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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
Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry held in Bandasri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam last week...At the meeting, Myanmar delegation discussed the reduction of disadvantages of climate change for food sufficiency, regional cooperation and construction of...
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Complaints of forced labour in Burma have risen by nearly 50 percent in the past five months, with more than half of these stemming from the recruitment of youths into the army. The statistics, published in a report by the International Labour Organisation...
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Two ethnic militias in military-ruled Myanmar have become the first to transform their forces into border guards under a government plan aimed at ensuring stability ahead of elections next year, state media said Wednesday. The militias, representing factions...
Tags: New Light of Myanmar, E. Myanmar, border guard, ethnic minority, Kachin
Myanmar and Egypt will cooperate in education, technology and culture under an agreement between the two countries, official newspaper the New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday. The agreement was signed by Myanmar Minister for National Planning and Economic...
Tags: New Light of Myanmar
Prime Minister Thein Sein attended the torching ceremony Saturday in Kokang, a mainly ethnic Chinese region of Shan state, where clashes broke out between the regime and rebels in August, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported.
Tags: Kokang, New Light of Myanmar, Myanmar PM, kokang region
The Burmese-born US citizen currently detained in a Rangoon prison has appeared in court on charges of fraud after allegedly using false identification to enter the country. Lawyers for Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung, said that the courtroom...
Tags: Burma, Thailand, Indian, Myanmarâ, New Light of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, prime minister, Asean&rsquo
Multi-party general election will be held next year and a new government will be formed by a Hluttaw (parliament) in accord with the constitution," said the New Light of Myanmar in its editorial. Holding that sanctions pose a barrier to the economic and...
Tags: New Light of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition leader
Myanmar's military junta this month arrested a US national of Myanmar decent and two ethnic Rakhine dissidents on suspicion of involvement in sabotage acts, a media report said Thursday. Myanmar authorities arrested Nyi Nyi Aung, a former Myanmar student...
Tags: New Light of Myanmar, Kyaw Zaw Lwin, Nyi Nyi Aung, Myanmar, Yangon
Myanmar's junta on Sunday used state-run media to urge the country's myriad ethnic-minority armies to transform themselves into frontier forces before the 2010 general election. An article titled "They will choose the correct way" in The New Light of...
Tags: New Light of Myanmar, frontier forces, general elections, Myanmar, Yangon