Chiang Mai– Former Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung (65), died early on Wednesday morning in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison, while under detention, family sources said. (more…)

A leader of the New Mon State Party (NMSP), an ethnic armed rebel group that has a ceasefire agreement with Burma’s ruling junta, was assassinated on Saturday by an unidentified gunman, party sources said. (more…)

The elected representative of Thaketa township constituency 2 in Rangoon division, Dr Maung Maung Latt died on 22 February at the age of 59. (more…)

Burma’s veteran ethnic politician Dr. Saw Mara Aung died on Monday evening at his Rangoon residence, political allies said. (more…)

Dr Hla Aung, elected representative for Wundwin constituency-2 and an active National League for Democracy member, passed away this morning at the age of 66. (more…)

Daw Nu Nu Aye, one of the patrons and founders of democratic veterans, ex-member of All Burma Students Democratic Front and veteran of Burma’s air force, died in Thai border town Mae Sot, at the age of 70. (more…)

The well-known Burmese artist Wathone passed away this morning from lung problems at his house in Thingangyun township, Rangoon division, at the age of 61. (more…)

U Han Lin, who led the “long march to freedom and democracy” campaign in 2005 to highlight the plight of Burma, died from lung cancer on 26 September at the age of 57. (more…)

Famous actress and singer of yesteryears Daw May Shin, holder of the ‘Wunna Kyaw Htin’ title, died at her residence in Mandalay on Wednesday at 11:30 p.m. (more…)

Min Thein Kha, the brilliant creator of the sleuth ‘Surveillance Hnin Maung,’ passed away at the age of 70 today (1st August 2008). Born Maung Aung Tun, he wrote under the pseudonym Min Thein Kha since 1976. He wrote about a hundred novels and numerous short stories of which Manusari, Punna Ba Kun and Sanay Maung Maung were very popular among his readers. (more…)

The chairman of the Karen National Union ethnic rebel group, Saw Ba Thin Sein, died Thursday morning. (more…)

Renowned Burmese monk U Kovida passed away peacefully on Tuesday at 13:07 Eastern Standard Time in New York. He was 81 and had been hospitalized that morning suffering from heart disease. (more…)

Ludu Daw Amar, one of Burma’s most celebrated writers and journalists, passed away in the cardiac ward of Mandalay general hospital this morning at the age of 93, her son Ko Nyein Chan said. (more…)

The well-known Burmese journalist Kyemon U Thaung, who wrote under the name Aung Bala, has died in hospital in the United States, at the age of 82. (more…)

Sai Htee Saing, one of the most celebrated singers in Burma, died early Monday morning in Rangoon General Hospital. He was 58.
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Veteran journalist Ralph Bachoe, 63, a native of Burma, died on Wednesday at Theptarin Hospital in Bangkok after a long illness.
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One-time drug warlord Khun Sa, variously described as among the world’s most wanted men and a great liberation fighter, has died in Burma at the age of 74, an associate said Tuesday.
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Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Soe Win died Friday in a military hospital after a long illness, state media announced. He was 59.
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Burma’s ailing Prime Minister Lt Gen Soe Win has died at the military hospital in Mingalardon, Rangoon on Tuesday, sources said.
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Maran Zau Nan, Chairman of the Kachin Nationals Consultative Assembly (KNCA) died of cancer on Friday at a private clinic in Rangoon, former capital of Burma.
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