(1) Activists call for peace in Rangoon : Source : DVB
21-Sep-12
Peace
activists in Rangoon who planned to travel to Naypyidaw early this morning to
call for an end to the country’s civil wars were prevented from leaving the
city by authorities.
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(2) Suu Kyi addresses Pussy Riot, Burmese Army in DC : Source : DVB
21-Sep-12
Aung
San Suu Kyi, on a landmark visit to the US, called Thursday for the release of
jailed members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot.
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(3) Conditions Grim for Rohingya : Source : RFA
2012-09-21
A
U.S. delegation gives a bleak report after gauging conditions under which the
stateless Rohingya live in Burma and Bangladesh.
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(4) Honors After Passport Row : Source : RFA
2012-09-20
Five
Burmese activists receive the 2012 National Democracy Award. Five Burmese
activists were honored with a democracy award at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday,
in a ceremony marred by the absence of one of their number —Min Ko Naing,
Burma’s most famous democracy crusader after Aung San Suu Kyi.
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(5)
Thailand’s migrant verification deadline Dec. 14 : Source : Mizzima
Friday, 21 September 2012 12:42
Mizzima News
Several hundred
thousand Burmese migrant workers in Thailand could face deportation if they
fail to register under the government’s National Verification Programme (NVP)
before a Dec. 14 deadline.
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(6)
The Voice defamation suit to go to trial : Source : Mizzima
Friday, 21 September 2012 13:30
Mizzima News
A defamation suit involving the Voice
Weekly and a Burmese ministry will go to trial on October 5, after a court
announced it accepted the charge on Thursday.
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(7) Peace Day Protest Goes Ahead in Rangoon : Source : Irrawaddy
21-Sep-12
RANGOON—In
the largest popular demonstration since the monk-led 2007 Saffron Revolution,
hundreds of protesters marched through Rangoon on Friday to mark International
Peace Day and to demand an end to the ongoing conflicts in Burma’s ethnic
regions.
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(8)
Thein Sein opens China-Asean trade exhibition : Source : Mizzima
Friday, 21 September 2012 13:19
Mizzima News
Burma’s President Thein Sein will return from a goodwill visit to
China on Friday, after attending the 9th China-Asean Expo in
Nanning, the capital of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He will speak
to the UN General-Assembly in New York City on Thursday.
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(9)
State-run Burmese newspaper mentions Suu Kyi’s US trip : Source : Mizzima
Friday, 21 September 2012 13:44
Mizzima News
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s
US trip has been mentioned for the first time in The New Light of Myanmar,
a rare sign that Burma’s state-run press is slowly opening up to broader
coverage of Burmese politics.
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(10) Top Hotel Brands Coy on Burma Ventures : Source : Irrawaddy
21-Sep-12
The
predicted expansion of Rangoon’s hospitality industry to offer world-standard
accommodation options seems to be stalling with leading hotel brands thinking
twice before entering the Burmese market.
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(11) Burma Must Work Together to Prosper: Suu Kyi : Source : Irrawaddy
21-Sep-12
WASHINGTON
DC—Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday urged her countrymen to work
together for prosperity while acknowledging that this might not be a simple
task to achieve.
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‘None should be left behind’ : Source : Mizzima
Friday, 21 September 2012 14:19
Mizzima News
The United Nations
Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana,
haswelcomed the latest presidential amnesty resulting in the release of a
number of prisoners of conscience,
(13) Price of Gold Skyrockets in Burma : Source : Irrawaddy
21-Sep-12
The
price of gold has skyrocketed in Rangoon this month from 765,000 kyat (US $884)
a tical (0.58 oz), to a high of 794,000 kyat ($918) per tical by Sept. 14., the
highest price ever on gold markets in Burma, the equivalent of $1,588 per
ounce.
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(14) Minister Without Borders: Costs for peace paid from own pocket : Source : Panglaong
Friday, 21
September 2012 15:12 S.H.A.N.
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