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Talks necessary for maritime boundary demarcation
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 2 hours ago
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Auditorium, they said that the national consensus can help to solve the problems. Prof Dr Tareque Shamsur Rehman moderated the dialogue while columnist Farhad Mazhar, Prof Dr Dilara Chowdhury, journalist Jaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, Abu Sayed Khan, Prof Maimul...
Tags: maritime boundary, Rased Ahmed Chowdhury, India, Jaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, Rashed Ahmed Chowdhury, Farhad Mazhar, Bangladesh, Myanmar, prof dr, Yangon
Myanmar biggest hydropower plant to be put on test run
Mandalay :: Myanmar | about 12 hours ago
Credibility The construction of the dam on the Myitnge River involved a number of Chinese companies on contracts signed with the Myanmar side since 2004. The project costs over 600 million U.S. dollars including 400 million dollars borne by the government and 200...
Tags: Myanmar, hydropower plant, biggest hydropower, test run, Mandalay, Myitnge River, Hydroelectricity, Industry of China, Environment
Myanmar, Laos sign visa, taxation treaties+
Yangon :: Myanmar | 1 day ago
Credibility 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
U.N. urges Myanmar to free activist
Yangon :: Myanmar | 1 day ago
Credibility 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
Myanmar to build new railroad to link Chinese border town
Lashio :: Myanmar | 2 days 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
Maoists are terrorists, says Home Secy
Yangon :: Myanmar | 2 days ago
Credibility I have no sympathy for them," Pillai said after a meeting with senior Orissa government officials in Bhubhaneshwar. Stating that coordinated operations by different states with help from the Centre could be beneficial for fighting Maoists, he said no...
Tags: Pillai, Myanmar, Yangon, Politics of India, Orissa, Maoism, Politics of Nepal, War Conflict, Politics, Jharkhand, Singhbhum district, States and territories of India, West Singhbhum, Naxalite, Naxalite-Maoist insurgency, Communist Party of India
Burma blogger faces 15-year sentence
Yangon :: Myanmar | 2 days 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 | 2 days 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 | 2 days 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
ILO Report: The Burmese junta increases forced labour and child soldiers
Yangon :: Myanmar | 3 days ago
Credibility The Burmese junta increases forced labour and child soldiers 50% increase in complaints of forced labour and more than half involving children and young people enrolled in the army. The military junta has inserted a provision in the Constitution that...
Tags: forced labour, Myanmar, Yangon
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