Burmese deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu is in New Delhi for four days and is meeting Indian officials to discuss bi-lateral relations.
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Burmese prime minister Gen Soe Win and China’s vice president Zeng Qinghong discussed trade and investment during talks in Nanning, southwestern China yesterday.
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October 15: Proposed opium bans could spark a humanitarian crisis in Burma’s drug-rich north
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A joint operation by mainland, Thai, Myanmarese and Laotian police has broken up an international drug-trafficking ring, resulting in the arrest of 70 suspected syndicate members and seizure of more than 700kg of illicit drugs.
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October 18: The value of Burma’s kyat has risen to 1200 to the US dollar on the black market after hitting an all-time low at the end of September.
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Myanmar’s energy ministry Wednesday announced an eight-fold increase in the official price of petrol and diesel, a move likely to worsen soaring inflation in this impoverished military-ruled nation.
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Battalions of the Burmese Army in Arakan State are facing increasing numbers of desertion of soldiers due to inadequate salary, the grave gap in wealth between ranks and the unequal treatment of officers by soldiers, says an army sergeant. (more…)

An exiled Burmese computer expert has said the recently developed Burmese Unicode, or language character system, contains defects and is not ready for use.
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Burmese authorities recently raided the local branch of a Thailand-based NGO in Rangoon and placed severe restrictions on several other humanitarian and religious organizations in the capital.
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October 18: Chinese logging companies are colluding with the Burmese military commanders and ethnic leaders to illegally strip and export large tracts of some of the world’s most ecologically important forests, according to a two-year investigation by London-based watchdog group Global Witness.
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