Financial assistance to further the education of children of Burma’s prisoners of conscience was provided by the National League for Democracy and 88 generation students to honour political prisoners.
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The public money spent o­n jaunts and junkets enjoyed by Burma’s junta chief, Snr-Gen Than Shwe, his family and friends would cover the cost of feeding 10,000 of the country’s under-nourished children for a year, according to The Irrawaddy’s sources.
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Moves for a resurgence is in evidence among several Sino-Burma border based ethnic armed rebel groups, which have a ceasefire agreement with the Burmese military junta, sources on the border reveal.
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Assam Rifles has held Myanmar partly responsible for the incidents that left the border township of Moreh paralysed for 10 days this month.
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Fighting between the Karen National Liberation Army-the military wing of the Karen National Union-and the breakaway Democratic Karen Buddhist Army o­n Thursday in Burma’s Myawaddy left nine DKBA soldiers dead, according to KNU officials.
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Dhaka: Bangladesh plans to set up a camp for 9,500 Muslim refugees from Myanmar, an official said on Wednesday, the third such shelter since they started arriving in the country more than a decade ago.
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June 20, Myanmar earned more than $2 billion from the sale of natural gas in the past year, official media said.
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Bilateral trade between South Korea and Myanmar is expected to grow unprecedentedly at an extra high rate following South Korea’s exemption of tariff on most of the goods imported from ASEAN countries including Myanmar, a local media reported Thursday.
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India is still nurturing hopes of striking a deal with Burma for gas for its energy sector, even after Rangoon has indicated that it would sell gas to China, said Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL) CMD Dr U D Chobey on Wednesday.
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Relatives of an HIV/AIDS activist who was arrested by Burmese authorities last month say they will file a missing person’s case and sue the authorities if information about her status is not forthcoming.
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There has been a sharp increase in the number of children dying from hemorrhagic dengue fever in Bassein, Irrawaddy division, according to sources close to the local hospital.
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The new Asean charter could contribute to the democracy movement in Burma, the incoming general secretary of the 10-country bloc said on Wednesday.
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At the conclusion of a weeklong session which attempted to codify the procedural behavior of the Council’s activities, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to continue the work of independent experts reporting on the situation in Burma.
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June 20, Rangoon is now Beijing’s best buddy in Southeast Asia and China’s influence is visible everywhere across Burma (more…)

Group risks becoming a laughing stock if it continues to tolerate the military regime
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