PDF – _628_ Paper Flower and Natural Flower
Ko Ko Aung

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PDF – _627_ Run to the Good Merit
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Kachin State, Burma 15 November, 2011
map showing area of report
Fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burma Army broke out on 9 June 2011, ending a 17-year cease-fire agreement between the two groups. As many as 20,000 people have been displaced by the fighting in Kachin State, [...]

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Shan Drug Watch 2011 report: What it is all about

Thursday, 17 November 2011 14:53 S.H.A.N.

One of the 3 main plots of ‘Traffic’, the Oscar-winning movie in 2001, was about a general who was waging war against a drug cartel in Mexico. Applauded by the Americans [...]

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Kanbawza Win
The Burmese supremo Than Shwe and his bunch of generals have amassed immense wealth since 1988 but most of them being septuagenarian and octogenarian knew that their days on this earth are numbered. At the same time they realise that the rising tide of democracy cannot be stop, hence, the thought of how to [...]

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AFP – Myanmar ‘to move key jailed dissidents’
AFP – Rare Myanmar monk protest enters second day
AFP – Myanmar set to defy critics with nod as ASEAN host
Reuters – Japan sees investment opportunities in Myanmar
UPI – Suu Kyi cautious over Myanmar progress
The Nation – Burma: Drug lords join Burmese Parliament
Bloomberg [...]

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Please find attached EBO’s 33rd Political Monitor report.
PMNo.33-15-11-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
If you would like to be removed from or added to this list, please email bxl@euro-burma.be.
Euro-Burma Office
Square [...]

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AFP – Myanmar prisoner amnesty delayed
AP – New plea made to free Myanmar political prisoners
UPI – Myanmar commission seeks more amnesties
Reuters – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi urges peace talks, prisoner release
Reuters – Bomb kills 10, wounds 27 in northern Myanmar
Reuters – Thai Ratchaburi to build power plants in Myanmar’s Dawei
GMA News [...]

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AFP – Suu Kyi ‘likely’ to stand in Myanmar by-election
AFP – US ready to be Myanmar’s ‘partner’: Clinton
AP – Thai, Indonesia win golds before SEA Games opening
The Asahi Shimbun – Myanmar activist calls for release of political prisoners
Xinhua – Myanmar president meets CPC delegation
Asian Correspondent – To prove irreversible reform, [...]

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UPI – Myanmar hunger strikes trouble U.N.
Asia Sentinel – Burma Completes a Year of “Democracy”
USA Today – Column: Finally, U.S. has opening in Burma
ABC Radio Australia – Thai floods cut off Burma’s remittance life-line
ABC Radio Australia – Burma feels Thai floods economic pain
AFP – China to send armed patrols on Mekong: [...]

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Please find attached EBO’s 32nd Political Monitor report.
PMNo.32-07-11-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
If you would like to be removed from or added to this list, please email bxl@euro-burma.be.
Euro-Burma Office
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AsiaNews.it – Kachin: women kidnapped and raped by the Burmese army
UN News Centre – Myanmar: UN rights expert voices concern over health of political prisoners
Reuters – INSIGHT: Brutal prisons complicate Myanmar’s reform push
Washington Post – Chinese-funded hydropower project sparks anger in Burma
Washington Post – Surprising changes, but no revolution, in [...]

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Please find attached EBO’s 31st Political Monitor report.
PMNo.31-02-11-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
If you would like to be removed from or added to this list, please email bxl@euro-burma.be.
Euro-Burma Office
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Dear Friends,
Please find attached the October 2011 issue of ALTSEAN Burma Bulletin.
October 2011 Burma Bulletin
The Burma Bulletin is a short month in review of events in Burma, particularly those of interest to the democracy movement and human rights activists.
In the October 2011 issue you will find:
* Mass release of prisoners
* Crimes, [...]

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Suu Kyi says Myanmar has taken positive steps
November 14, 2011 05:32 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday that Myanmar’s government has taken positive steps toward reform in the year since she was released from house arrest but more needs to be done, including freeing hundreds more [...]

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Release of Myanmar political prisoners may be soon
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November 13, 2011 07:15 AM EST | 

YANGON, Myanmar — A government-appointed human rights body on Sunday urged Myanmar’s president to release political prisoners or transfer them to prisons close to their families, signaling such action may be imminent.
Speculation is considerable that a [...]

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Release of Myanmar political prisoners may be soon
November 13, 2011 07:15 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — A government-appointed human rights body on Sunday urged Myanmar’s president to release political prisoners or transfer them to prisons close to their families, signaling such action may be imminent.
Speculation is considerable that a new amnesty covering some [...]

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Analysis: New Myanmar’s changes are no revolution
GRANT PECK | November 8, 2011 09:55 AM EST |
BANGKOK — Myanmar’s elections last year seemed like just another self-serving maneuver by the country’s generals to keep their thumbs on the scales of power. Then some surprising things began to happen.
The new government eased censorship, legalized labor unions, suspended [...]

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