Burmese and Russian experts have begun exploring for uranium at a new site in northern Burma’s jade mining area, according to an ethnic ceasefire group and local sources.
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Five women National League for Democracy members from Zee Gone township were pelted with slingshot fire by three men on motorcycles yesterday after holding a prayer vigil at the Mya Thein Tan pagoda.
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Massage parlors at Three Pagoda Pass in Karen State have been forced to close by the leader of a Burmese government-backed women’s association who quarreled with her husband for visiting a parlor.
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Imphal: More than 500 people who fled their homes into the safety of Myanmar just across the border after violence erupted in Moreh last Saturday were handed over to the town authorities today.
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Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand are coordinating to introduce a cargo vessel liner to link their port cities in a bid to boost maritime trade among the three countries, a local media reported Tuesday.
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The renaming of the Burmese regime’s secretive “information city” development as Yadanabon Naypyidaw may be intended to give it a high tech image in keeping with the country’s new administrative capital, but communications and electricity connections remain more 19th century.
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Bangladesh is currently organizing to look for funds from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank to set up a hydropower plant in Burma, in order to import power to Bangladesh through a cross-border transmission line, report official sources.
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Myanmar Energy China Myanmar confirms plan to export natural gas to Yunnan, China Yangon Myanmar plans to build a road, a railway and a natural gas link to Yunnan, China, to foster closed economic ties with its neighbour to the north, state media reports said Tuesday.
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Burmese opposition groups inside and outside the country have disputed comments by a high ranking Asean official who criticized Western sanctions, saying they do not work to enhance democratic reform in the country.
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More than 80 pro-democracy Burmese activists o­n Tuesday gathered in front of the Russian and Chinese embassies in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to protest the two countries’ support of Burma’s ruling military regime and to urge them to put pressure o­n the government to release detained pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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A Burmese workers’ delegate attending the 96th session of the International Labor Conference in Geneva has been expelled from the worker’s meeting, according to a labor activist attending the International Labour Organization-sponsored event.
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Canadian writer Karen Connelly has won a major British literary award for her book set in Burma, The Lizard Cage.
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