Military-ruled Myanmar on Monday freed hundreds of prisoners on the eve of independence day and an official said all 5,588 inmates involved in the latest release would be out of jail by the end of the day.

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Details of the destruction in Burma are only just beginning to emerge, a full week after the tsunami struck the highly-secretive country.

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The first calls for outside help from the tsunami victims inside the secretive, military-controlled state of Burma were so impeccably polite that they were almost apologetic.

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January 2: Damien McElroy, the only western journalist to enter the dictatorship since the earthquake, reports on the true death toll in the hidden disaster zone

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January 2: A small volcano erupted in Arakan State just before the Andaman Sea earthquake on 26 December, said an official living near the incident.

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Tourist arrivals in Myanmar rose by 8.7 percent to 620,000 in the first three quarters (April-December) of the present fiscal year 2004-05 compared with the same period of the previous year, according to a latest report of the local news journal “7-Day”.

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January 2: Myanmar is encouraging foreign entrepreneurs to make full investment in restaurant business to help promote its hotels and tourism industry, a local news journal reported in its latest issue.

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January 2: Myanmar is to build a deep-sea port in Kyaukphyu, western coastal Rakhine state, to facilitate transit trade through the country, the Flower News journal reported in its latest issue.

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Thai survivors of Asia’s tsunami disaster have complained they are second-class victims, with foreign tourists getting the best care. Now aid officials say a third class of victims in Thailand has emerged: migrant workers from Myanmar.

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January 2: The tsunami last week probably killed more people in the southernmost area of Burma than were reported dead by the country’s ruling military junta, but the region has not been independently surveyed because of tightly restricted access, experts say.

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It was an eventful year for India and Burma.

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January 5: As a solidarity with Asia, a new website has just been launched to gather all the information available about the Tsunami disaster in Asia.

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