The Chin people of Burma, represented by Chin National Front, became the 52nd member of the international organization claiming to fight for the Right to Self Determination of the oppressed peoples all over the world at the three-day session of its General Assembly at The Hague, 24-26 June, according to reports from Europe.

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Bangkok: A summit of the six-nation Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), scheduled next month in China’s Yunnan province, has refused to invite civil society organizations to the meeting, organizers said on Wednesday.

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June 28: Sixty-eight Burmese activists, including three women, arrested in Kuala Lumpur in connection with an unauthorized demonstration calling for the release of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi were charged Wednesday, said one of the lawyers representing them.

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Beijing: China’s export to and import from Myanmar reached 119,377,000 US dollars in April 2005, and the trade in January-April reached 394,955,000 US dollars, up 7.2 percent year on year.

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Yangon: Myanmar is encouraging the development of cottage industries, urging operators to cooperate with the government to have access to facilities provided by related authorities for improved production.

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Bangkok: Southeast Asia’s one-time opium kingdoms of Laos and Myanmar dramatically reduced their narcotics production in 2004, and the region could see itself opium-free in coming years, the United Nations said Wednesday in its world drug report.

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Burma on Monday handed over nearly 100 Chinese prisoners to authorities in Yunnan province via the Kachin State border town of Laiza, according to officials at the Chinese embassy in Rangoon and local ethnic leaders.

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Guwahit: A non-governmental organization in northeast India urged the government on Wednesday not to deport around 40 Myanmarese insurgents to Myanmar, saying they would be executed by the ruling junta.

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June 28: Residents of Htan Manaing Village, Kawmoo Township, Rangoon Division are having serious cocerns for their local heroine Su Su Nway who successfully sued her local authorities for forced labour practices. The village authorities took revenge on Su Su Nway by counter-accusing her of threatening and swearing at them and taking her to the court in Kawmoo, according to the villagers. The court will decide on 30 June, whether Su Su Nway should be charged and tried.

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Yangon: Myanmar is encouraging the development of cottage industries, urging operators to cooperate with the government to have access to facilities provided by related authorities for improved production.

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Bangkok: Southeast Asia’s one-time opium kingdoms of Laos and Myanmar dramatically reduced their narcotics production in 2004, and the region could see itself opium-free in coming years, the United Nations said Wednesday in its world drug report. (more…)

More than 500,000 displaced people in eastern Burma were living in relocation camps or in hiding at the end of 2004, according to a report issued by the Norwegian Refugee Council.“The military regime’s objective of increasing control over minority areas through a policy of forced assimilation and repression of autonomy movements has resulted in decades of conflict that has devastated the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians,” said the report. (more…)