Authorities in northern Shan State has since 2 September been reshuffling the headmen of neighborhoods in each town in preparation for the upcoming constitutional referendum and the ensuing general elections next year, report sources from the border:
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A Burmese patrol from Light Infantry Battalion 246 based in Kunhing township, Southern Shan State, led by Sergeant Aung Kyaw Moe, shot a villager to death in Laikam on July 3, said a source from Kunhing.
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Yangon: An enigmatic smile appears on his wrinkled face and his faded eyes shine brightly as his fingers caress the ivory keys of the one musical instrument he truly loves, his piano.
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The Thai-Burma Border Consortium has promised to monitor closely the rations it hands out in border refugee camps following complaints that some canned food had exceeded its “sell-by date” and had perished.
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Russia’s biggest arms trader, Rosoboronexport, is planning to open an office in Burma before the end of the year according to a company source.
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New York: South Korea’s top envoy to the United Nations said Tuesday that the next head of the world body must come from Asia.
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Bangkok: Worried that North Korea’s heated nuclear row with the US could end in war, sending millions of refugees across its border, China nudged its Stalinist ally to the negotiating table. Burma, even less stable, could cause China similar trouble. It is already costing restless, inland China jobs by blocking trade to India. Economic necessity and fear of western intervention will drive China to push for change in Burma.
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Many political analysts agree that Burma’s conflict seems intractable
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The party of Myanmar’s detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi marked its anniversary Tuesday with a call to the nation’s military rulers to heed the recommendations of the United Nations.
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Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), reiterated its call for political reforms, substantive talks and the release of all political prisoners including its leader and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Soldiers loyal to the recently deposed chairman of the Burmese ethnic ceasefire group New Democratic Army-Kachin recaptured the group’s Pang Wah headquarters on the Chinese border on Monday night, a source in the town reported.
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The Burmese military junta adopts different ploys at different times to maintain their stranglehold on the country. In its latest move, the regime wants to enlist all Chin women as members of the Myanmar Women’s Affair Federation (MWAF), the largest women’s social organization in Burma.
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Eleven Burmese prison inmates have died and at least eighty have been hospitalised within days of a cholera outbreak in Tharyawadi prison, an exiled rights group has said.
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September 26: Some corrupt Burmese local authorities have been openly taking millions of kyat from illegal gambling syndicates and let them control the destructive gambling world causing untold miseries to local people.
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The next challenge facing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to reduce the demand and supply of synthetic drugs like ecstasy and “ice” ( methamphetamines), a Singapore official said on Tuesday.
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The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have shifted several major bases to Burma following Bhutan’s offensive against the outfit in December 2003 according to confidential sources.
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Burma is among 38 of the world’s poorest countries that may eligible to have up to 100 percent of their international debt wiped through a World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) initiative.
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September 25: Chin National Front’s Statement on “Threat To The Peace: A Call For The UN Security Council To Act In Burma”
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United Nations: The race to fill the shoes of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is gaining pace amid growing consensus that an Asian should take over when the Ghana native stands down at the end of next year.
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Two Burmese ethnic rebel groups are supporting a call for the United Nations Security Council to take up an urgent initiative to bring political reforms to military-ruled Burma.
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