With far fewer revelers choosing to take to the Rangoon streets for this year’s Thingyan festival, pandal organisers have reportedly lost hundreds of thousands of kyats worth of business.
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Price of meat has soared since March in Mizoram after the state government banned entry of livestock from Burma (Myanmar) following an outbreak of bird flu in the neighbouring country.
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The New Delhi office of the India-based Burmese exile media group Mizzima News was sealed off by Indian authorities yesterday, according to editor Sein Win.
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Kuala Lumpur: About 40,000 refugees are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Malaysia.
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The Lahu Democratic Front (LDF), the Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) and the Pa-O People’s Liberation Organization (PPLO), all members of the armed, anti-junta alliance, the National Democratic Front of Burma (NDF), declared that they will no longer use antipersonnel landmines in their armed struggle in Burma, Swiss-based NGO Geneva Call announced in a press release on 16 April 2006.
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(Matriculation Examination)

The Burmese University in Diaspora is calling for new students for 2008 Cold Season Semester. Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, Migrant Workers in the peripherals of Burma and potential youths from inside Burma are cordially invited to appear for the Matriculation Examination to be held on 25thth June, 2007(Monday) at the various centres inside and outside the country for the faculty of Social Sciences leading to BA and BMA.
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