Rangoon regional commander Lt-Gen Myint Swe has been replaced by Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win, who was commander of the 11th Light Infantry Division, based in Rangoon.
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A 24-member foreign delegation from Rangoon has been visiting Maungdaw Township, a western border town of Burma, since January 25, according to a NGO worker from Maungdaw.
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A Rohingya villager had to bribe Kyat 300,000 to the Nasaka (Burmese-Border Security Force) of Buthidaung Township, Arakan State, Burma for getting his daughter married without permission, said a relative.
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Health workers from refugee camps and migrant communities on the Thai-Myanmar border will meet with local officials and international donors in Thailand’s northwestern province of Takl on Jan. 27 to review contingency plans to cope with a possible outbreak of bird flu.
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As the crackdown on drug suspects continues, 8 of the anti-drug officials have been promoted, a subject that has become the talk of the town among official circles in Tachilek, opposite Maesai:
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Bangkok: When Chinese contractors stopped illegally logging Burma’s northern forests last year after a damning report was released, environmentalists thought they had won a significant victory.
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Yangon: Myanmar will sponsor a pearl auction in February with an aim boost foreign exchange earning, sources with the state-run Myanmar Pearl Enterprise (MPE) said on Friday.
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The plummeting value of the Burmese currency by the day has forced businessmen to abandon their currency exchange business in Teknaf, a border town of Bangladesh. This has put Burmese traders wanting to exchange money in Teknaf in a spot, said a local trader there.
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“Voices of Mon” the first Mon newspaper to be published in Thailand is ready to be distributed from February.
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A senior Indian official has confirmed the United Kingdom has threatened to stop arms sales to India if the country goes through with the sale of an aircraft to Burma.
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Bangkok: An international media rights group Friday accused Myanmar of imposing severe censorship and demanded it release an imprisoned journalist whose health has worsened due to poor prison conditions.
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The northern English city Sheffield is planning to offer Freedom of the City to detained Burma’s democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Su Kyi.
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