The trial of three people accused of sending ‘untrue’ reports to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), was today postponed by Aunglan (Allen) Township court in central Burma.
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Tensions have increased between leaders of the Karen National Union and its military wing, the Karen National Liberation Army, after members of the opposition group met secretly with Burmese government officials in Thailand, sources in Karen State told The Irrawaddy on Friday.
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Life appeared to have returned to normal for residents in Moreh yesterday with trade across the Indo-Burma border resuming despite the discovery by Indian security forces of a rudimentary explosive device in the town.
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Rathedaung, Burma: Being in love, wanting to marry and set up home of one’s choice is considered a crime in parts of Burma. A couple in love was arrested by the Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) while preparing to cross over to Bangladesh to tie the knot. The two were sentenced to three years in prison, a close relative of they would be groom said.
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Myanmar will set up a cattle breeding zone in the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw to mainly breed milk cows in a bid to meet the daily rising demand of milk in the area, livestock breeders said on Friday.
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The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), an economic bloc consisting of seven South and Southeast Asian countries, has missed the FTA implementation deadline of July 1, 2006.
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July 10-16, Sittwe’s waterfront will get busier with the opening of the new seaport.

PLANS are underway for India to invest more than US$100 million in the construction of a port in the coastal town of Sittwe in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
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Nay Pyi Taw – Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint called for stepping up efforts for reproductive health tasks to meet the UN’s millennium development goals at the Advocacy Meeting on Reproductive Health for Key Stakeholders on 18 July at the Health Department here.
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Malaysia issued a scathing criticism of Myanmar, accusing it of jeopardizing relations between Southeast Asia and other countries, and making scant progress towards democracy.
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Section: Regional News – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will next week make another attempt to push Burma towards democracy and national reconciliation, The Nation reports.
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A new report released in conjunction with the Burma and Democracies in Transition conference in Kuala Lumpur today calls for Asean countries to take a more proactive stance against Burma’s military regime.
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“Today is a sad and thought-provoking (regrettable?) day on which the whole Burma’s nationality faced the great invaluable loss.
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