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We Burmese celebrated January 4 as the 60th anniversary of country’s independence from United Kingdom. However, the question is haunting our minds that are we really free citizens? The military rule has brought the country to violence, poverty and...
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Myanmar’s main opposition party says it has been told that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit in December to hold talks on the country’s...
made popular Aug 20 2008
AP, Beijing
A report says about 1,200 people have evacuated their homes after a 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern China near its border with Myanmar.
made popular Aug 20 2008
AP, Yangon
U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Myanmar’s capital Monday on a five-day mission to promote national reconciliation and political reform in the...
made popular Aug 18 2008
AP, Yangon
Myanmar’s main opposition party said Sunday that it hopes a visiting U.N. special envoy can help restart talks between detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu...
made popular Aug 17 2008
AP, Yangon
Five activists have been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for marching on the 20th anniversary of pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the Myanmar’s...
made popular Aug 16 2008
AP, Bangkok
Severe flooding triggered by torrential rains has struck areas of Myanmar still recovering from a cyclone that killed more than 84,000 people, a state-run newspaper...
made popular Aug 16 2008
AP, Yangon
Thousands of sapphires, rubies, diamonds, emeralds, jade and other gems glitter in long glass display cases as merchants haggle with professional buyers _ most of them...
made popular Aug 12 2008
Several thousand people in Burma (also called Myanmar) were severely affected as they completely lost their homes and livelihood after Cyclone Nargis devastated the...
made popular Aug 11 2008
AP, Yangon
Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met with her lawyer for the first time in five years, one of her colleagues said Sunday.
made popular Aug 10 2008
AP, Yangon
Myanmar authorities have released 43 demonstrators who held one of the country’s few protests marking the anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, an...
made popular Aug 9 2008
AP, Yangon
Twenty years after it violently suppressed a bid by more than a million peaceful protesters to restore democracy, Myanmar’s military junta was on high alert...
made popular Aug 8 2008
AP, Tha Song Yang
First lady Laura Bush, meeting with refugees who fled a brutal campaign by Myanmar’s military junta, urged China and other countries on Thursday to join the U.S....
made popular Aug 7 2008
AP, Yangon
A United Nations human rights envoy left Tuesday to inspect the devastation from the cyclone that struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river delta three months ago.
made popular Aug 5 2008
AP, Yangon
A famous Myanmar comedian and three other activists who helped deliver relief supplies to cyclone victims could be imprisoned for two years on charges of causing public...
made popular Aug 2 2008
AP, Washington
President Bush signed legislation Tuesday to punish Myanmar’s brutal ruling regime by freezing assets of political and military leaders there and banning the...
made popular Jul 29 2008
AP, Washington
The Bush administration is imposing financial sanctions on companies suspected of being owned or controlled by the military-run government of Myanmar.
made popular Jul 29 2008
AP, Bangkok
As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government’s foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said...
made popular Jul 25 2008
AP, Singapore
Australia announced Wednesday an extra $29 million in aid for survivors of Myanmar’s May cyclone, but pressed its recalcitrant military junta to democratize...
made popular Jul 23 2008
AP, Singapore
Myanmar’s junta has indicated it will oppose any effort to give a Southeast Asian human rights body the power to monitor or investigate rights violations in the...
made popular Jul 22 2008
AP, Singapore
A new U.N.-led report says the damage from Myanmar’s Cyclone Nargis in May is estimated to be $4 billion.The report released Monday says this includes $1.7...
made popular Jul 21 2008
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The military junta ruled neighboring country of India, currently under crisis due to pro-democracy demonstrations is reportedly using all methods to recruit soldiers...
made popular Oct 31 2007
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