(1) Watchdog slates Bangladesh over Rohingya policy : Source : DVB
23-Aug-12
Human Rights Watch on Thursday
blasted the Bangladeshi government’s “cruel” restrictions on humanitarian aid
to Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution and violence in neighbouring Burma.
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(2) Thai PM set to visit Naypyidaw in September : Source : DVB
23-Aug-12
Following
President Thein Sein’s visit to the ‘Land of Smiles’ in July, Thai Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is set to arrive in Naypyidaw on 13 September,
reports The Nation.
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(3) Experts warn of further concentration of wealth : Source : DVB
22-Aug-12
If
Burma’s reforms stay on track, its growth rate could be on par with Asia’s
fastest growing economies; however, some experts fear the impoverished nation’s
wealth may remain concentrated in the hands of a few.
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(4) Burma’s president discusses tribunal with parliamentary speakers: report : Source : Mizzima
Thursday,
23 August 2012 16:48 Myo Thant
Rangoon (Mizzima)
– Sessions of the Lower House and Upper House of the Burmese Parliament were
cancelled on Thursday to allow the country’s three top leaders to discuss the
Constitutional Tribunal issue, according to parliamentary sources.
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(5) Around 60 Get Prison for Breaking Arakan Curfews : Source : Irrawaddy
23-Aug-12
Courts
in northern Arakan State have sentenced around 60 ethnic Arakanese to six
months in prison for violating curfews imposed following the outbreak of
communal riots in June.
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(6) Fierce Flooding Disrupts Delta Life : Source : Irrawaddy
23-Aug-12
THAPAUNG,
Irrawaddy Delta—Although they live in thatch huts on stilts up to six feet
high, flooding is still an unwelcome annual visitor for those living on
farmland stretching across the Ngawun River in the Irrawaddy Delta—the rice
bowl of Burma.
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(7)
Suu Kyi, Thein Sein meet again in Naypyitaw : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:45
Mizzima News
Burmese opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein met again on Wednesday for private talks, the
second meeting in less than two weeks.
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(8) Kachin Refugees Forced Home by China : Source : Irrawaddy
23-Aug-12
Kachin refugees who fled the
ongoing ethnic conflict in northernmost Burma to live in temporary shelters in
southwestern China’s Yunnan Province have started to return home due to growing
pressure from the Chinese authorities.
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(9)
Economist questions Burma’s Foreign Investment Law : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:03
Mizzima News
Sean Turnell, a leading Burma
watcher, says Burma’s proposed foreign investment law has run up against strong
local opposition in the Parliament, and may go through significant revisions.
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(10) Human Rights Course Forced to Close : Source : Irrawaddy
23-Aug-12
A
week-long human rights training program to empower local people in Yay Nan
Chaung, Magwe Division, was forced to close down by the township Election
Commission for operating without permission.
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(11)
Burma rapidly losing forest coverage : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:22
Mizzima News
Burma’s forest coverage has been
reduced to about one-fifth of the country’s total area, the Natural Resources
and Environmental Conservation Committee of the Lower House of Parliament said
this week.
The total area of forest coverage
was down to 24 per cent in 2008 from 51 per cent in 2005, and 57 per cent in
1962,
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(12) Copper Mine Land Grabs Protest Heats Up : Source : Irrawaddy
23-Aug-12
Tensions
rise among protestors at the Letpadaung mountain range copper mine, in Sagaing
Division, after their demands to be adequately compensated for confiscated land
were rejected by the local authorities.
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(13)
Burmese land ownership a work in progress : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:30
Mizzima News
The agricultural land reform issue
in Burma is rapidly shifting and changes in the wind indicate a pro-farmer
shift might be occurring in both governmental and business policies.
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(14) China’s Navy Goes Global : Source : Irrawaddy
23-Aug-12
China
is developing a ship-based cruise missile that has the capability to attack
targets thousands of kilometers inland, snapshots published by a military enthusiast
website suggest. For the first time, that would give the People’s Liberation
Army (PLA) Navy a weapon comparable to the US’s hugely successful Tomahawk
missile.
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(15)
Economist questions Burma’s Foreign Investment Law : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:03
Mizzima News
Sean Turnell, a leading Burma
watcher, says Burma’s proposed foreign investment law has run up against strong
local opposition in the Parliament, and may go through significant revisions.
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(16)
Drug gang leader questioned by Burmese police : Source : Mizzima
Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:33
Mizzima News
Burmese police traveled to Yunnan
Province in China to interrogate a Burmese national who is suspected in the
murders of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River last year, according to
domestic media.
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(17) Hundreds of refugees sent back from China, more deportations
expected : Source : Kachin
23-Aug-12
[B]Mai Ja Yang, BURMA[/B] — Since the
beginning of this week a large number of refugees have been forced to cross
back into Burma from China, where they had sought shelter following the
outbreak of fighting between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and
Burmese government troops last year.
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