Burma’s detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, met with the Burmese junta’s liaison officer, ex Maj-Gen Aung Kyi, on Friday, according to sources in Rangoon.
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Myanmar’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met a senior junta official on Friday, state media said, but it was not known what they discussed.
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The chairman of the National League for Democracy in San Chaung township, Rangoon, was arrested by authorities while attending a court hearing on Wednesday.
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A Shan youth was arrested by the Burmese authorities. His crime — singing a Shan song at the Shan New Year celebration in Mong Yai, northern Shan State, Burma , local sources said.
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Ten people in Arakan State, including three monks, were sentenced to long terms in prison, while three monks continue to be detained in interrogation cells by the Burmese military junta. The arrests and prosecution come in the wake of the ‘Saffron Revolution’ in the country, said a National League for Democracy report in Arakan.
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Maungdaw: Nasaka, Burma’s border security force, has been checking the lists of family members in all quarters of the western border town Maungdaw, and taking photographs of family members in every household, said a teacher in Maungdaw.
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The Burmese military junta has completely ignored the Kachin State Day. The regime’s military commander addressed the inaugural ceremony with inappropriate words in front of audiences at a special ceremony of the 60th anniversary of Kachin State Day, yesterday, sources said. (more…)

Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar, listed by Washington as among the world’s worst human trafficking offenders, arrested a couple trying to smuggle four women to China, state media said Thursday. (more…)

The Myanmar health authorities have warned local people not to use illegally-imported medicines, saying the quality of such medicines can not be guaranteed, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported on Friday.
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First Secretary of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council Lieutenant-General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo met with visiting Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress He Luli in the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw Friday.
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The UN Special Envoy on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, is scheduled to visit India and China in January to continue his consultations with two of Burma’s key neighbors, a top UN official said on Thursday.
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The York Coalition for Responsible Investment (YCRI), an initiative of concerned York students and professors seeking to put a social and environmental spotlight on the university’s investments launched a petition calling for the university to review its Burma-related investments.
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The famous dance troupe ‘Colourful Theelaythee variety dance troupe’, popular among the Burmese will proceed on its international tour to Singapore, Korea, Japan, US, England, Australia and Canada after performing in Malaysia in the forthcoming performance at the ‘Student Christian Centre Auditorium’ in Bangkok on January 12 and 13. (more…)