Yangon: Myanmar’s main pro-democracy party has launched a nationwide campaign seeking the immediate and unconditional release of its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other political detainees, the party’s spokesman said Wednesday.
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Despite the lid being tightly kept on the project, the dam in Shan State’s part of the Salween is doubtlessly on the way to becoming a reality, according to an informed source.
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Sangkhlaburi: Civilians are taken as porters to walk along with the Burma Army during military offensive against Karen rebels three days ago.
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Four days after three major clashes that took place between the Burma Army and the Shan State Army “South,” 6-7 August, the battlefield across Chiangmai is deceptively quiet, while reports of Burmese reinforcements keep coming in dispatches, according to sources, both Thai and Shan, on
the border.
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) fears a secret HIV epidemic among one million Karen refugees along the Thai-Burma border.
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The Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate Prosecutors’ Office yesterday charged Zhao Gaoming with drug trafficking, alleging he was the ringleader of a drug ring based in Myanmar.
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Cross-border trade between China and Burma has plunged since Burma increased its commercial tax on all imported goods, said a Burmese trader on the border.
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Burma’s prime minister has held talks with his Cambodian counterpart in Phnom Penh, trying to shore up support for Burma’s attendance at a regional meeting with the European Union in October.
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Burma is a very attractive investment package. Not only is it beautiful, but rich in natural resources as well. It has vast cultivable land, long coast line, abundant forests, complex river system, and plentiful minerals and gems. But what Burma needs to reap the benefits of such resources is capital and technology.
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