(1)
‘Epidemic’ of land grabbing in Burma:
report : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 07 June 2012 14:07 Mizzima
News
The convergence of military, business
and government interests aimed at displacing farmers and residents from their
homes poses grave dangers for Burma,
the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) said in a new
(2)
Australia
lifts remaining sanctions : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 07 June 2012 13:28 Mizzima
News
Burmese opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi welcomed Australia's
Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Wednesday after talks at her home in Rangoon. Carr, who will
meet President Thein Sein on Thursday, is expected to discuss the further
easing of sanctions.
(3)
Gov’t appoints committee to investigate Muslim murders : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 07 June 2012 13:11 Mizzima
News
A government investigative committee
has been formed to determine the cause and identify the perpetrators in the
murder of at least nine Muslims in Arakan
State on Sunday.
(4) Kachins to Mark Anniversary of War : Source : Irrawaddy
7-Jun-12
Hundreds of ethnic Kachin people,
both in Burma and abroad,
are marking the anniversary of an outbreak in hostilities between the Kachin
Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese army by holding demonstrations
in cities including Canberra and Bangkok.
(5) Menu needs change to rebuild the Union : Source : Panglong
Thursday, 07 June 2012 10:59 S.H.A.N.
If peace is to be restored and the Union is to be rebuilt, the government must stop acting
like a restaurant that offers only dishes it likes, according to an activist
who has asked not to be named.
(6) Voice of America to Open Burma Office : Source : Irrawaddy
7-Jun-12
Burmese service of Voice of
America (VOA) has agreed to open an office in Burma in the near future and share
programs with state-run broadcasters.
(7) NGO Workshop Hints at Return of Refugees : Source : Irrawaddy
7-Jun-12
A workshop in Mae La refugee camp
by the Thai-Burmese border has set the groundwork for the possible repatriation
of displaced civilians—perhaps by 2015.
(8) Tata to Begin Truck Sales in Burma : Source : Irrawaddy
7-Jun-12
Indian business giant Tata Motors
has confirmed that it will soon begin selling heavy trucks to Burma as part of
a purchase and sale agreement with Burma’s Apex Greatest Industrial Co.
(9) Myanmar's media takes on its 'Minitrue' : Source : Bangkokpost
7-Jun-12
Journalists and
writers hate censorship. Everyone despises it when their stories are censored.
That's why a tug of war between Myanmar's
Information Ministry, or the censors, and media, or the censored, is becoming
entrenched in the country.
(10) Myanmar issuing new higher value bank note : Source : News
7-Jun-12
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar will issue next week
a 10,000-kyat bank note that will be the
country's highest-denomination currency, the country's central bank announced
Thursday.
(11) Gold rush: making it in Myanmar - how to do business in Burma : Source : SMH
7-Jun-12
In March, Burma’s
government did the unthinkable. The country which, to quote the Wall
Street Journal, was “long dismissed as an isolated, paranoid
military junta ruling from a fortified enclave in the middle of the jungle”
granted fairly contested local elections for the first time in decades.
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