Yangon: Myanmar has introduced laws prohibiting the recruitment of child soldiers, state media reported, though the junta said critics have exaggerated the extent of the practice.
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Yangon: Eight men who successfully appealed against death sentences for high treason against Myanmar’s military regime are to launch a new court challenge against their jail terms, a lawyer said Wednesday.
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Yangon: Myanmar has started building an underground museum to display its world’s largest jade stone in the country’s northernmost Kachin state, a local news journal reported Wednesday.
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August 3: Villagers from southern Ye flee to avoid human rights violation by the Burma Army
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Stilwell Road passes through China and Myanmar and if it could be restored, movement of goods among the three countries will be eased to a great extent.
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Phnom Penh: Cambodia’s prime minister urged Southeast Asian nations Wednesday to block the participation of 10 new EU members in an upcoming summit if military-ruled Myanmar is not allowed to join.
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called on leaders from South and Southeast Asian countries to join forces while building their respective economies to make the seven-nation gathering “more than a small blip” on the radar in the eyes of the rest of the world.
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Four companies come off ‘Dirty List’
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Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association today condemned the arrest of documentary film-maker Lazing La Htoi on 27 July in Myitkyina (in the northern state of Kichin) as “a new attempt to suppress the news” and called on the head of the Burmese government, Gen. Than
Shwe, to release him at once.
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