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Mapping humanitarian services in Southeast Burma
The reach of humanitarian organizations serving Burma and Thailand have been mapped by the Thai-Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) and the Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU), showing the organizational reach of services in education, health care and livelihood support ...
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The fading gray line in Burma
(Analysis) - After half a century of having its currency traded on gray and black markets, Burma wants to free up its kyat by the end of next ...
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Burma again on most-censored nations list
(Mizzima) - Burma remains among the 10 most censored nations in the world despite the move from a military regime to a quasi-democratic government, according to the Committee to Protect Journalist, which released their latest report this ...
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Why the burst of Kachin news stories in state-run press
(Analysis) - A number of commentators last week noted more news coverage of Kachin State in the state-run Burmese press, especially an editorial that blamed Kachin "hard-liners" for blocking progress in the on-going peace negotiations between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the ...
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Min Ko Naing on Meiktila
Interview - Meiktila was quiet on Wednesday, March 20. Everyone was going about their business, including the customers in a local gold shop. Somehow an argument broke out in the shop and a customer stormed out. He returned with friends and attacked the gold shop owner who is Muslim. A crowd quickly gathered and the situation spiraled into mob violence--local Buddhists taking sides with the ...
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KIA soldier discusses ’85 assassination of Northern Command leader
A four-member Kachin Independence Army commando team carried out a raid that killed the head of the Northern Command L. Kun Hpang in Myitkyina, Kachin State, in 1985. Special commando, Laphai Zau Seng, who was involved in the assassination, was arrested and given the death sentence. On Monday, Laphai Zau Seng, 49, was released from Myinchan Prison under a presidential amnesty after 27 years in ...
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China pushed to the brink
Mizzima on Monday. In the meantime, an awkward lull in fighting at Laiza perseveres though skirmishes continue in other parts of Kachin State. But while both governments take all precautions to ensure that China does not become embroiled in Myanmar's civil war, a second scenario looms which severely tests Chinese resolve to refrain from direct intervention. The 700-mile-long Shwe Gas ...
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Transcript of Suu Kyi’s VOA interview
Voice of America broadcaster Scott Stearns interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi at VOA in Washington D.C., on Tuesday. Here is a transcript of the ...
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Burma A captive nation or a nation at the crossroads
(Random House UK, 2013), the third Burma-focused work offered by Benedict Rogers of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, is in many respects a tour de force of recent rights violations occurring throughout Burma, with a strong focus on ethnic communities and the periphery of the country. As with his previous ...
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Myanmars western Rakhine state enacts 2-child limit for Muslims to stem sectarian strife
YANGON, Myanmar - Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with the Rohingya's Buddhist neighbours after a spate of deadly sectarian violence, an official said Saturday. Local officials said the new measure -- part of a policy that will also ban polygamy -- will be applied to two Rakhine ...
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Japan PM visit boosts huge Myanmar industrial zone
YANGON (AFP) - Japan's premier on Saturday backed the development of a major industrial zone near Yangon on a visit to Myanmar aimed at deepening economic ties with the former junta-ruled nation.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe observed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding at the Thilawa project on the first day of a trip promoting Japanese business in a country which desperately needs ...
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Myanmar sets two-child limit for Rohyingas
AUTHORITIES in Myanmar's (Burma) western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with their Buddhist neighbours after deadly sectarian violence. A local official said on Saturday that the new measure would be applied to two townships that border Bangladesh and have the highest Muslim population in Rakhine. State spokesman Win ...
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2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with their Buddhist neighbors after deadly sectarian ...
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Planet Payment Announces 2012 Results and Guidance for 2013
, a leading provider of international payment processing and multi-currency processing services, today announced its results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, ...
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Acquia Founder Drupal Project Creator Dries Buytaert Named a Young Global Leader by the World Econo
, the enterprise guide to Drupal, today announced that Acquia co-founder and Drupal project creator Dries Buytaert was named among this year's class of Young Global Leaders by ...
