Rangoon on edge after another bombing
In a third such incident in Rangoon in a week, four bombs exploded yesterday at the Immigration Department in South Dagon Township.
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Sino-Burmese border market shelled
The attackers used heavy weapons, most likely mortar or artillery fire, damaging some commercial buildings.
Kokang conflict: Chinese beef up vigilance at border
Chinese armed forces are on high alert in the Sino-Burmese border region as clashes between Burmese soldiers and rebels continue in Kokang.
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Two injured in Hpakant bombing
A bomb explodes outside a hotel in Hpakant in Kachin State, injuring a father and his daughter on a moped.
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Taungoo bomber sentenced to death by hanging
Saw Htun Htun was found guilty of the murder of two persons in connection with the bombing of a guesthouse in Taungoo in 2013.
Burma to form counter-terrorism unit
The Burmese government plans to set up a national counter-terrorism body in the near future to protect the country from extremist groups, according to a senior police official.
Ethnic Karen sentenced to 10 years for Taungoo bombing
Court sentences man to ten years for the 2013 bombing of a guesthouse which left two dead.
Karen man charged in connection with Taungoo bombing
A police officer from Taungoo township in Pegu division has told DVB that a 34-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a bombing in the town last month. However, a KNU spokesman says he is innocent.
Bombings were an attempt to deter foreign investment, says Burma’s police chief
The director-general of the Burmese police force says eight suspects are in custody following a spate of bombings which left three people dead and several injured.
One killed in Shan state bombing
Burma woke up this morning to news that yet another bomb blast had taken a life, this time in the northern Shan state town of Namhkam which lies close to the Chinese border.
Bomb blast in Kachin capital leaves three wounded
An explosion in northern Burma’s Kachin state near a police traffic booth this morning injured three people, while no groups have claimed responsibility
Bomb hits checkpoint; one official dead
One immigration official is dead after an explosion rocked a checkpoint in northern Shan state, while no groups have claimed responsibility for the attack
Bomber kills Kachin orphans, refugees
Suspect targets home in Kachin capital of Myitkyina three days after a deadly blast hits a police station in northern Shan state
100 Arakanese arrested, some tortured
Nearly 100 swept up in wave of Rangoon arrests but later released after police find no link between detainees and February bombing
2 killed in Myawaddy bomb attack
Two people were killed and seven were injured when a bomb exploded in the border town of Myawaddy in eastern Karen state on Friday
Rangoon bomb suspect denied legal aid
Lawyer for Phyo Wei Aung says that client has been held for over a month without charge and under Burmese law should have been freed yesterday
MP-elect interrogated over bombing links
Oct 10, 2008 (DVB), Elected representative Ohn Kyaing, who led the National League for Democracy's cyclone relief efforts, has been interrogated every night since his arrest on 1 October, according[…]
