffron Revolution, is on hunger strike....
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Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was on Sunday named winner of the 'Trumpet of Conscience' award for courageously leading the struggle for democracy and human rights.......
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Fierce fighting is taking place between the Shan State Army (South) and the Burmese Arny this month in three townships in southern Shan State, an SSA(S) official said. ...
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The Burmese military junta authorities have beefed up security in Rangoon by setting up many checkpoints at busy intersections and crowded places, where commuters are being checked....
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Thailand's Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva has assured local rights groups that he will address the problem of the alleged abuse of 400 Rohingya refugees from Burma and Bangladesh......
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India's Vice President Hamid Ansari is set to visit neighbouring military-ruled Burma, in a bid to further strengthen bilateral cooperation between both countries, according to reports....
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Thailand should stop arresting and pushing back refugees and migrants who are illegally entering its waters, a United States-based refugee rights organization urged on Thursday....
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The weather is getting cold these days and in some States and Divisions, it is colder than previous years, local people said. In Myitkyina in Kachin State, the northern tip of Burma, Loi Lem in Shan State, ...
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Soldiers of the Karen National Liberation Army's Special Battalion 103 are reinforcing troops of the KNLA's Sixth Brigade's 201st Battalion just south of Thailand's border town of Mae Sot. ...
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The weblog of venerable Burmese Buddhist monk, Ashin Mettacara, has bagged the "Best Asia Blog" award for 2008. Publisher of the Weblog Awards, which puts up an online poll on various categories of weblogs, Kevin Aylward,.....
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In a rare case, a child with his brain outside the skull, badly needs financial assistance as surgical expenses, his parents, a Burmese refugee couple from Malaysia said. ...
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The United States has frozen assets of two Burmese businessmen and their companies for aiding the military rulers of the country, which is internationally condemned for abusing......
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Indonesia has indicated it is holding discussions to send back nearly 200 Burmese and Bangladeshi boatpeople, stranded off Sabang Island near Aceh province in early January, a Foreign Affairs Ministry official said....
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Burma in 2008 was one of the worse violators of Human Rights, when its ruling junta refused assistance to its citizens, faced with severe humanitarian crisis caused by Cyclone Nargis,...
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A 'Cold Wave' is likely to sweep Burma by the last week of January because of a change in the course of the winds, an official at Burma's Meteorological department said....
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A 'Cold Wave' is likely to sweep Burma by the last week of January because of a change in the course of the winds, an official at Burma's Meteorological department said....
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Burma's military junta on Wednesday released six members of the opposition party, who had been arrested and detained for two weeks, for staging protests calling for the release of detained Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a party official said....
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(News brief) Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Thailand's new Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Wednesday that it was time there was change in military-ruled Burma....
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Burma's military junta authorities have sentenced a student activist, Bo Min Yu Ko, to a total of 104 years in prison, the longest term so far, early in January, the Thailand based Assistant Association of Political Prisoners (Burma) said....
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To promote production of gems and jewellery, Burma's Ministry of Mines said it is allocating six blocks in three states to local entrepreneurs to mine gems, an official at the ministry said....