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Behind the Land of Smiles Human Trafficking in Thailand
In 2012 photographer SANDRA LAURIN trekked into remote Hill-Tribe villages in Northern Thailand with the intent to capture images of the life of girls who are at risk of sex trafficking. Poverty, lack of education, and no economic opportunity make Hill-Tribe girls potential victims of sex-traffickers often associated with international criminal organizations. Because tribal members are actually ...
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Centurion Expands Gold Project Strategy in Myanmar
Ba Mauk is located in the northern tip of the north-trending, western volcano-plutonic belt that hosts the highest concentration of gold mines and prospects in Myanmar. Gold mineralization at Ba Mauk that occurs within massive pyrite-quartz tension vein arrays has to date been reported to occur within ten underground tunnels (adits). The adits range from 40 metres (m) to 140 m in depth and ...
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Centurion Advances Gold Mineral Concession Applications in Myanmar
The "Slate Belt" gold concession is located south of Mandalay and covers an area of approximately 103,000 hectares. It is bordered by the Modi Taung gold mine in the south and the Lebyin gold and polymetallic mines in the east. In the late 1990s to early 2000s, the area was part of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. "Block 10". Historical exploration work by Ivanhoe yielded a number of ...
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ICT exhibition to be held in Yangon
An information and communication technology (ICT) exhibition will be held in Yangon next month, aimed at empowering people with IT knowledge and enabling them to get in close touch with modern IT equipment, sources with the IT circle said on Sunday. Sponsored by Myanmar Computer Industry Association (MCIA) and Myanmar Computer Professionals Association (MCPA), the four-day exhibition at the ...
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Military will always have a political role Thein Sein
The army "will always have a special place" in government, Thein Sein is quoted as saying, and he dismissed allegations that the military participated in recent communal violence against the country's Muslim community. "In the lengthy interview, Thein Sein made little attempt to promote a picture of vigorous reform in [Myanmar], or to sell himself as the pivotal leader who ...
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As Burma opens critical NGOs look in
Although Burma is still far from being open and transparent on many issues of business and financing, one consequence of the Thein Sein-led reforms is that the outside world is looking in more closely and ...
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US push on Myanmar enters new phase
After a landmark visit by Thein Sein, the United States is looking to a new phase of greater cooperation to encourage reform with Myanmar as it runs out of major symbolic ...
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Home truths about those Sanctions
Rosie Gogan-Keogh suggested that this activist cabal might be seeking a delay in lifting the remaining sanctions. I think rather that they are seeking the continuance of their suspension. The sanctions were indeed all temporarily lifted in April last year, apart from the arms embargo and the restoration of benefits under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), which is being handled ...
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Blunder in Burma Scrapping of EU Sanctions Sends Wrong Message
Over the past two years, Burma has been emerging from 50 years of brutal military rule at a breathtaking pace. The country has made some impressive and unprecedented changes, including the release of many political prisoners, the rolling back of censorship and the lifting of restrictions to allow opposition political parties, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, to ...
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Myanmar’s Young Expats Consider Returning Home
This week, Myanmar President Thein Sein made his first state visit to Washington. It was the first time in nearly 50 years that one of that country's leaders had been welcomed to the US with full diplomatic fanfare. As Mynanmar takes on more democratic reforms, ex-pats from the country are closely watching too. I met up with two young ex-pats--graduate students at Columbia University in ...
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Foreign couple's novel approach to helping Burmese village
The political situation in Myanmar is well-known throughout the world, but often overshadows the circumstances of local people and our rich culture. A couple overseas have combined the two to create an unusual approach to helping the people of one village in the country.
Myanmar is one of the most politically and socially isolated countries in the world, much bad press is leveled at our country for decisions made and actions taken that the people are not responsible for and while attention focuses on the political dynamic of the country, the plight of many Burmese such as poverty, lack of access to water and education, become overshadowed. One family in the United States has taken a novel approach to giving back to a country that has stolen their hearts. Read more
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