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		<title>The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)AAPP (B) urges Government of Burma to release of remaining all political prisoners</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/17/the-assistance-association-for-political-prisoners-burmaaapp-b-urges-government-of-burma-to-release-of-remaining-all-political-prisoners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/17/the-assistance-association-for-political-prisoners-burmaaapp-b-urges-government-of-burma-to-release-of-remaining-all-political-prisoners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 23:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Statement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) expresses displeasure with the mannerpolitical prisoners have been released on 17 May, resulting in the release of 23 prisoners, of which 19 areconfirmed to be political prisoners. While AAPP (B) welcomes the freeing of any political prisoner, thereleases mean little if political prisoners are released with restrictions attached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Beer o’clock for Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/mizzima-news-beer-o%e2%80%99clock-for-myanmar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/mizzima-news-beer-o%e2%80%99clock-for-myanmar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
		
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite Myanmar’s comparatively low beer sales, the largely untapped industry is set to grow rapidly with four new brewery licenses offered by the government. Speaking at the Myanmar Consumer Summit at Yangon’s Park Royal Hotel on Thursday, Myint Zaw, senior CEO of Myanmar Brewery Ltd, said, “There is huge room to grow for hard liquor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Times: Suu Kyi appeals for UK help to rebuild Myanmar university system</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/financial-times-suu-kyi-appeals-for-uk-help-to-rebuild-myanmar-university-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/financial-times-suu-kyi-appeals-for-uk-help-to-rebuild-myanmar-university-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DASSK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, has called on UK university leaders to help her country rebuild its higher education system which she says has been virtually “destroyed” by 50 years of military rule. Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel Laureate, made her plea via a video message to representatives of British universities on Thursday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Burmese embassy to issue migrant children with passports</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/democratic-voice-of-burma-burmese-embassy-to-issue-migrant-children-with-passports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/democratic-voice-of-burma-burmese-embassy-to-issue-migrant-children-with-passports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASEAN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Burmese embassy in Thailand will begin issuing temporary passports for children of registered migrant workers on Thursday, according to a government spokesperson. The passports will be issued at 11 centres across Thailand to all children under the age of 18, whose parents sought to register to work legally in the country in the year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eleven Media Group: Derek Mitchell urges actions on social media abusers</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/eleven-media-group-derek-mitchell-urges-actions-on-social-media-abusers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/eleven-media-group-derek-mitchell-urges-actions-on-social-media-abusers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Ambassador Mitchell urged Myanmar government to take actions against the incitement perpetrators using the social network to create social crisis. Some people use false identities and fake accounts on the social network, writing recklessly and stirring up the problems. They do not take responsibility for what they have written, said Mitchell. “Myanmar government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangkok Post: Myanmar army continues to live in denial over abuses – Brad Adams</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/bangkok-post-myanmar-army-continues-to-live-in-denial-over-abuses-%e2%80%93-brad-adams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/09/bangkok-post-myanmar-army-continues-to-live-in-denial-over-abuses-%e2%80%93-brad-adams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar&#8217;s rapidly evolving political landscape produced another symbolic event at the recent Armed Forces Day parade. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi attended for the first time, sitting alongside generals in the viewing stands as thousands of troops, tanks, and missiles passed by. An open question is who needed who more &#8212; a deeply unpopular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma and Agence France Presse: Burma revokes pardon of dissident writer for ‘defaming’ police</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/democratic-voice-of-burma-and-agence-france-presse-burma-revokes-pardon-of-dissident-writer-for-%e2%80%98defaming%e2%80%99-police/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/democratic-voice-of-burma-and-agence-france-presse-burma-revokes-pardon-of-dissident-writer-for-%e2%80%98defaming%e2%80%99-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Human rights activists slammed the Burmese government on Wednesday for revoking a prison amnesty granted to an opposition party member last year, after he was accused of ‘defaming’ the police. It is the first time since military rule ended two years ago that a dissident’s pardon has been overturned. Nay Myo Zin, 38, served less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Burmese army torches Shan rebel outpost</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/democratic-voice-of-burma-burmese-army-torches-shan-rebel-outpost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/democratic-voice-of-burma-burmese-army-torches-shan-rebel-outpost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An