Yangon: Political activists in Myanmar have demanded an end to discrimination against people seen as being anti-junta, citing restrictions against lawyers, doctors and small businesses with perceived links to the pro-democracy movement.
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Yangon: Doctors deemed by Myanmar’s military rulers to be overcharging for their services could face up to five years in prison under a law enacted this week, official media said Friday.
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Pro-democracy activists in Burma are slowly and steadily being pushed to the wall by the military junta which has stepped up restrictions and suppression both in economic and social terms, political dissidents in Rangoon said.
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Naypyidaw: Myanmar’s vast new capital has many oddities in an otherwise poor country, such as smooth multi-lane highways, luxury cars and new apartment blocks seemingly modelled on Western suburbia.
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Yangon: South Korea’s Daewoo plans to begin exploring for more natural gas off Myanmar’s coast, in an area that has attracted intense interest from both China and India, state-run media said Friday.
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The Burmese military is still shelling the Karenni National Progressive Party’s stronghold in Nyamu, near the Thai-Burma border, according to the group’s general secretary Raymond Htoo.
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Myanmar absorbed 33 million U.S. dollars’ foreign investment coming from Russia in the first half (April to September) of the fiscal year 2006-07, according to the latest figures released by the Central Statistical Organization (CSO).
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Labour unions from all over the world have pledged to fight for the release of detained Myanmarese leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a two-day Burma Conference in Kathmandu.
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