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The activists including popular woman activist Naw Ohn Hla were arrested on October 3, for offering alms to monks at the Magwe monastery in Dagon satellite township of Rangoon, on the eve of Thadingyut festival. The four are being tried at a special tribunal...
Tags: buddhist scripture, women activists, Burma, Kyaw Hoe, buddhist monks, Rangoon, Naw Ohn Hla, Myanmar, Pyinmana, Burmese anti-government protests, Yangon, Aung San Suu Kyi, Shwedagon Pagoda, Law Crime, Buddhist pilgrimage, Index of Burma-related articles, Stupas
The New Light of Myanmar . �It spent 191.4 million kyat in 2007 in fighting the disease. Burma, it is difficult to see how the regime can take much credit for that success. Spending 191.4 million kyat�around US $200,000�certainly isn't going to make much...
Tags: Myanmar, Yangon, Burma, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, Myanma kyat, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, United States dollar, AIDS, Social Issues, Exchange rate, Business Finance, Aung San, Economy of Burma, HIV/AIDS in Burma, Currency, Health in Burma
Japan will help Myanmar produce energy from plastic waste disposed daily in the city of Yangon, sources with the Yangon division administration said on Tuesday. City dwellers are being advised to dispose their plastic waste separately so as to enable...
Tags: plastic bag, Myanmar, plastic waste, Yangon, myanmar produce, produce energy, help myanmar, Japan
The department has warned 1,035 motor cycles, owned by various government departments, to stop running before Dec...Previously, all types of motorcycles, except authorized departmental ones, were banned for running on roads in the municipal area. According...
Tags: motor cycles, Yangon, municipal area, departmental motorcycles, total ban, Myanmar, Environment, Burma, Motorcycle, Yangon Division, Disaster Accident
Day which falls on Tuesday and the motto of this year's event is designated as "Avoid Stigma and Discrimination: Access to Services for Everyone". Committee in 1989 and has been fighting the pandemic as a national movement since then. Transmission of...
Tags: Myanmar, Yangon, AIDS, Social Issues, HIV/AIDS in Asia, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, Burmese anti-government protests, Health Medical Pharma, HIV/AIDS, Burma, Aung San, Phyu Phyu Thin, Pandemics, Aung San Suu Kyi, World AIDS Day
A three-member delegation of BJP led by the party`s organising secretary of the north eastern states P Chandrasekhar, Laimayum Bashanta, secretary organisation and media affairs, BJP, Manipur Pradesh and Premananda Sharma, secretary north east forum met...
Tags: NE BJP, Manipur Pradesh, fake encounter, bjp leaders, Myanmar, Yangon, Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindutva, Organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Politics, Sushma Swaraj, Leader of the Opposition, Arun Jaitley, Lal Krishna Advani
Photographer Lisa Kristine will host a holiday reception at her gallery on the Plaza in Sonoma on Tuesday, Dec...Known for shooting humanity worldwide, Kristine will introduce her new works from Thailand and Myanmar. Kristine was most recently honored...
Tags: St. E. Lisa Kristine/Special, Photographer Lisa Kristine, Myanmar, Yangon, Kristine W, 14th Dalai Lama, Lisa Kristine, Sonoma California
The trafficking from Myanmar includes opium and morphine-based products as well as ATS, he said. There has also been “an increased degree of cashing (in) of the products within Myanmar, in anticipation of exposure of those products through contacts with...
Tags: Myanmar, Singaporean, Yangon, Burma, Illegal drug trade, Methamphetamine, Golden Triangle, Business Finance, Social Issues, Opium, Drugs in Cambodia, Smuggling, Military dictatorship
THE Three Diseases Fund will undertake a “scoping study” in the coming weeks to identify areas donors can contribute to when the present project cycle is completed in 2011. The decision comes after the Global Fund board approved all three of Myanmar’s...
Tags: Myanmar Country Coordination Mechanism, global funding, diseases funding, Myanmar, Yangon, Burma, World Health Organization, Global health, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Business Finance, Tuberculosis, International nongovernmental organizations
The gas is due to come from two major projects coming on stream -- Shwe and Zawtika -- leading to increases in onshore gas production, and the construction of a new pipeline linking the older Yadana offshore gas project with the capital Yangon...In fiscal...
Tags: Myanmar Times, Domestic Natural Gas, Myanmar, Yangon, Environment, Energy in Thailand, Burma, Business Finance, Yadana Project, Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, Economy of Burma, Natural gas