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	<title>Burmanet &#187; On The Border</title>
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		<title>Karen Information Center: Burma exiles take-up President Thein Sein’s invite to return home &#8211; Shwe Thite Taw</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/31/karen-information-center-burma-exiles-take-up-president-thein-sein%e2%80%99s-invite-to-return-home-shwe-thite-taw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One woman pro-democracy activist who took the Burma government’s invitation to return home seriously is Daw San Dar Win, a teacher, who works at Burma Migrant Education Department in the Thai border town of Mae Sot. Saw San Dar Win said that she returned to Burma for family reasons and not because of political motivation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters: Fear shrouds election race in Manipur, India&#8217;s dark jewel – Frank Jack Daniel</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/27/reuters-fear-shrouds-election-race-in-manipur-indias-dark-jewel-%e2%80%93-frank-jack-daniel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/27/reuters-fear-shrouds-election-race-in-manipur-indias-dark-jewel-%e2%80%93-frank-jack-daniel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMPHAL, India – Thrown face down in an open drain by a grenade blast, Maisnam Ratan&#8217;s bloodied corpse was the latest reminder of the lingering insurgency in India&#8217;s isolated, far-eastern state of Manipur, which elects a state legislature Saturday.Manipur, which neighbors Myanmar, is called the Jewel of India for its paddy fields, lakes and green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: China&#8217;s outlaws find a second home in &#8216;lawless&#8217; Burma &#8211; Patrick Boehler</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/20/irrawaddy-chinas-outlaws-find-a-second-home-in-lawless-burma-patrick-boehler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/20/irrawaddy-chinas-outlaws-find-a-second-home-in-lawless-burma-patrick-boehler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a hot and humid summer afternoon in June last year, a delegation of urban officials met with the village representatives of Huotian village in China’s eastern Jiangxi province. Huotian (“burning field”) village is a sleepy settlement of several hundred farmers, surrounded by fields and woods and with one main road intersecting a row of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indo Asian News Service: Myanmar, India vow to ensure border stability</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/20/indo-asian-news-service-myanmar-india-vow-to-ensure-border-stability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/20/indo-asian-news-service-myanmar-india-vow-to-ensure-border-stability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yangon &#8211; Myanmar and India have pledged to ensure everlasting border stability, friendship and bilateral cooperation between the two countries, official media reported Friday. The two sides stressed this at a meeting held in Nay Phi Taw Thursday. Deputy Home Minister Brigadier-General Kyaw Zan Myint from Myanmar and Home Secretary R.K. Singh from India attended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima: ABSDF to hold peace talks with government &#8211; Ko Wild</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/mizzima-absdf-to-hold-peace-talks-with-government-ko-wild/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/mizzima-absdf-to-hold-peace-talks-with-government-ko-wild/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chiang Mai– The All Burma Students&#8217; Democratic Front (ABSDF) on Tuesday agreed to have peace talks with the Burmese government, ABSDF Vice Chairman Myo Win said. Most of the nine ABSDF battalions are based in areas controlled by the Karen National Union (KNU), which has signed a cease-fire agreement with the government. The ABSDF said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima: Minister Aung Min seeks talks with Thailand-based groups &#8211; Ko Wild</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/mizzima-minister-aung-min-seeks-talks-with-thailand-based-groups-ko-wild/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/19/mizzima-minister-aung-min-seeks-talks-with-thailand-based-groups-ko-wild/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chiang Mai– Burmese presidential special peace envoy and Rail Transportation Minister Aung Min has offered two exile-based democratic groups to meet for political talks the first week of February, said group leaders. General-Secretary Dr. Naing Aung of the Forum for Democracy in Burma (FDB), which consists of seven organizations, said that peace facilitators Hla Maung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Burmese gov’t and Kachin armed group hold peace talks in China &#8211; Ba Kaung</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/18/irrawaddy-burmese-gov%e2%80%99t-and-kachin-armed-group-hold-peace-talks-in-china-ba-kaung/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/18/irrawaddy-burmese-gov%e2%80%99t-and-kachin-armed-group-hold-peace-talks-in-china-ba-kaung/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Burmese government delegation held peace talks in China on Wednesday with the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), the political wing of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), an ethnic armed group that has been engaged in armed conflict with the Burmese military since June when a 1994 ceasefire agreement collapsed. “We had frank exchanges with each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Student army laments jailed members</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/18/democratic-voice-of-burma-student-army-laments-jailed-members/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/18/democratic-voice-of-burma-student-army-laments-jailed-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Troops