(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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