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A United Kingdom based campaign group has urged the British government to investigate UK registered insurance companies to check whether they have committed financial crimes......
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Over 20 convicts who broke out from Pyapon prison when Cyclone Nargis lashed the region have been rearrested, according to the police. The deadly cyclone Nargis, which hit the region on an unprecedented scale on May 2-3 last year,...
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Five military trucks, believed to be capable of carrying up to 100 tons in weight, were driven to the Burmese side of the border from China through the Sino-Burmese border gate, eyewitnesses said. ...
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The 'National Coalition Government of Union of Burma' (NCGUB) in exile will elect its new Prime Minister at a meeting to be held in Ireland this month. Dr. San Aung, one of the Council of Ministers of NCGUB, said that the MPs in exile......
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(Interview) The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) will not be transformed into a political party to contest the planned 2010 general election, however civilians from the party.....
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In the run-up to the junta's general election in 2010, a pro-regime party has launched its poll campaign in Burma's north western Chin state. Ling Ha, organizational in-charge of the National Unity Party (NUP) of Hakha town, capital of Chin state, ...
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Gearing up for the ensuing general election that the ruling junta has proposed for 2010, a few politicians in Bogale Town in Irrawaddy division held a meeting on Monday....
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A United States-based Freedom House in its annual global release on freedom in the world, has ranked Burma among the 'worst of the worst' countries, where civilians enjoy negligible political and civil liberties....
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(Editorial) After the unexpected slump in prices in the global bean and pulses market, many future traders were in trouble with liquidity crunch and finally had to abscond from fraud and cheating charges....
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(News Brief) Burma's popular rock star, Layphyu, who had remained out of the public eye for over three years, will finally make a comeback, when he and the prominent rock band – Iron Cross – team up again to perform at a show later this month in Manda...
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(News brief) Despite wanting to witness changes in neighbouring Burma, Thailand's new premier Abhisit Vejajjiva on Monday said, his government will not follow the western style of imposing economic sanctions. ...
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Nigeria is making a "big mistake" by giving a donation of half a million US dollars to Burma's military government in aid of cyclone victims, as the donation is unlikely to reach the targeted population, according to a UK-based campaign group....
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The Burmese military junta has intervened and imposed curfew in an oilfield, after the dispute between a private oil company and local oil producers in Myaing Township, Magwe Division in central Burma....
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Two Singaporean activists were arrested after staging a protest on Monday against the government's rejection of the extension of work permits to Burmese nationals....
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Burma is in urgent need of mainstream political figures who are capable of shaping unified public opinion, which will allow the country to take up a really democratic direction in the future even after the proposed general election in 2010....
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Burma's ethnic Karen rebels are facing another daunting challenge, as a Burmese military campaign designed to hunt out opposition forces and put an end to the world's longest running civil war ......
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Family members of political prisoners have had to return from journeys to remote prisons without ever having a chance to meet with those detained, a result of the latest hardship brought against political prisoners by Burma's ruling military......
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The Weblog of a veteran Burmese Buddhist monk, Ashin Mattacara, which contains writings on Burma, has been selected among the finalists for the 'Best Asian Bolg' Award for 2008....
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Aping a recent diktat against the country's Christian community, authorities have summoned and warned leaders of Burma's Muslim community not to worship in residential flats. ...
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A fresh offensive has broken out along the Thai-Burmese border between ethnic Karen guerillas of the Karen National Union (KNU) and a joint force of Burmese Army troops and those from the Karen splinter group Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), sources...
