(1) Education deal targets migrant students : Source : DVB
2-Oct-12
An
NGO providing assistance to migrant children on the Thai-Burmese border has
reached several agreements with the Burmese officials that will allow migrant
students to enter government schools in Burma and take matriculation exams.
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(2) Burma Moves to Share Revenue : Source : RFA
2012-10-02
A
minister in the president's office says laws should be changed to allocate more
wealth to ethnic states. The Burmese parliament should amend the country’s
constitution to enable the central government to share revenue with ethnic
states on exploiting their natural resources, a government minister said.
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(3) Rights Groups Say Migrants Blocked from Leaving Mae Sot : Source : Irrawaddy
2-Oct-12
Migrant
rights groups say that thousands of Burmese workers living in the Thai border
town of Mae Sot have been prevented from leaving to search for work elsewhere
in Thailand, despite possessing legal work permits that allow them to do so.
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(4) Kachin IDPs Get 4% of Aid from Foreign NGOs : Source : Irrawaddy
2-Oct-12
Thousands
of displaced people in Kachin State received only four percent of their basic
food needs from international relief groups over the last 15 months, according
to a new report.
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(5)
Muslims engage in violent rampage in Bangladesh : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 02 October 2012 12:25
Mizzima News
Bangladesh accused Muslims on Monday
of attacking Buddhist temples near Cox’s Bazar near the Burmese border on
Saturday, where more than a dozen temples and at least 50 homes were set afire
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(6) Myitsone Villagers Plan to Sue CPI : Source : Irrawaddy
2-Oct-12
RANGOON—Backed
by local activists, a group of ethnic Kachin villagers says it plans to sue
China Power Investment Co. (CPI), the Chinese state-backed company that was
granted a license by the former military regime in Burma to construct the
Myitsone Dam.
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(7) Burma Gets its First Investment Bank : Source : Irrawaddy
2-Oct-12
RANGOON—Alisher
Ali knew on the morning of his second day in Burma that the long-closed country
was a risk worth taking. Less than two months later he moved his wife and four
children to crumbling, tree-lined Rangoon and opened Burma’s first-ever
investment bank with US $1 million of his own money.
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(8) The Cost to Burma of a Stalled Investment Law : Source : Irrawaddy
2-Oct-12
Foreign
company executives are being invited to take part in an investment “summit” in
Rangoon this month despite the continued absence of the much-promised new
foreign investment law.
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(9)
Don’t prosecute Burmese peace activists: HRW : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 02 October 2012 12:39
Mizzima News
The Burmese government should drop
charges against activists who organized peaceful demonstrations on
International Peace Day in Rangoon on September 21, Human Rights Watch (HRW)
said on Monday.
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(10) Lifting Sanctions Futile Without Infrastructure: Exporters : Source : Irrawaddy
2-Oct-12
RANGOON—The
lifting of import restrictions of Burmese goods into the United States has
received a cautious welcome from local manufacturers who insist that vastly
improved infrastructure and technology are still required to compete with
neighboring markets.
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(11)
UNFC proposes ‘six-point ethnic peace roadmap’ : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 02 October 2012 12:52
Mizzima News
The United
Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), an alliance of 11 ethnic armed movements,
has sent an alternative “six-point ethnic peace roadmap” to Burma’s President
Thein Sein, outlining the group’s approach to furthering peace among ethnic
groups.
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(12)
International groups failing Kachin aid effort: Kwat : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 02 October 2012 13:15
Mizzima News
International donors have failed to
respond to calls for humanitarian aid for some 60,000 Kachin villagers
displaced along the Burma-China border since renewed conflict broke out in
northern Burma over a year ago, according to data compiled by the Kachin
Women’s Association (Kwat).
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(13) Villagers fear Dawei Project will destroy their way of life : Karen
2-Oct-12
The
local people in Ka Moe Thway area, Tavoy (Dawei) town, in southern Burma have
called for the Thai government to not to build dirty industry near their homes.
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(14)
Myanmar’s Rohingya problem : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 02 October 2012 13:59 Nic
Farrelly
(Commentary) – With the first flushes of
democratisation and the tentative unraveling of Myanmar’s decades of military
rule, let’s not kid ourselves, there are still many problems to resolve.
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(15)
USAID readies for business in Burma : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 02 October 2012 14:10
Mizzima News
The United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) mission in Rangoon wants to start projects in
Burma “as quickly as possible,” said local USAID director Chris Milligan.
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(16) PTT Oil to expand into Burma : Source : Mizzima
2-Oct-12
PTT, Thailand’s largest oil and gas conglomerate,
plans to start an oil retailing operation in Burma with a local partner, the Bangkok Post reported
on Monday.
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(17)
Thein Sein ‘would accept’ Suu Kyi as president : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 01 October 2012 12:22
Mizzima News
Burmese President Thein Sein said he
would accept Aung San Suu Kyi as the president of Burma, if the people voted
for her. He made his remark on the BBC interview program “Hardtalk” on
Friday.
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(18) Activists demand
justice for abducted Kachin women : Source : Kachin
2-Oct-12
Last week the Kachin Women's
Association of Thailand (KWAT) sent President Thein Sein an open letter
demanding that he authorize a re-trial for a court challenge launched by the
family of Sumlut Roi Ja, a Kachin woman arrested by government forces in
eastern Kachin state last year.
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