Cartoonist Chit Swe, a member of Myanmar’s pro-democracy opposition, has been sentenced to one month in prison for defying orders of the military government, two rights groups said Thursday.
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Myanmar’s ruling junta has reshuffled powerful military leaders for the second time in less than three months, a source close to the military said Thursday, with government ministers also changing posts.
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Burmese authorities tightened security at the head office of a recently shut down private bank in Rangoon.
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Nasaka bases along the western border of Burma are being rebuilt starting from this month. The bases were abandoned after the purge of General Khin Nyunt and Nasaka officials, most of whom were believed to be followers of him.
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Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) has ‘terminated the duties’ of Minister for Education U Than Aung and ‘permitted’ Than Shwe and Brig-Gen Pyi Sone of Prime Minister’s Office ‘to retire from duties on 11 August.
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August 10: Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), has been making reparations for the resumption of the so-called National Convention so that it could be reconvened before the end of 2005, according to a report by the New Light of Myanmar.
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A team of Malaysian lawyers is urging the Attorney General to drop a case involving 64 Burmese activists arrested while demonstrating outside the Burmese embassy in Kuala Lumpur in June.
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August 10: Murder cases have been occurring regularly among Mon migrant workers employed on rubber plantations in southern Thailand due to price increases for rubber.
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