16-Aug-12
On Saturday, August 11, Burmese government troops gang raped a teenaged
Shan
girl—the 14-year-old daughter of U Thein Win, the headman from Tung Pin
Village in Kachin State’s Mohnyin district.
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 17, 2012
Elected Shan leader calls for more power to the states
Thursday, 16 August 2012 11:30 S.H.A.N.
Hkun Htoon Oo, leader of the Shan
Nationalities League for Democracy
(SNLD) that won statewide in the 1990
elections, yesterday called for
more decentralization by the central government
for the states and regions,
according to reports from Rangoon.
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ATM debit card rollout to start in September
Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:54 Theingi
Tun
Rangoon
(Mizzima)
– Burmese consumers will be able to use a Myanmar
Payment Union (MPU) debit
card in September to withdraw money at ATM
machines of participating banks and
to buy goods at some stores.
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Heavy flooding destroys 9,500 acres of rice in eastern Burma
16-Aug-12
Record monsoon rains in eastern Burma destroyed thousands of acres
of
rice cultivated by villagers and there are no sign the rains are likely
to ease
any time soon.
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SNLD party leader calls for more gov’t decentralization
Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:21
Mizzima News
The head of the newly registered Shan Nationalities League for Democracy
(SNLD) has called for more decentralization of regions and states
by the Burmese government.
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World Bank to fund ‘model villages’ in Burmese townships
Thursday, 16 August 2012 13:10
Mizzima News
A World Bank development program in
Burma plans to set up model villages
in more than 300 townships, in addition to
creating 15 plans to alleviate
chronic poverty in rural areas.
Flooding closes 41 schools in Pathein
Thursday, 16 August 2012 14:01 Kyaw
Phone Kyaw
Rangoon
(Mizzima)
– Forty-one schools in Pathein [Bassein] Township,
a flood-stricken area in
Irrawaddy Region, have been closed since Wednesday,
due to heavy monsoon rains.
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Drought Hits Central Burma despite Delta Floods
16-Aug-12
Despite flooding across the Irrawaddy
Delta due to heavy rain, drought has
hit central Burma destroying the crops of
farmers in Mandalay Division.
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Suu Kyi’s Silence on Rohingya Draws Rare Criticism
16-Aug-12
BANGKOK—She is known as the voice of
Burma’s downtrodden but there
is one oppressed group that Aung San Suu Kyi does
not want to discuss.
Islamic group to take Rohingya issue to the UN
Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:23
Mizzima News
The Islamic summit meeting has
decided to take the issue of Muslim
Rohingyas in Burma to the United Nations,
it said in a statement.
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Govt ‘Plotting Kachin Attack’ despite Peace Rhetoric
16-Aug-12
Amid apparent attempts to arrange peace
talks, the Burmese military
is preparing for a large scale offensive against
Kachin rebels
in northern Burma with large troop deployments at the frontline,
according to local sources.
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Curfews Cut Back in Arakan State as Tensions Ease
16-Aug-12
Local authorities in Arakan State have
shortened curfews in townships
affected by clashes between Arakanese Buddhists
and Rohingya Muslims
as the situation appears to be returning to normal,
according
to government officials and local residents.
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Rakhine Aid Workers Freed
2012-08-16
Burmese authorities release local NGO
staff held amid ethnic violence
between Rohingyas and Rakhines.
Two local staff members of an
international aid non-governmental
organization detained during the height of
ethnic violence in western
Burma’s Rakhine state were released Thursday amid
easing tensions
but several more aid workers continue to languish in detention.
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Islamic body to take Rohingya issue to United Nations
16-Aug-12
The Islamic summit decided on Thursday
to take the issue of Burma’s
Muslim Rohingyas, displaced by deadly sectarian
violence, to the United Nations.
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