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Pre-paid SIM Card Sales Drop after Bombings
Sim :: Russia | 3 years ago
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Following further restrictions in mid-April, the pre-paid phone market was temporarily halted and prices increased, according to businessmen who sell SIM cards. �Before the bomb blasts, one pre-paid SIM card was 24,000 kyat (US $24). But now the same
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Irrawaddy: DKBA unlikely to reunite with KNLA – Alex Ellgee
Bangkok :: Thailand | 3 years ago
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Burmese military junta and now controls most of the Thai-Burmese border area that was previously KNU territory. It claims to have 6,000 troops, with a planned increase to 9,000, making it Burma’s second-largest armed ethnic militia...Saw Lar Pwe, the
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Thai army readies refugee ‘protection’ areas
Mae Sot :: Thailand | 3 years ago
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Mae Sot – The Thai army has established “protection” areas close to the Burmese border near Mae Sot, anticipating a flood of refugees as Burma’s ruling military junta prepares for elections this year. As many as 10,000 Burmese are soon expected to
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Troops break from DKBA, head for border
Mae Sot :: Thailand | 3 years ago
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Mae Sot (Mizzima) – Hundreds of Democratic Karen Buddhist Army troops are reported to have broken their alliance with the Burma Army and are heading for the Thai border, with State Peace and Development Council units in hot pursuit, Karen National
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Election posturing in Myanmar
Yangon :: Myanmar | 3 years ago
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The election laws promulgated in March do not allow prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 supporters to take part in the election. The 2008 constitution prohibits electoral participation of those married to foreign nationals...Suu
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Myanmar ceasefires on a tripwire
Bangkok :: Thailand | 3 years ago
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Yet another deadline has passed for ethnic ceasefire groups in Myanmar to join the military as part of a new government-controlled Border Guard Force (BGF). With the rainy season approaching and a transition from military to civilian rule underway,
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Suspected artillery strike wounds four at dam project
Brussels :: Belgium | 3 years ago
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The injured were being treated at one of two Taungoo Township hospitals. “We are not yet clear about [details of] the attack … whether it was a clash or an attack on the project to teach the junta a lesson for going ahead with the project against the
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New Mon State Party prepares for war
Bangkok :: Thailand | 3 years ago
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The New Mon State Party is making preparations in case war breaks out between it and the Burmese Army, after its militia under ceasefire rejected the junta’s order for it to be brought under the command of the Border Guard Force, a spokesman said.
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Karen Peace Council Rejects BGF Proposal
Bangkok :: Thailand | 3 years ago
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The letter stated that in an April 7 meeting in Moulmein, capital of Mon State, between Lt-Gen Ye Myint, the chief of Military Affairs Security, and the KPC executive committee members, pressure was put on the KPC to become a �Burma Army Militia
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Bombs kill 9 at Myanmar New Year water festival
Yangon :: Myanmar | 3 years ago
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Myanmar (AP) — Three bomb blasts at a holiday festival killed nine people in Myanmar's biggest city on Thursday, the deadliest attack in five years in the country ruled by an iron-fisted regime. No indication was given as to who
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