2-Aug-12
Villagers
claim some headmen and businessmen are doing illegal logging
without discussing
it with the community between Tang Hpre village and
Chyinghkrang village near
Mali Hka River Confluence (Irrawaddy River Confluence).
Since the FTUB/M was formed in 1991, we are working to restore democracy, human rights, social justice and trade unions for Burma and the people of Burma.
Friday, August 03, 2012
Burma business arrivals increasing rapidly
Thursday, 02 August 2012 13:39
Mizzima News
The number of business people
entering Burma is gaining on the number of
tourists. Both groups totaled about
half a million by the end of June and
the number of arrivals is expected to
reach 1 million before the end of the year.
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Farmers will sue over denial of protest rights
2-Aug-12
Rangoon (Mizzima) – A group of farmers said they will prepare a lawsuit
after Labutta Township officials denied them a permit to stage a demonstration
over the confiscation of their land.
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Villagers unhappy with ITD relocation plans
2-Aug-12
Kalone Hta villagers are dissatisfied with the Italian-Thai Company
relocation
plans for their village that will make way for a hydropower dam that
will flood their homes and farmlands.
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Lower House supports minister in rejection of investigation committee
Thursday, 02 August 2012 14:01
Mizzima News
Burma’s Lower House voted on
Wednesday to reject a proposal to form a
government committee to investigate labour
strikes in Rangoon over recent months.
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Burma’s VP says racial, religious tensions caused Rakhin unrest
Thursday, 02 August 2012 13:16
Mizzima News
Burmese Vice President Sai Mauk Kham
has told a government committee
coordinating relief in Rakhine State that
violence there was based on racial
and religious tensions and a long-term
solution was needed.
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Thai University to Sign MoU with Burma
2-Aug-12
A leading Thai university, the
Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna
(RUMTL), will soon sign a Memorandum
of Understand (MoU) with Burma’s
Department of Higher Education (Lower Myanmar)
with the aim
of exchanging educational programs.
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Worker Strike Probe Shot Down by MPs
2-Aug-12
A proposal to form a committee to
investigate worker strikes, which took place
in Rangoon factories to demand
wages hikes over the past year, was rejected
by Burma’s Lower House of
Parliament after a vote on Wednesday.
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Media committee calls for better protection of press
2-Aug-12
The indefinite suspension of two
prominent news journals, The Voice and Envoy,
has journalists calling for
better protection of Burma’s fourth estate.
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Bangladesh targets charities working with Rohingya
2-Aug-12
Bangladesh has ordered three
international charities to stop providing aid
to Rohingya refugees who cross
the border to flee persecution and violence
in Burma, an official said
Thursday.
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Political prisoner beaten at Insein
2-Aug-12
Officials at Rangoon’s Insein prison
beat a political prisoner, who was being
transferred from Arakan state’s Sittwe
prison to Pegu’s Tharawaddy prison,
during a brief stopover at the facility on
31 July.
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Burma gov’t failed to prevent Arakan violence
1-Aug-12
The Burmese government could have
prevented the recent sectarian violence
in Arakan state, which killed at least
78 people and displaced 100,000, but
instead stood by and watched abuses
perpetrated against both Arakanese
and Rohingya communities, according to Human
Rights Watch (HRW).
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