Human rights activists in Burma have condemned local officials and Union Solidarity members in Irrawaddy Division’s Henzada township over Wednesday’s attack on two men.
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In Burma a small book designed to help students cheat their way through board examinations has been in circulation for years.
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Myanmar has launched its first domestically-produced locomotive, putting it into run from the former capital of Yangon to the second largest city of Mandalay in a bid to reduce reliance on import of locomotives in the wake of rising oil prices.
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Brewing discontent among government employees where the army commander and the Town Peace and Development Council (TPDC) are at logger heads over sharing taxes, has forced Col. Kyaw Lin Tun, Burmese Tactical Commander No.2 from Military Western Region Command to visit Three Pagoda Pass on the Thai-Burma border, a source close to authorities said.
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Chin Sian Thang, a well known Chin ethnic Member of Parliament is gearing up to initiate legal proceedings against an order to demolish his home in Kalay, Sagaing division, Burma.
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Increased security measures have been initiated at refugee camps near the Thailand-Burma border as tensions within rival Karen rebel groups continues to mount, according to sources along the border.
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Malaysia ought to recognize and protect Burmese refugees and asylum seekers, to demonstrate its tough foreign policy stance towards military-ruled Burma, urged a human rights organisation today.
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Yangon- Construction work on a 600-megawatt hydroelectric project on the Shweli River in upper Myanmar is 51 per cent completed, state-run media reports said Friday. Senior General Than Shwe, who heads Myanmar’s ruling junta, on Thursday led a delegation to visit the project site in Namkham district of the Shan State, 712 kilometres north of Yangon, reported the New Light of Myanmar.
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Asean will not defend Myanmar at any international forum following the military ruler’s adamant not to restore democracy in that country, the Dewan Rakyat was told Thursday.
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The name of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has long permeated the gardens and fields of her motherland. It was Burma where Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party was resoundingly victorious in the 1990 general elections. However, the country’s military junta nullified the results and refused to hand over power. A year earlier, the junta had changed the country’s name from Burma to Myanmar.
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A new report by the United States government condemns the Burmese junta for its continued and enhanced restrictions on humanitarian aid.
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