An exiled Burmese rights group has raised concerns over the growing influence in Burma’s prisons of junta-backed civilian social organizations, while international rights groups remain barred from visiting prisoners.
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November 6: 88 Generation Students vowed to continue to carry out peaceful movements that effectively express the true feeling of the people on genuine peace of Burma and national reconciliation.
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The number of internet users in Myanmar has reached nearly 300,000, up from merely 12 four years ago, ac-cording to a newly disclosed figures of the telecommunications authorities Wednesday.
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For the first time, the International Rescue Committee is set to open Legal Assistant Centres for promoting legal awareness and render legal services to Burmese refugees living in camps along the Thai-Burmese border.
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Thailand will review trade negotiations with the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral  Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) if the talks this week become bogged down, Chana Kanaratanadilok, deputy  director-general of the Trade Negotiations Department, said on Friday, The Nation reports.
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New Delhi: ASEAN’S free trade agreement with India is set to miss another deadline and is unlikely to take shape before at least the middle of next year, Asean Secretary-General Ong Keng Yong said.
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Time magazine’s Asia edition will honor 60 years of “Asian Heroes” in its forthcoming 60th anniversary edition.
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Thailand’s army-appointed prime minister Surayud Chulanont has admitted that the kingdom’s post-coup government is “in the same shoes” as neighbouring Myanmar’s military regime.
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Ibrahim Gambari, UN under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, will return to Burma Thursday with the aim of achieving concrete results to add to the access he secured during his first visit in May, the world body has said.
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The Internet enemies list numbers 13: Belarus, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
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The Lady of Burma tells the story of opposition leader and political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The UN’s Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Ibrahim Gambari, is to pay another visit to Burma, his second in six months. But what lies in store this time is anyone’s guess. Few of the pundits and journalists who follow events in Burma maintain any kind of guarded optimism.
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November 7: It’s usually satisfying when the situation in Burma reaches the international headlines. But then there is the coverage given to the leaked wedding video of senior general Than Shwe’s daughter Thandar Shwe.
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