(1) Renowned Burma observer receives visa after decades on black list : Source : DVB
10-Oct-12
Swedish
journalist Bertil Lintner, who has been covering Burma for more than two
decades, is set to visit Rangoon after being blacklisted by the government
since the 1980s.
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(2) Mine Faces Grave Protest : Source : RFA
2012-10-10
Burmese
villagers take to a cemetery to oppose a copper mine.
Over 1,000 villagers invoked the spirits of their ancestors this week to back demands for the closure of a large copper mine in northern Burma, as activists and the mining company filed lawsuits against each other
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(3) Monks rally in Sittwe : Source : DVB
10-Oct-12
Hundreds
of Burmese monks took to the streets Tuesday in Arakan state to protest against
local Muslims and against violence targeting Buddhists in neighbouring
Bangladesh.
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(4) Officials press charges against ‘electricity protestors’ : Source : DVB
9-Oct-12
Activists
who joined the widespread protests calling for sufficient electricity supplies
in Mandalay in May have been charged by the city’s police for demonstrating
without official permission.
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(5) Exiled Comrade Dies : Source : Irrawaddy
10-Oct-12
Just a couple of weeks before his
autobiography was due to be launched in Burma, former Brig-Gen Kyaw Zaw, one of
the two surviving “Thirty Comrades” and ex-leader of the Burmese Communist
Party, passed away on Wednesday morning in a Kunming hospital in southern
China.
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(6)
Thein Sein, Lee firm up energy ties : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:12
Mizzima News
Burmese President Thein Sein met
with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at Blue House in Seoul on Tuesday.
The two leaders agreed to strengthen economic cooperation and to pursue gas
development and power plant construction.
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(7)
Suzuki to build car plant in Burma : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:29
Mizzima News
Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor
Corp. says it has plans to build a car production factory in the Thilawa
Special Economic Zone located about 25 kilometres south of Rangoon.
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(8) Rakhine Women, Monks Protest OIC : Source : Irrawaddy
10-Oct-12
More
than 500 Arakanese Buddhist women took to the streets of Sittwe on Wednesday to
protest the government decision to allow the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) to open an aid office in Arakan State.
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(9)
Shan forces want talks with peacemaking group : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:39
Mizzima News
Facing an ultimatum to withdraw from
a military stronghold, the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA)
said it would seek to meet with the Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) to
resolve the issue.
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(10)
Early fossil discovery in remote Hukawng Valley : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:03
Mizzima News
An article published in October by
researchers at an US university shows a 100-million-year-old fossil of a spider
about to attack a wasp in the Hukawng Valley of Burma.
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(11)
Foreign airlines stacking up flights into Rangoon : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:36
Mizzima News
EVA Airways Corp. (EVA), Taiwan's
second largest carrier, launched three-times a week direct flights between
Taipei and Rangoon on Tuesday, according to airline sources.
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(12)
Property prices shoot up in Rangoon : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:22
Mizzima News
Choice property values in Rangoon
have soared, rising 39 per cent in the first nine months of this year,
according to a survey by an investment bank in Rangoon.
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(13) Armed Forces chief meet with Wa, Mongla more than just about drugs: analyst : Source : Panglong
Wednesday,
10 October 2012 11:35 S.H.A.N.
According
to Aung Kyaw Zaw, Burmese military watcher on the Sino-Burmese border, the
visit to Kengtung last Saturday, 6 October of Vice Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing
to meet Wa and Mongla leaders, might be more about the Burma Army’s military
objectives than just drugs.
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(14) More Burma army forces fall in battle in jade rich Hpakant :
Source : Kachin
10-Oct-12
[B]HPAKANT, BURMA —[/B] At least 6 Burmese
soldiers were killed and as many as 15 injured Tuesday following two separate
attacks by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in the jade rich Hpakant region
of western Kachin state, according to local KIA officials.
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