The Kachin Independence Organization on Tuesday opened a three-day emergency meeting in response to rumors that Burma’s military government is preparing to seize its territory.
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Burma’s new administrative capital in Pyinmana has uninterrupted power for the first time after siphoning it from other towns including Yangon and Mandalay.
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Win Myint and Khin Maung Zaw, the two witnesses and friends of Thet Naing Oo who was brutally beaten to death by Rangoon Kyimyintaing (Kemmendine) Township police and fire brigade members last month, were released today from the notorious Insein Jail.
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Deputy leader of the Burmese military junta, Vice-Senior General Maung  Aye, stated at the graduation ceremony of military officers in Ba Htoo Military Town, Mandalay, on 10 April, 2006 that federalism will break up the country, according to the nation’s government controlled media.
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The price of gold on the Burma and Bangladesh border went up recently as a rumor was spread throughout the region that army high raking officials and rich men were buying a large amount of gold in Burma after the government increased the salaries of its servicemen.
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April 11, During a news briefing at Bangkok on 10 April, United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) officials said that the recent outbreak of avian flu in Burma is more serious than previously thought and that it has become a major source of problem for the region. (more…)

Yangon: Bird flu in Myanmar has been brought under control, and restrictions will be lifted in two affected regions by the end of the month, a livestock official said Wednesday, just days after the U.N. said the situation in this impoverished nation was more serious than originally thought.
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Seoul: A consortium of South Korean companies is pushing to join a Canadian company’s copper mine development project in Myanmar, a state-run mining corporation said Wednesday. KOREA RESOURCES CORP. said it and two other South Korean companies signed a preliminary agreement in January with IVANHOE MINES LTD to jointly develop a copper mine in Monywa, central Myanmar.
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Many refugees seek official recognition and access to services in order to make a better life for themselves here.
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Singapore: Singapore is stepping up its drive to become Southeast Asia’s premier educational hub among students eagar for a dose of the West with cultural reminders of their homelands.
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For Burmese, part of the aim of Thingyan, a five-day water festival that commemorates the coming of the New Year, is to cool down during the hottest time of the year and celebrate their cultural and religious heritage.
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