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Engaging Burma (www.voanews.com)
For years a military government has ruled Burma wielding repressive power that denies its people basic freedoms, persecutes ethnic minorities, jails political opponents and quashes even peaceful... More
Submitted 5 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
Burma to Circulate 5,000 Kyat Currency Note (www.mizzima.com)
Burma’s state-run media on Thursday announced that a new 5,000 Kyat denomination currency note will be in circulation from October 1.
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US Citizen Arrest a ‘Political Smear Campaign’ (www.dvb.no)
The recent arrest of a US citizen in Burma on grounds that he was part of a plot by an opposition group to launch terrorist attacks has been dismissed as political smearing by the group’s chief.
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US Embassy Protests Maltreatment of Detained Citizen (www.mizzima.com)
The US embassy in Rangoon has officially protested against the alleged maltreatment of detained American citizen, Kyaw Zaw Lwin (alias) Nyi Nyi Aung, as the Burmese junta on Thursday publicly... More
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Burmese-American Held In Rangoon For 3 Weeks - TIME (www.time.com)
The U.S. Embassy said Tuesday that it has been allowed to visit a Burma-born American detained in the country for the past three weeks but refused to divulge details about his health or whereabouts.
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Making sense of Burma's new capital (www.mizzima.com)
Capitals move. And capitals often move, as in the case of Burma's generals uprooting the country's administrative center from Rangoon to Naypyidaw, for quite rational and sensible reasons. This, in a... More
Submitted 8 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Two children abducted into Burmese army (www.dvb.no)
Two 14-year-old boys in Rangoon who were abducted into the army but then disqualified on fitness grounds have been forcibly sent to other military camps around Burma, according to the mother of one of... More
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NLD in Dilemma (www.irrawaddy.org)
Key members of Burma’s main political opposition party, the National League for Democracy, have gathered in Rangoon—with little harassment from the regime—to discuss the 2010 election issue.
Submitted 10 months ago by mbentson | 0 Comments |
Postcard from Rangoon (www.time.com)
Despite losing Burma's last elections in 1990, the junta has kept a firm grip on power.
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Capturing Burma's protests on film (news.bbc.co.uk)
A monk looks into a camera at a monastery in Rangoon. His face is bruised and swollen.
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