Contributor ReportsMyanmar junta transforms Kokang rebels into 'border guards'
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Sun Dec 06 06:47:09 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Myanmar's junta has officially transformed the rebel army of the Kokang region into a border guard force under its command, state media reported Saturday. A ceremony marking the metamorphosis from former rebel force to the Kokang border guards was held...
Popular Musician and Friends Arrested in Rangoon
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Fri Dec 04 02:32:59 -0800 2009 | political-news
The arrests came one day after the detention of Aung Zaw Oo, a member of the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters group, who was suspected of planning events to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10. Amnesty International condemned...
Democratic Voice of Burma: Detained US citizen on hunger strike – ...
Source: BurmaNet
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Tue Dec 08 13:07:30 -0800 2009 | political-news
The Burmese-born US citizen currently detained in a Rangoon prison on charges of fraud is staging a hunger strike, his aunt has said. Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung, has met with his family on several occasions...
Right Vision News: Dhaka to push Yangon to end border row
Source: BurmaNet
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Wed Dec 02 12:28:45 -0800 2009 | political-news
Bangladeshi fishermen in the River Naaf and in the Bay and taking necessary steps for confidence building .Mainul is also likely to ask the Myanmar authorities to take back the Myanmar nationals, who were arrested by the Bangladesh law enforcers...
EU to begin Myanmar political dialogue
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Fri Dec 04 12:20:36 -0800 2009 | political-news
Ambassador David Lipman spoke to reporters in Myanmar's main city Yangon after meeting with the country's leader Senior General Than Shwe to obtain diplomatic credentials in the remote capital Naypyidaw a day earlier. "We had a good discussion about future...
Democratic Voice of Burma: Indian rebels admit to Burmese hideouts – ...
Source: BurmaNet
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Fri Dec 04 14:48:04 -0800 2009 | travel-news
According to the Indian newspaper, The Telegraph, they said that more than one hundred militants were living in camps inside Burma. Guwahati [capital of Assam] who were there in Burma for training and other activities,” he said. India had offered...
Sovereignty push on agenda
Source: Telegraph India
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Sun Dec 06 20:31:55 -0800 2009 | political-news
In a discreet move aimed at getting the much-anticipated talks with Ulfa off the ground, the Assam government has requested the Centre to devise a mechanism to incorporate the word sovereignty on the agenda for the proposed talks with the...
Myanmar official media stress active participation in anti-AIDS ...
Source: Xinhuanet.com
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Wed Dec 02 19:24:51 -0800 2009 | health-news
Central Committee in 1989 and related work programs were implemented since then. Beginning 2000, prevention of HIV virus transmission from mother to child was initiated. According to the latest figures, the infection rate of HIV in Myanmar has declined to...
Light sheds on Burma – Ben Stubbs
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Fri Dec 04 17:27:39 -0800 2009 | political-news
Kalaw, Burma –The power shuts down in Kalaw at 8 p.m. every evening. The locals rely on cooking fires or Chinese generators to reveal the muddy potholes and dead ends around town. The streets around the pine-studded hills of northern...
Why globalism is the new villain
Source: India Abroad
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated Thu Dec 03 02:53:21 -0800 2009 | business-news
Visas are more difficult to get, writes Barun Roy. T o many like me, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 appeared to usher in a new world order, and when the Soviet Union finally collapsed two years later...
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