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In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi has been appealing her recent conviction for breaking the terms of her house arrest after she allowed an American intruder to stay at her home.
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Yangon (Myanmar), Sep 18: Lawyers of detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have said that they have firm arguments in the appeal that they have filed against her criminal conviction.
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Yangon, Sep 17 (DPA) Myanmar’s junta is to release 7,114 prisoners on the 21st anniversary of the military’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests, media reports and officials said Thursday.
IANS
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:44 New Delhi (Mizzima) – Unabated rat infestation continues to create acute food shortage for people in Chin state and northwest part of Burma, a new report said. The …
Mizzima News |
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:02 Ruili (Mizzima) – Authorities on the Sino-Burma border towns of Muse and Nam Hkam in northern Shan State, have started taking photographs of families for registrati…
Mizzima News |
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After 16 days of being an ammunition porter on the frontline with Burmese military government troops, Aung Naing was reunited with his parents recently at Three Pagodas Pass on the Thai-Burmese border…
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More than five million methamphetamine pills have been found by anti-drugs police in a cave in Shan state in northeastern Burma, state-run media reported today.
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Three hundred candidates were selected from military personnel who are now attending the National Defense University in Naypyidaw. According to the sources in Rangoon and Naypyidaw, the candidates wi…
BurmaNet |
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The president is required to make the designation to Congress every year. They were released by the State Department late Tuesday. The 20 countries designated are: Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Bolivia, …
BurmaNet |
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The Htoo Trading Company, owned by Tay Za, one of the junta’s favorite businessmen, is clearing timber in the reserve forest of Mount Popa, reportedly for a tea plantation, which has raised conc…
BurmaNet |
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Singapore – Allegations that Myanmar’s junta is stashing billions of dollars in Singapore have thrown a spotlight on banking secrecy in the city-state, which strongly denies being a haven …
BurmaNet |
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Bangkok – Mong Thongdee is a rare champion.The 12-year-old boy lives just behind Chiang Mai airport, in northern Thailand, and makes paper planes for hobby. That’s where he gets scolded by his fat…
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British singer and actress Jane Birkin held a news conference Tuesday in Tokyo to urge the incoming government to pressure Myanmar’s military junta to promote democracy. BurmaNet
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US President Barack Obama’s acting point man on Myanmar said Wednesday that a review of US policy was almost complete as he urged the country’s military regime to free some 2,100 political…
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Text of report in English by Czech national public-service news agency CTK Prague – To strengthen cooperation of Burmese pro-democratic activists in Europe was the aim of the two-day conference…
BurmaNet |
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Political change in Naypyidaw is in China’s best interest. As the People’s Republic of China approaches the 60th anniversary of its founding, Beijing has been unpleasantly surprised by th…
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United States Senator James Webb’s recent visit to Myanmar has come under fire from the Burmese democracy movement. The protests, while sincere and well-intended, miss the point of Webb’s …
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Tomorrow (16th Sept. 2009), the State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC), the Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF) and the Thai Labour Solidarity Committee (TLSC) will petitio…
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A series of seven explosions has hit the northern outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, but no casualties were reported.An official said five blasts went off at the Hlaing Tharyar industrial zo…
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(AP) — YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s ethnic minorities and their militias should give up their arms and honor past agreements to enter politics, the country’s state-controlled media said Thursda…
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:30 New Delhi (Mizzima) – Detained for the past 11 years, Burmese rebels on Thursday told the City Sessions Court in India’s Kolkata city that they were falsely framed …
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