Friday, August 03, 2012

Village headmen and businessmen accused of illegal logging


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).

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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).