(1) Gov’t will not recognise Rohingya: Thein Sein : Source : DVB
12-Jul-12
Burma’s President Thein Sein told a
visiting delegation from the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees
that the government will not recognize the Rohingya and are considering handing
over the ethnic group to the UNHCR, reported a government
website today.
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(2) Chinese authorities push Kachin refugees back into Burma : Source : DVB
12-Jul-12
Villagers in northern Shan state who
fled into China
as fighting between Kachin Independence Army and Burmese military intensified
were booted out by Chinese border guards.
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(3)US eases investments sanctions against Burma : Source : DVB
12-Jul-12
The United
States gave the green light to companies to invest in Burma including
in oil and gas, in its broadest and most controversial easing yet of sanctions
on the former pariah.
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(4) Call to Put Rohingya in Refugee Camps : Source : RFA
2012-07-12
In the wake of ethnic violence in
Rakhine state, Burma’s
leader says members of the persecuted ethnic group are not welcome.
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(5) Naypyidaw Offers to ‘Hand Over’ Rohingyas to UN : Source : Irrawaddy
12-Jul-12
Burma’s
presidential office released a statement on Wednesday saying that it wants to
hand over responsibility for the Rohingya minority to the UN’s refugee agency
in Arakan State, adding that it is also “willing
to send the Rohingyas to any third country that will accept them.”
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(6) Martyrs’ Day Ceremonies to be Opened to Public : Source : Irrawaddy
12-Jul-12
For the first time in 50 years, the
authorities in Burma
have indicated that ordinary Burmese will be allowed to participate in
ceremonies marking Martyrs’ Day, the anniversary of the assassination of
independence leader Aung San and members of his cabinet on July 19, 1947.
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(7) Farmers Work to Win Back Seized Land : Source : Irrawaddy
12-Jul-12
Farmers from four townships of
Meiktila District in Mandalay Division whose land has been confiscated say they
will go and work their old fields for three days this week in a bid to win them
back.
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(8) General Pegged for Rangoon Chief Minister Position : Source : Irrawaddy
12-Jul-12
An announcement in state media on
Thursday that Lt-Gen Wai Lwin, an actively serving member of Burma’s armed
forces, has been appointed to the Rangoon Division legislature has fueled
speculation that he is set to replace vice-presidential nominee Lt-Gen Myint
Swe as chief minister.
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(9) Serious Abuses Still Rife in Burma: UK Govt : Source : Irrawaddy
12-Jul-12
While welcoming positive political
developments in Burma, a new
report from the UK
government has raised serious concerns regarding ongoing human right abuses in
ethnic areas where armed conflicts continue to rage.
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(10) Human Rights Groups Slam US Sanctions Waiver : Source : Irrawaddy
12-Jul-12
The suspension of US sanctions on Burma to allow
investment in its controversial military-linked oil and gas industries will
have dire consequences for human rights in the country, claim humanitarian
groups.
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(11)
U.S. companies now free to
invest in Burma
: Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 12 July 2012 12:32 Mizzima
News
American companies can now begin
investing in Burma,
following the official lifting of U.S.
investment sanctions against Burma
on Wednesday. For the past 15 years, U.S. companies were prohibited to
make investments in the country.
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(12)
Burmese gov’t to let foreign firms into telephone, Internet market : Source :
Mizzima
Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:51 Mizzima
News
Burma
has started a reform process in the telecommunication field that will lead to
an upgrade of telephone and Internet services in the country, while driving
international investments and lowering prices in the country.
(13) 150 families ordered to move from Three Pagoda Pass : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 12 July 2012 12:50 Kun
Chan
Chiang Mai (Mizzima)
– About 150 Burmese families who have lived on army land with permission in the
Three Pagoda Pass
area will be forced to move from their homes by Nov. 1, according to residents.
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(14) U.N. employees appear in Burmese Court: report : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:20 Mizzima
News
Reports from Arakan State
say three U.N. employess appeared before a court for a hearing on their case on
Tuesday in the Maungdaw District Court, after being detained by the Nasaka, a
border guard force, during the sectarian violence in June.
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(15) Court rejects appeal for medical treatment : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:05 Phanida
Chiang Mai (Mizzima)
– A Kachin man who was arrested and tortured by a Burmese Military Affairs
Security Unit needs medical treatment, his lawyer, Ma Hka, told a Myitkyina Court
judge on Wednesday.
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(16) Old Mon political party approved to register under new name : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:15 Kun
Chan
Chiang Mai (Mizzima)
– The dissolved Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF) that contested in the 1990
general election has been approved by Burma’s Union Election Commission
(UEC) to register under a new name, the Mon Democracy Party (MDP).
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(17)
NLD official’s trial to resume Tuesday : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 12 July 2012 12:22 Mizzima
News
Another hearing in the trial of the
chief spokesman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) was held on Friday
in Naypyitaw. Spokesman Nyan Win is charged with providing false information to
a government official, in regard to information he passed on to the media
during the Apirl 1 by-election.
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(18) HREIB meet with Myanmar Human Right Commission : Source : Karen
12-Jul-12
The Thailand based Human Rights
Education Institute of Burma said they will meet in the near future with the
Myanmar Human Right Commission after being invited to do so recently by
Railways Minister, Aung Min.
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(19) Reforms make little difference in rural Burma, says KHRG in speech to UN Security Council : Source : Karen
12-Jul-12
In a speech to the UN Security Council a
prominent community based human rights organization has expressed concern over
the lack of transparency and accountability surrounding Burma’s reform
process.
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(20) Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar : Source : Nytimes
12-Jul-12
LAST spring,
a flowering of democracy in Myanmar mesmerized the
world. But now, three months after the democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi won
a parliamentary seat, and a month after she traveled
to Oslo to belatedly receive the 1991 Nobel
Peace Prize, an alarm bell is ringing in Myanmar. In the villages of
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(21) Myanmar farmers listen in to tune out hunger : Source : Trust
12-Jul-12
MONYWA, Myanmar
(AlertNet) - Padamyar FM, a radio station covering the Sagaing region of Myanmar’s Dry
Zone, has been broadcasting local market prices of crops, from sesame and maize
to peas and groundnuts, twice a day since March.
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(22) Clinton
to meet Myanmar
leader at business forum : Source : Google
13-Jul-12
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — US Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton and Myanmar President Thein Sein were to hold landmark
talks on Friday as Washington moves to ease US sanctions on the once pariah state.
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(23) Myanmar moots camps or deportation for Rohingyas : Source : New
13-Jul-12
Myanmar's
president told the UN Thursday that refugee
camps or deportation was the "solution" for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal
unrest in the west of the country.
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