Yangon: The home and labour ministers in Myanmar’s government have been “permitted to retire” in the latest reshuffle following the ousting of prime minister General Khin Nyunt last month, state media announced late Friday.
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As evidence mounts that the military junta has reneged on ceasefire agreements with Karen rebels, Phil Thornton follows two wounded innocents, a mother and her son, on a harrowing two-day flight to safety
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November 4: Yangon: Myanmar’s beleaguered opposition party has praised the way the U.S. presidential election was held, saying their military-ruled country should emulate America.
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Guwahati: India’s army has launched an operation against rebel bases in the remote northeast and neighbouring Myanmar has sealed its border to stop the entry of fleeing insurgents, a spokesman said Friday.
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Tak: Used car exports from Thailand to Burma, illegal under Burmese trade law, may come to an end with the new Rangoon government’s crackdown on corruption and smuggling.
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Hundreds of factories are fuelled by a low-paid and dissatisfied workforce
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Yangon: Thai entrepreneurs doing business in Myanmar are making preparations for the establishment of the Myanmar-Thai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) in the country, the local 7-Day news journal reported Friday.
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Yangon: The Bank of India (BOI) is seeking to open a representative office in Myanmar to carry out bank transactions dealing with imports and exports between the two countries, a local news journal reported.
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Brussels: The EU’s common position on Burma is nothing short of “seriously inadequate”, said the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in a statement
released today. The two trade union bodies, which together represent over 150 million workers, said that the EU’s position still has a long way to go in terms of fully prohibiting multinational enterprises from having business links with Burma (Myanmar), and that the EU is therefore failing to fulfil its responsibility.
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November 4: With US President George W Bush declaring victory and announcing a new “season of hope”, the conventional thinking in Bangkok is that this will be an opportunity for the two countries to turn over a new leaf.
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