from the ABSDF during a training exercise in March 2008 (Source: ABSDF website) The armed All Burma Students’ Democratic Front, formed in the wake of a mass uprising in 1988, says 30 of its members remain behind bars in Burma despite a far-reaching amnesty of political prisoners last week. The group says 13 detainees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Danish govt to focus on Burma&#8217;s borders &#8211; Patrick Boehler</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/13/irrawaddy-danish-govt-to-focus-on-burmas-borders-patrick-boehler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/13/irrawaddy-danish-govt-to-focus-on-burmas-borders-patrick-boehler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Border areas will be among the focus areas of Denmark&#8217;s engagement efforts with Burma, visiting Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach told The Irrawaddy earlier this week. Bach made his remarks after returning from Burma, where he met with President Thein Sein, several government ministers and pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi ,and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time: A ceasefire in Burma: Is one of the world’s oldest insurgencies about to end? &#8211; Hannah Beech</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/12/time-a-ceasefire-in-burma-is-one-of-the-world%e2%80%99s-oldest-insurgencies-about-to-end-hannah-beech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/12/time-a-ceasefire-in-burma-is-one-of-the-world%e2%80%99s-oldest-insurgencies-about-to-end-hannah-beech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (C) applauds during a ceremony at her National League for Democracy (NLD)&#8217;s headquarters in Rangoon, Jan. 9, 2012. One of the world’s longest civil conflicts may finally be over. On Jan. 12, a “peace delegation” from the quasi-civilian government of Burma signed a ceasefire with ethnic Karen rebels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Migrants struggling despite Thai scheme &#8211; Mahn Saimon</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/12/democratic-voice-of-burma-migrants-struggling-despite-thai-scheme-mahn-saimon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/12/democratic-voice-of-burma-migrants-struggling-despite-thai-scheme-mahn-saimon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A move by the Thai government to verify the millions of migrant workers from Burma has done little to improve conditions, a migrant advocacy group claims, with many still denied health insurance by employers. Both the Thai and Burmese government have backed the National Verification Process that will award status to migrants whom to date [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaladan Press: More Rohingya boatpeople arrested</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/12/kaladan-press-more-rohingya-boatpeople-arrested/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/12/kaladan-press-more-rohingya-boatpeople-arrested/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teknaf, Bangladesh: Fifteen more Rohingya boatpeople were arrested at Shahpuri Dip, Teknaf Upazila, at midnight on December 7, according to locals and Teknaf police. The sources said police from Teknaf went to Shapuri Dip and arrested 15 boatpeople during a raid, after receiving a tip. However, 45 boatpeople and agents responsible for arranging transportation, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kachin News Group: Kachin exiles demand secession if Burma govt rejects federalism</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/10/kachin-news-group-kachin-exiles-demand-secession-if-burma-govt-rejects-federalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/10/kachin-news-group-kachin-exiles-demand-secession-if-burma-govt-rejects-federalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PKDS president Nsang Tu Awng gave welcome speech to Kachin representatives in the Chiang Mai Meeting on January 3. A coalition of Kachin exiles meeting in Thailand jointly declared their desire for an independent Kachin state, if the country&#8217;s central government continues to reject federalism, according to a statement issued on January 4, Burma&#8217;s Independence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agence France Presse: Grenade attacks hit Mekong in Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/06/agence-france-presse-grenade-attacks-hit-mekong-in-myanmar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/06/agence-france-presse-grenade-attacks-hit-mekong-in-myanmar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unidentified rebel group fired grenades targeting Myanmar soldiers on the Mekong river near the border with Thailand, but missed their target, Thai police said Friday. The grenades landed early Wednesday near the patrol boat, which was accompanying four Chinese cargo ships that had docked at a pier in Tachileik district in eastern Shan state, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shan Herald Agency for News: Wa, Mongla still against junta-drawn charter</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/06/shan-herald-agency-for-news-wa-mongla-still-against-junta-drawn-charter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/06/shan-herald-agency-for-news-wa-mongla-still-against-junta-drawn-charter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite signing agreement last month to consider having elected representatives for townships under their control to speak for them, both the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) say the first thing for them to deliberate is whether or not they should accept the 2008 constitution that had been ratified without [...]]]></description>
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