Tin Ko, a 33-year-old Burmese HIV patient, staged a solo protest on Wednesday in Rangoon, calling for better health care for people who suffer from the disease, a source told The Irrawaddy.
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Yangon: The first secretary of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council, Lieutenant-General Thein Sein, met with visiting Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo in the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw Tuesday, the state-run Myanmar Radio and Television reported in a night broadcast.
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Buthidaung, Arakan: The immigration department of Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships with the cooperation of UNHCR/UNOPS and Nasaka has been giving Identity (ID) cards  to Rohingya people as of March 16, this year, said an official source.
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Inmates from Magwe Division’s Thayat prison are being forced by prison officials to work in local factories for meager salaries, sources close to several prisoners told DVB.
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A Burmese vet who doesn’t want to be identified told DVB that the latest bird flu outbreak in Rangoon was caused by not properly ‘clearing up’ chicken and duck farms around the affected area during the previous outbreak. (more…)

Medical equipment worth about US $ 15,000 was donated by Korea’s Daewoo International to the Akyab general hospital yesterday. The equipment is to be set up in a special VIP treatment room at the hospital, said a doctor on condition of anonymity.
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Yangon: At the recent Yunnan-Burma Trade Investment Fair held in Yangon, the two sides signed 7 cooperation projects, involving a total investment of up to USD 53.695 million, according to news from the Department of Commerce of Yunnan Province.
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Yangon: A total of 215 state-owned enterprises (SOE) out of 288 proposed from 10 ministries were privatized in Myanmar as of January this year since the country began implementation of a plan of privatization in 1995, sources with the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development said on Wednesday.
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Two more boats carrying more than 150 Rohingya men from Burma, who said they left their homes because of political persecution by Burmese authorities, were detained on Tuesday off the western coast of South Thailand by marine police.
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Mae Ai, Thailand: Hidden in the back corners of the world is a scattered population of millions of nobodies, citizens of nowhere, forgotten or neglected by governments, ignored by census takers. (more…)