(1) Suu Kyi to visit India next month : Source : DVB
19-Oct-12
Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first
trip in 25 years to India next month, a country where she studied and her
mother served as an ambassador, an organiser said Friday.
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(2) Myanmar Leader Holds 1st Press Briefing : Source : Irrawaddy
21-Oct-12
NAYPYITAW — Myanmar’s reformist
president has held his first press conference for local press, a milestone
after years of secrecy and censorship by the former military regime.
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(3) Karen children get small taste of their own language : Source : Karen
20-Oct-12
Small
girls and boys in a variety of traditional Karen costumes – girls wear striped,
white, blue and yellow dresses, while boys wear red.
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(4) Mine pollution destroys village : Source : Karen
20-Oct-12
Pyaw Pyo villagers claim polluted water from the Heinda Mine, in the
Dawei District in southern Burma, has made their lives unbearable.
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(5) David Taw makes peace : Source : Karen
21-Oct-12
As many as a thousand people turned out to pay their last respects at
Padoh Saw David Taw’s funeral which was held at Thay Bay Hta in the Karen
National Union 7th brigade.
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(6) HIV patients in Myanmar wait to get sicker because broken health system leaves drugs scarce : Source : Washingtonpost
22-Oct-12
YANGON, Myanmar — Thein Aung has been
trained not to show weakness, but he’s convinced no soldier is strong enough
for this.
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(7) Myanmar - An Emerging Natural Resources Powerhouse : Source : Energydigital
21-Oct-12
Industrial growth in Myanmar could potentially
benefit every strata of society, promoting employment opportunities and
economic development, but this would require the country to adopt holistic
development policies in order to compete with other middle-income Asian
nations, states a new report by natural resources experts GlobalData.
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(8) Acer eyes Indochina, Myanmar : Source : Bangkokpost
22-Oct-12
Acer, the
world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, has set up its regional service
and maintenance centre in Thailand to prepare for the advent of the Asean
Economic Community in 2015.
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(9) Myanmar minorities fight to save mother tongue : Source : Thesundaily
Posted
on 22 October 2012 - 08:52am
TAUNGGYI (Oct 22, 2012): For half a
century a single precious copy of a textbook kept the language of Myanmar's
Shan people alive for students, forced to learn in the shadows under a
repressive junta.
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(10) Myanmar state media
to become 'public service' press : Source : Google
21-Oct-12
YANGON — Myanmar's state newspapers,
long mouthpieces of the country's former junta and army hardliners, signalled a
historic change in focus on Saturday, announcing a plan to transform into
"public service media".
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(11) Cambodian PM meets DPRK Assembly vice chair, Myanmar’s VP : Source : Nzweek
21-Oct-12
PHNOM PENH, Oct. 21 — Cambodian Prime
Minister Hun Sen on Sunday afternoon met with Vice Chairman of the Presidium of
the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
(DPRK) Yang Hyong-sop and Myanmar’s Vice President Sai Mauk Kham.
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