The ethnic ceasefire group Kachin Independence Organization has expanded its administrative body amid discontent over its leadership from the local population and youth.
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Yangon: Myanmar has extended its international express mail services (EMS) to 33 countries and regions in the past 10 years, facilitating the country’s prompt mail links with foreign countries, official sources said Wednesday.
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Yangon: In the sweltering heat of Yangon’s nights, Paing Soe dreams of skiing — not in the Alps or the Rockies, but in a virtually inaccessible stretch of rebel-held territory in northern Myanmar.
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Yangon: Prices of chicken and eggs rebounded in Myanmar, after the government announced last week that bird flu outbreaks in the country were under control.
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McGill University’s board of governors has voted to require managers of its endowment fund to divest stocks of any companies doing harm in Myanmar.
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Ubuc, Indonesia: ASEAN should work with China and India to persuade army-ruled Myanmar to reform since the regional powerhouses have stronger economic leverage, the bloc’s chief Ong Keng Yong said Wednesday.
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Manila: Internet media and personal journals known as “blogs” offer Asians ways of getting around press restrictions under authoritarian governments, proponents said Wednesday.
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April 18, We knew North Korea was desperate for friends, but even we were taken aback to hear of the isolated Stalinist state’s new ally: Burma’s brutal military junta. Pyongyang hasn’t officially confirmed the love-in yet, but a Burmese foreign ministry official let it slip last week that the two countries may soon restore diplomatic ties after a two-decade hiatus.
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