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    January 20, 2012in Health, News2by HANNA HINDSTROM
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    Famine threat looms in Chin state

    Bad harvest triggers renewed food shortages in impoverished northwestern state as World Food Programme project comes under fire

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    October 24, 2011in News, Politics3by SHWE AUNG / DVB
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    Chin target govt with anti-poverty plea

    Academics warn of exodus of youth from Chin state unless the government takes seriously the threat posed by endemic poverty

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    September 17, 2008in Uncategorized0by Staff Reporter
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    Food shortages drive Chin residents to Mizoram

    Sep 17, 2008 (DVB), A man and a woman from Ngafaipee village in Htantalan township, Chin State, died from hunger and exhaustion on Monday after carrying food supplies from India’s…

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    February 27, 2008in Uncategorized0by Staff Reporter
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    Heavy tax burden adds to Chin food crisis

    Feb 27, 2008 (DVB), The Chin National Front has criticised the excessive taxes levied by the Burmese government on ethnic Chin people who are already facing severe food shortages. The…

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