Sunday, October 7, 2012

Daily Burma Related News (Oct 6, 2012)


(1) British ambassador visits Arakan state : Source : DVB

5-Oct-12
A British delegation led by Ambassador Andrew Heyn toured Arakan state’s capital Sittwe on 2 October where they met with political parties and civil society groups.

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(2) Accident at construction site kills 7 in Shan state : Source : DVB

4-Oct-12
Seven workers were killed and three injured after scaffolding at a construction site collapsed in Shan state’s capital Taunggyi yesterday afternoon.

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(3) Burma’s Journals Brace for Coming Age of Dailies : Source : Irrawaddy

5-Oct-12
After decades of imposing draconian restrictions on privately owned journals, Burma’s censors have discovered a new way to put pressure on the country’s publishers: by lifting a longstanding ban on daily newspapers.

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(4) Burma Calls for Partners to Upgrade Airports : Source : Irrawaddy

5-Oct-12
Burma’s Department of Civilian Aviation (DCA) is urging both foreign and local partners to invest in the country’s international airports, said Win Ko, the general manger of Yangon International Airport last week.

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(5) Small is still beautiful for Burma : Source : Mizzima
Friday, 05 October 2012 14:38 Myat Thu Pan
The attention of the much of Burmese government is now tied up with foreign investments and planning for mega-industrial zones.

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(6) 18 Students Die in Yunnan Mudslide : Source : Irrawaddy

5-Oct-12
BEIJING—All 18 elementary school students buried in a landslide were confirmed dead on Friday, while one other person remained missing a day after a hillside collapsed and smothered part of a village in mountainous southwestern China.

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(7) Buddhist in Sri Lanka condemn religious violence in Bangladesh : Source : Mizzima
Friday, 05 October 2012 13:22 Mizzima News
Hundreds of Buddhist monks from Burma, Thailand and Bangladesh demonstrated in Sri Lanka on Thursday to protest the recent wave of violence targeting Buddhist in Bangladesh.

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(8) Burma inks diplomatic ties with Latvia, Estonia : Source : Mizzima
Friday, 05 October 2012 14:52 Mizzima News

Burma has established ambassadorial diplomatic ties with Latvia and Estonia, the state-run newspaper said on Thursday. Latvia and Estonia are the fourth and fifth countries that Burma has linked up with in 2012 after Malawi, Bhutan and Luxembourg.
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(9) Forced labor continues : Source : Panglong

Friday, 05 October 2012 12:46 S.H.A.N.
Since June, the new government has regained its full membership in the International Labor Organization (ILO) after promising to eliminate forced labor by 2015 and to put the military under civilian laws

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(10) Rights group calls charges to be dropped against Kachin peace protesters : Source : Kachin
5-Oct-12
This week Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Burmese government to drop all charges against 13 activists who organized a September 21 peace day demonstration in Rangoon and Myitkyina.

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(11) Obama signs Myanmar finance bill into law : Source : Google
6-Oct-12
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a measure making it easier for the United States to back international financial institutions which support Myanmar's reform drive.

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