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Related Tags: myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, burmese, thailand, human rights, china, cyclone nargis, house arrest, yangon, political prisoners

Yangon :: Myanmar | about 5 hours ago

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Notes were exchanged after agreements were signed by Laotian Deputy Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and Myanmar's foreign and finance ministers at a ceremony in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyitaw, the New Light of Myanmar said...It is Myanmar's...

Tags: New Light of Myanmar, Laos, Myanmar, Yangon, Burma, Politics, Least Developed Countries, Thongloun Sisoulith, Thein Sein

Yangon :: Myanmar | about 11 hours ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A key U.N. committee late Thursday strongly condemned human rights violations in Myanmar and urged the government to release more than 2,000 political prisoners and open the upcoming elections to all political parties. Myanmar's United Nations Ambassador...

Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, U.N. General Assembly, AP U.N., Yangon, National League for Democracy, International reaction to the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, John Yettaw, Politics of Burma, Burma, Politics, Social Issues

Bangkok :: Thailand | about 23 hours ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Private schools and hospitals abolished under the former Ne Win regime in Burma are to reopen in an attempt to generate more revenue in the country and improve the struggling sectors. The government’s health ministry announced a 21-point criteria list...

Tags: Burma Socialist Programme Party, private schools, boarding tuition, Thailand, Bangkok, Myanma kyat, Education in Burma, High schools in Burma, Politics, Burma, Military dictatorship, Ne Win, Education

Lashio :: Myanmar | 1 day ago

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Rail track tracing work has been carried out and the railway station is planned to lie at Sone Kwe village near Lashio-Muse Union Road, the sources said. Since decades ago, trading goods were transported by motor cars and trucks and once the railroad...

Tags: Myanmar-China, border trade, Jie Guo, border town, Myanmar, Lashio, Lweje, Burma, Kokang, Shan State, Muse, Ruili City, Yunnan

Toronto :: Canada | 1 day ago

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For the lawyers practicing at the city sessions court in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal Thursday, November 12 th , 2009 was just another busy day. They passed by the court of Ms Kavita Dey without as much as a second look. For them the scene was...

Tags: Indian Military Intelligence, freedom fighters, Mr Harn Yawnghwe, Burmese, Indians, Euro Burma Office, Dr Tint Swe, Kolkata Court, Spirit of Panglong, wooden cage, Canada, Toronto, Shan, Panglong Conference, Burma, Military dictatorship, Aung San Suu Kyi

Lagos :: Nigeria | 1 day ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Two Channel 4 Dispatches films honoured at Rory Peck awards Orphans of Burma's Cyclone and Saving Africa's Witch Children honoured at awards for freelance cameramen 'A third of Burmese children were malnourished even before the cyclone hit' .....Photograph:...

Tags: Rory Peck, peck awards, Nigeria, Lagos, Shamil Basayev, Reuters, Freelancer, Martin Adler, CNN, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Saving Africa's Witch Children, Burma, Nargis, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Dispatches

Bangkok :: Thailand | 1 day ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

An activist whose group played a key role in sparking the September 2007 monk-led uprising in Burma has had his 10-year prison sentence extended by eight years, sources close to his family said. Kan Myint, who spent four years in prison in the early...

Tags: unlawful associations, Burma, associations act, Thailand, Bangkok, Politics of Burma, Burmese literature, Military dictatorship, Insein Prison, Law Crime

Shanghai :: China | 1 day ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Burmese military authorities have recently seized publicly-owned oil wells that were dug by hand and a refinery on oil-rich Rambree Island in western Burma’s Arakan State for the benefit of Chinese company, reports a local resident. The resident said...

Tags: oil wells, dug oil, Chinese, Munprun Village, China, Shanghai, Oil well, Petroleum industry, Water well, Rakhine State, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Burma, Environment

Ascope :: Peru | 1 day ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Burma is to double its output of natural gas in the next 10 years, the country’s sole operator of oil and gas production told a regional trade fair in Bangkok yesterday. Energy experts believe Burma’s offshore Bay of Bengal gas fields could house Southeast...

Tags: Burma, Peru, Ascope, Cyclone Nargis, Politics of Burma, Burmese diaspora, Economy of Burma, Myanma kyat, Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, Sino¬タモBurma pipelines, Business Finance, Politics, Military dictatorship, Than Shwe

Yangon :: Myanmar | 1 day ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A young blogger, Win Zaw Naing, is facing a possibly 15-year jail sentence just for posting pictures and reports about the September 2007 protests, known as the Saffron Revolution. Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association call for his...

Tags: Burma Media Association, Win Zaw Naing, Myanmar, Yangon, Protests, U Thant, Burma, Burmese anti-government protests, Massacres

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