(1) Fighting continues in Kachin state as talks stall : Source : DVB
25-Jul-12
Clashes between the Kachin
Independence Army and Burmese military continue to erupt, while the armed
ethnic group and government’s Peace Making Committee have yet to agree on a
location to hold peace talks.
(2) Suu Kyi calls for protection of ethnic minorities’ rights : Source : DVB
25-Jul-12
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
on Wednesday called for laws to protect the rights of the strife-torn nation’s
myriad ethnic minorities in her inaugural address to the fledgling parliament.
(3) Army still recruiting, exploiting child soldiers : Source : DVB
25-Jul-12
Underage recruits remain in military
posts and deserters are being chased down and recaptured by their units a month
after the government signed an agreement with the UN to prevent the use of
child soldiers in the Burmese Army.
(4) Laws stifle investment in mining sector : Source : DVB
25-Jul-12
International mining companies
flocked to Rangoon
this week to scope out opportunities in the resource-rich country’s untapped
minerals sector during the first Myanmar Mining Summit.
(5) MPs Form Committee to Probe Land Grabs : Source : Irrawaddy
25-Jul-12
The problem of illegal land
confiscations will be investigated by a special new committee of MPs after a
discussion of the issue in Parliament on Wednesday.
(6) Aung Thein Linn Denies Comments : Source : Irrawaddy
25-Jul-12
The chairman of the ruling Union
Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in Rangoon Division, Aung Thein Linn,
denies that he made controversial comments during an interview with Chinese
publication Southern Weekend, according to the party’s general-secretary Htay
Oo who spoke to The Irrawaddy on Wednesday.
(7) Myint Swe New VP in Major Cabinet Shakeup : Source : Irrawaddy
25-Jul-12
Informed sources in Naypyidaw
confirmed that several key ministers will be reshuffled in order to shake up
the government in response to accusations of sluggish reform and strong
resistance from hardliner factions.
(8) Kachin Refugees Face Extreme Food Shortages in Pangwa : Source : Irrawaddy
25-Jul-12
MAI JA YANG—Local aid workers in
eastern Kachin State
say more than 1,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) face extreme food
shortages in a makeshift camp located in government-controlled territory south
of the town of Pangwa.
(9) Troops Kill Five as Indian Race Riots Escalate : Source : Irrawaddy
25-Jul-12
GAUHATI, India—Troops
sent to quell sectarian clashes over land rights in northeast India killed
five people on Tuesday after the government ordered them to shoot suspected
rioters on sight.
(10)
Dawei residents want a seat at the table : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:40
Mizzima News
Residents near the Dawei deep-sea
port and special economic zone said they want details of the agreements signed
by Burma and Thailand this
week, and they want their needs to be taken into account.
(11) Burma rejects visa for Pakistani human rights leader : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 16:44 Mizzima
News
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burma
has refused to grant visas to Pakistani human rights advocate Asnar Burney and
a colleague, who wanted to come to Burma
on a fact-finding mission regarding reports of Rohingya Muslims arbitrarily
arrested and killed in Arakan
State.
(12) Burma’s environment law undergoes revisions : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:21 Nay
Lin Aung
Rangoon (Mizzima) – Burma's new Environmental
Conservation Law (ECL) is in the process of final revisions and should be
completed by the end of this year, according to reports.
(13)
Burma’s average income could
overtake Laos, Cambodia:
minister : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:00
Mizzima News
A Burmese government minister
believes that the country’s average income per person could overtake Laos and Cambodia in two to three years.
(14)
Brutal illegal elephant trade documented in Burma : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 11:49
A video, produced by the Ecologist
Film Unit in association with Link TV and the NGO Elephant Family, shows how
Burmese traders dispatch between 50 to100 calves and young female elephants
from their forest homes each year to be traded illegally in Thailand.
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(15) Captured godfather’s aide claims confession extracted through torture : Source : Panglong
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:02 S.H.A.N.
Sai Aung Myat, No. 2 lieutenant to
Sai Naw Kham, who was arrested by Lao authorities on 25 April and extradited to
China on 10 May over the killing of 13 Chinese sailors on 5 October, is
reported to have maintained that he was forced by Burmese authorities to make a
confession, according to sources close to the suspect currently under custody
in Kengtung.
(16) Brang Shawng's judge warns his lawyer not to share information
: Source : Kachin
25-Jul-12
Testimony from Brawng Shawng’s
trial which has been reportedly leaked to Kachin media has prompted judge U
Myint Htoo to order his lawyer Ma Hka to not share information from court
proceedings with the public.
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