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| By ALEX ELLGEE |
| A reporter for The Irrawaddy crosses the border into Karen State and speaks with the director of the Free Burma Rangers while the ranger trains new teams near the front lines. |
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| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Despite complaints from some of the party's youth members, Aung San Suu Kyi says she won't move to sideline senior leaders of her National League for Democracy. |
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| By WAI MOE |
| Burma's junta leader tells cadets at an elite military academy that the armed forces must continue to grow in strength. |
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| By JAMIE STENGLE |
| Former first lady Laura Bush, a longtime advocate of free elections in Burma, speaks with the country's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time. |
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| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| Burma has been accused by the United Nations of dramatically raising cultivation of poppies for opium in 2010. |
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| By YENI |
| Burma's censors have been ordered to block efforts by privately owned publications to increase their coverage of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's activities. |
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| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The KNU's Battalion 202 has launched a short attack on the Burmese army base of Manerplaw, which was formerly the KNU's headquarters. |
Renegade DKBA commander assertive as he tells DVB from the front line that faction is prepared for guerilla war across Burma if the Burmese army continues its 'offensive'
Leaked cable reveals India's views on Aung San Suu Kyi and the junta number 1's extraordinary travel 'arrangements' for his 2004 visit to the world's largest democracy
Farmer who claims his land and property was destroyed by Rangoon authorities is being tried on charges of trespassing
Report condemns Norway fund’s Burma investments
(Analysis) Norway’s government has been accused of being “complicit in land confiscation, ...
16 political prisoners released
Sixteen political prisoners who had served their full terms were released today from Burmese jails, ...
WikiLeaks: Junta ‘might go nuclear for US attention’
Members of Burmese dictator Than Shwe’s entourage during a 2004 trip to New Delhi, told the Indian ...
Heavy rain spoils rice harvest, Mon farmers say
Unseasonal heavy rain in the past week during the harvest had spoiled a large portion of the rice crop ...
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