outpost belonging to the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) in northeastern Burma was burnt down on Sunday by government soldiers, who claimed to be searching for four Burmese “civilians” who went missing at the end of last month, rebels say. Burmese soldiers raided an SSA-S outpost in Tenghkam village in Namhkam township in northern Shan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shan Herald Agency for News: Peace process: So many promises, few implementations</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/shan-herald-agency-for-news-peace-process-so-many-promises-few-implementations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/shan-herald-agency-for-news-peace-process-so-many-promises-few-implementations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39010</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Loi Taileng — 19 May 2012 was the last time the Shan State Army (SSA) South, officially the Restoration Council of Shan State /Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) and Naypyitaw’s Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) met in Kengtung to sign a 12 point union level agreement. All in all, the two sides have signed 3 agreements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Times: Key reform minister exits Myanmar investment body</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/financial-times-key-reform-minister-exits-myanmar-investment-body/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/financial-times-key-reform-minister-exits-myanmar-investment-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business / Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The abrupt exit of one of Myanmar’s leading reformist ministers from the helm of the government’s powerful investment commission has raised fresh questions about President Thein Sein’s ambitious reform agenda and unsettled investors. U Soe Thane, a key figure in a small group of so-called “super ministers” in the president’s office, will be replaced as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Mon group calls for release of young detainees</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/mizzima-news-mon-group-calls-for-release-of-young-detainees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/mizzima-news-mon-group-calls-for-release-of-young-detainees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethnic Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Mon youth group has urged authorities to release all 11 people detained since mid-April for allegedly attacking a police officer during the traditional Water Festival in Mon State. Min Nyan Thike Raman, a member of the Mon Youth Forum, said that the authorities failed to discover the root cause of the clash. He claimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irrawaddy: Land rights activists sued for protesting without permission</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/the-irrawaddy-land-rights-activists-sued-for-protesting-without-permission/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/the-irrawaddy-land-rights-activists-sued-for-protesting-without-permission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protest / Strike]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two leading land rights activists have been charged with organizing unsanctioned protests to demand back their expropriated lands in Thingangyun Township, Rangoon Division. About 200 hectares of farmland was confiscated by the Burmese army in 1991, leaving more than 1,000 families displaced. The pair, Kyaw Lin and Sein Than, were arrested on Tuesday under a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irrawaddy: Human rights the focus of Burma Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/the-irrawaddy-human-rights-the-focus-of-burma-film-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/the-irrawaddy-human-rights-the-focus-of-burma-film-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the idea of connecting film and human rights, “The Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival” will launch in Rangoon next month, according to the festival’s founder and director, Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi. The award-winning filmmaker said the festival would run from June 15-19 in two movie theaters in Rangoon’s Junction Square shopping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shan Herald Agency for News: A $2 mobile SIM costs dearly at countryside</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/shan-herald-agency-for-news-a-2-mobile-sim-costs-dearly-at-countryside/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/shan-herald-agency-for-news-a-2-mobile-sim-costs-dearly-at-countryside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business / Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=39000</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In April, Myanmar Post and Telecommunication (MPT) unveiled a 1,500 Kyat (less than $2) worth CDMA mobile SIM to the public in the country and has reached the countryside recently but the costs have risen many folds, according to local news sources. “What we know is that a SIM card worth only 1,500 Kyat. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irrawaddy: Former Thai PM Chavalit discusses investment in Naypyidaw</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/the-irrawaddy-former-thai-pm-chavalit-discusses-investment-in-naypyidaw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2013/05/08/the-irrawaddy-former-thai-pm-chavalit-discusses-investment-in-naypyidaw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=38998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Thai Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh paid a visit to Naypyidaw this week, where he talked about opportunities to invest in Burma with Vice President Sai Mauk Kham. According to the website of Burma’s President Office, Chavalit in a meeting on Tuesday discussed investment prospects and business and development projects in Burma’s border territories, which [...]]]></description>
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