Padoh David Taw, a Karen leader, died tonight at 10:30pm in Mingalardon military hospital in Rangoon. Padoh David Taw, aged 65, passed away after suffering from a long illness.
A 22-member delegation of senior US military officials have arrived in Burma to engage top military officials there on working more closely with the US.
Burma’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Pary (USDP) is expected to transform itself and elect new leaders to decide its policies for 2015, as it opened its first party conference in Naypyitaw on Sunday.
Col Chit Swe’s most outstanding attribute was his loyalty to the late Shan resistance leader Gen Gawn Zerng aka Mo Heng (1926-1991) whom he had served with since 1967, and the Shan cause for freedom that began in 1958.
Bad weather has closed schools and is making life miserable for residents in Umphiem Mai refugees camp that is located on the Thai side of the border with Burma.
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