Though currently unable to attend birthday celebrations, Burma’s well-known activist Min Ko Naing will not be forgotten by Burma’s democracy movement. Young activists, former political prisoners and admirers of the charismatic opposition figure gathered at his home in Rangoon on Wednesday to celebrate his 44th birthday.
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The Kachin Independence Organization will seek to meet with Burmese government officials to clear the air following the group’s refusal to speak out against the inclusion of the Burma issue on the UN Security Council agenda.
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The remains of student leader Thet Win Aung who died suddenly at Mandalay Jail yesterday evening, was neither allowed to be taken back to his home in Rangoon nor buried in a normal way. He was cremated without much ceremony early this afternoon during a funeral hastily organised by the military authorities.
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The absence of improved film making technology makes the quality of Burmese films inferior to those by other film industries in Asia, said a prominent Burmese film actress.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has praised Thailand’s new government for pledging to improve the living conditions of thousands of Burmese refugees in camps along the country’s border with Burma.
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October 17: New Delhi: Army Chief Gen JJ Singh today revealed that operations against militant groups along the 1,643-km border with Myanmar would be conducted in coordination with the Myanmarese Army.
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In the absence of provisions for blood tests, the mortality rate of people in western Burma’s Chin state has given rise to suspicions of escalation in HIV positive infections.
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Military run Myanmar arrested 445 suspected drug dealers and seized nearly 650 kilograms of opium in September, state media said on Wednesday.
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It is a long journey from the rocky mines of Myanmar to the toned necks and slender wrists of US celebrities gliding along red carpets.
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Myanmar’s total foreign trade for the 2005-06 fiscal year was almost 15 percent higher than that for the year before, according to government statistics seen Wednesday.
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Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand’s energy minister, is considering a move to refocus the country’s hydropower projects from Burma to Laos, according to a source close to the minister.
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October 17: Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was appalled at the death of a political prisoner in Myanmar, he said Wednesday, calling on Yangon’s military junta to free all political detainees.
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