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Democratic Voice of Burma: Burma to open private schools and hospitals – Ahunt Phone Myat
Bangkok :: Thailand | about 9 hours ago
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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
Myanmar to build new railroad to link Chinese border town
Lashio :: Myanmar | about 15 hours ago
Credibility 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
Spirit of Panglong in Kolkata Court
Toronto :: Canada | about 21 hours ago
Credibility 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
C4 Dispatches films win Peck awards
Lagos :: Nigeria | about 22 hours ago
Credibility 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
Democratic Voice of Burma: Jail term extended for 2007 activist – Khin Hnin Htet
Bangkok :: Thailand | 1 day ago
Credibility 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
Burmese junta confiscates public oil wells and refinery for Chinese company
Shanghai :: China | 1 day ago
Credibility 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
Burma to ‘double output’ of gas by 2020 – Joseph Allchin
Ascope :: Peru | 1 day ago
Credibility 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
Burma blogger faces 15-year sentence
Yangon :: Myanmar | 1 day ago
Credibility 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
Burmese junta collects funds for new border guard force
Myitkyina :: Myanmar | 1 day ago
Credibility The business community is being forced to pay a fixed amount of money by the Burmese military junta in Kachin State in northern Burma as funds for “forming Border Guard Force”. The money will be used to change the Kachin ceasefire group, the New Democratic...
Tags: BGF, Kachin State, million kyat, Myitkyina, Myanmar, Burma, Hpakant Township, Myitkyina District, War Conflict, Hpakant, Myanma kyat, Politics
Irrawaddy: Myint Swe: The Tatmadaw’s next top dog? – Min Lwin
Yangon :: Myanmar | 1 day ago
Credibility Lt-Gen Myint Swe is being widely tipped to succeed Snr-Gen Than Shwe as the Burmese army’s next commander in chief, according to several dissidents in exile and Burma observers. Rumors have circulated that Myint Swe is junta strongman Than Shwe’s favored...
Tags: Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, United Nations General Assembly, North Korea, Burmese, United States, Barack Obama, hopes suu, quarterly meeting, Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Yangon, Military intelligence of Burma, Myanmar Army, Myint Swe, Myanmar Armed Forces, Military of Burma, Defence Services Academy, Than Shwe, War Conflict, Politics, Thein Sein, Aung San, Outline of Burma, International reaction to the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, Politics of Burma, Year of birth missing, Burmese anti-government protests, Burmese general election, Massacres, Protests
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