Thai plans for road hit pothole by Daniel Pedersen
May 24, 2012 By Daniel Pedersen THAI investors looking to bankroll a road linking Mae Sot with Pa-an in Karen State Burma may be forced to cool their heels or face renewed hostilities as they attempt...
View ArticleNorway’s deputy FM to visit displaced Karen people
Norway’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Torgeir Larsen, will lead a delegation to the Bago regional town of Kyauk Kyi to meet with internally displaced Karen people today. A number of local Karen...
View ArticleSino Burma border: Traffic between Lashio and Muse has been suspended by...
29.may 2012 Traffic between Lashio and Muse, the Sino-Burmese border, has been suspended by continued conflict between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) since yesterday. Also...
View ArticleShan leader Hkun Tun Oo, to receive US congressional democracy award
Hkun Tun Oo, whose party the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) won statewide in the 1990 elections, has been selected as a recipient of the US congressional Democracy Award, according to...
View ArticleBurma -Myanmar Army conveys apology to SSA
The Burma/Myanmar Army has recently conveyed an official apology to the Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) after a firefight broke out last week in Pongpakhem...
View Articleကရင္လက္နက္ကိုင္ ခ်င္းခ်င္း ျပန္လည္ ပစ္ခတ္မွဳ မျဖစ္ၾကရန္ တိုက္တြန္း
ဗုဒၶဘာသာႏွင့္ ခရစ္ယာန္ ကရင္ ဘာသာေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားက ဦးစီးၿပီး ကရင္ လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႔အခ်င္းခ်င္း ျပန္လည္ ပစ္ခတ္မွဳ မျဖစ္ရန္ ဂတိဂ၀တ္ ေတာင္းသည့္ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ တရပ္ကို ယမာန္ေန႔၌ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္...
View ArticleSuu Kyi vows to protect migrant workers
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday pledged to better protect the rights of impoverished migrant workers from Burma as she spoke to a crowd of thousands of supporters in central Thailand...
View ArticleKaren Arm Groups unite by kwekalu
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View ArticleDASSK Timeplan Thailand-June 2 – 9-12 am to Mae La refugee camp
May 31 – June 1 – WEF and other bilateral meetings in BKK. June 2 – 9-12 am to Mae La refugee campMay 2 – 1-3.45 pm – Meeting ethnic leaders in Mae Sod. She will also meets Dr. Cynthia briefly. 5 pm –...
View ArticleNew Burma peace negotiating team arrives in KIO Kachin State
31.may 2012 A new peace negotiating team, led by Burmese Railways Minister Aung Min, arrived at Mai Ja Yang, the second largest town under Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Kachin state, at 3 pm...
View ArticleKIA 9th Brigade ambush government military trucks
Two Burmese officers and four soldiers were killed after Kachin Independence Army (KIA), 9th Battalion, ambushed and destroyed two Burmese military trucks near Nampaka, on the Mandalay-Muse trade route...
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