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Burmese delegation likely to attend Indian Trade Fair
Mizzima.com, India -
… and recounted last year’s participation as saying, “Last year a big delegation from Myanmar [Burma] visited the 14th trade affair. …

Referendum law excludes monks and bans dissent
Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway -
The Referendum Law for the Approval of the Draft Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar of 26 February 2008 sets out the conditions for the …

Operation Jupiter rains on fake antimalarials
In-PharmaTechnologist.com, UK -
According to an account of the Operation Jupiter programme published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, ad hoc surveys since 2000 in Myanmar (Burma), …

Burmese authorities charge detained editor, manager, for …
Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Thailand -
Khin Swe Myint, the wife of the detained “Myanmar Nation” editor-in-chief Thet Zin, told Mizzima that Military Affairs Security interrogated her husband and …

UN envoy wants ‘credible’ Myanmar democracy roadmap
Reuters India, India -
In a surprise move, the former Burma’s ruling generals this month announced a referendum in May on a new constitution, to be followed by a general election …

In Myanmar, a resistance hero on the run
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong -
They are a mobile phone and a portable, Chinese-made radio, to listen to such anti-junta stations like the Democratic Voice of Burma, based in Oslo, Norway. …

Growing up in a dangerous world
The Heights (subscription), MA -
The humanitarian crisis in Burma (Myanmar) worsens after renewed pro-democracy demonstrations in 2007 led to increased repression by the military junta that …

Burma’s faux democracy
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA -
That country, also known as Myanmar, is run by a military junta that trampled a popular vote in 1988 to continue its leaden misrule. …

Burma opposition condemns rebel killing
Radio Australia, Australia -
Burma’s opposition party headed by Aung San Suu Kyi has condemned the assassination of a top Karen rebel leader, who was a critical link between the …

Myanmar referendum law allows free voting, open counting of votes
EastDay.com, China -
Myanmar’s constitutional referendum law, which was published in today’s state media, allows free casting of votes and open counting of them on a …

Burmese Authorities Close Weekly Magazine
Voice of America -
By VOA News A media rights group says Burma’s military government has ordered the weekly magazine Myanmar Nation to stop publishing and has arrested two of …

Reporters on the Job
Christian Science Monitor, MA -
As correspondent Danna Harman prepared for her trip to Burma (Myanmar), she was surprised by how many family members and friends wanted to go with her. …

An American in Pyongyang
Livemint, India -
But you didn’t need Darfur or Burma to punish China, for there is no shortage of abuses there: The way tens of thousands of prisoners are treated in China’s …

City Commissioner Robert Stuart visits Boone to talk about …
Orlando Sentinel, FL -
… club last October, when they first put the group together to take a stand against the crackdown on demonstrators in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. …

Treasury Sanctions On Myanmar Traffickers Implicate CNOOC
Forbes, NY -
Steven Law joined his father’s drug empire in the 1990s and has since become one of the wealthiest individuals in Burma,” the Treasury said. …