Burma’s acting Prime Minister on Monday warned that saboteurs were plotting to interfere with the government’s National Convention for democratic reform, according to state-run newspapers.
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Thousands of people were left homeless after floods swept through central Myanmar, washing out bridges, closing schools and forcing a suspension in rail service, state media said Monday.
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In a fresh quest for energy, Burma’s state-owned oil and gas enterprise has started test drilling’s in Pone Hna Kyun Township in western Burma’s Arakan state, forcing local villagers into labour and under paying them.
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Burma’s ruling military junta has ordered a census of Kachin State in northern Burma. The census undertaken is divided into two groups of people, those under 18 and over 18 year of age, residents said.
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Dengue fever killed 30 people in Myanmar in the first six months of the year, local media said Monday, making it the latest country in the region to experience a surge in the mosquito-borne disease.
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A total of 2.5 million children under the age of five in Myanmar were vaccinated against polio during the country’s third round of polio vaccination campaign in the last five days under an expanded program on immunization, the local Myanmar Times reported Monday.
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Employees in Burma’s uranium extracting laboratory under the Ministry of Science and Technology are working under conditions hazardous to their health, according to a Burmese news broadcast.
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Burma’s membership in Asean cannot be revoked at the moment even though its actions have smeared the good name of the regional association, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.
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July 6, The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today renewed his call to the Government of Myanmar to release U Win Tin, the prize-winning journalist who has been in jail since 1989. (more…)

Fund raising helps increase community awareness on internally displaced people, and creates opportunity for refugee community to gather at food fair and musical evening event, said an event organizer.
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On 7 July 1962, a few months after the political coup and killing of elected Shan politicians, the military opened fire on students in Rangoon University campus. And the long and harsh political repression had begun in Burma. (more…)

July 8, Last week Burma and the Russian company Rosatom announced a new contract. Rosatom would build Burma a nuclear power station. (more…)