19 Feb 2013
Myanmar's Ministry of Mining has announced that new gem mining permits
will
be issued at 1 million kyat (US $1,167) per gem mine block.
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.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
UN welcomes release of 24 child soldiers
19 Feb 2013
The United Nations on Monday said it welcomed
the release of 24 children
by Myanmar’s armed forces, and called for further discharges
of underage soldiers
by the government in line with its commitment made last
year to end the practice.
Myanmar govt wants ethnics to agree three-step plan
19 Feb 2013
As the Myanmar government prepares for talks on Wednesday in northern
Thailand with the main ethnic bloc United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC),
one of the peace brokers, Nyo Ohn Myint, said that President
Thein Sein’s team
expects to move the peace process forward in three stages.
Spitfire hunt continues in Yangon
19 Feb 2013
The archaeologist behind the hunt for dozens of Spitfires rumored to be
buried
in Myanmar during World War II has said that he remains certain
that he
will find the planes.
Kachin NGO blasts Harvard think-tank’s Myitsone plan
19 Feb 2013
Thailand-based
Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG) on Monday slammed
a September 20
research paper published by Harvard University’s Ash Center
for Democratic
Governance and Innovation in which the author proposes
a revised working model
for the suspended Myitsone Dam in Kachin State.
Yangon to Laiza peace marchers split
19 Feb 2013
A group of peace marchers currently walking to the Kachin capital of Laiza
has divided
into two groups—both now marching separately—following
disagreements,
according to the leaders of the two factions.
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