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CONTENTS
Politics................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ............................... 1
International Relations ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ..... 13
Human Rights ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ................. 19
Refugees /IDPs/Migrant Workers/Illegal Immigrants ................................ ................................ ........................ 22
Business................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ .......................... 23
Environment/ Natural Resources/ Natural Disaster................................ ................................ .......................... 25
Illegal Drugs ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ .................... 27
General News ................................ ................................ ................................ ................................ ................. 27
POLITICS
2010 Election/ 2008 Constitution
 Burmese junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe warned on Saturday that “conspiracy saboteurs from inside and outside the country
are making to harm the election and to hinder the seven-step road map [to democracy]” in a message released on Workers’
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Day, May 1, and published in state-run media. (Irrawaddy 010510)
 A general election to be held in Myanmar this year — the first in 20 years — will be far from free and just. The election laws
promulgated in March do not allow prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 supporters to take part in the
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election. (The Japan Times 030510)
 The Myanmar Union Election Commission Tuesday granted formation of 10 more new political parties for entering the coming
multi-party general election, bringing the total of such parties granted to date to 24 out of 30 seeking for the purpose. (Xinhua
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050510)
 The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), the second largest winning party in the whole of Burma and the top
winning one in Shan State in the 1990 elections, released a statement on 3 May that the party will not re -register to contest in
the upcoming general elections unless its party chairman and other imprisoned leaders are released, according to Sai Lake, the
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party’s spokesman. (SHAN 040510)
 The Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), whose senior members, the generals, announced last week the
formation of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), had issued instructions to its regional branches at about the
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http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18364
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20100503a2.html
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http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6973326.html
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3020:shan-elected-party-announces-it-will-not-re-
register&catid=85:politics&Itemid=266
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same time to come up with a list of party members, executive committee members and election candidates, according to a
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report coming from the Thai-Burma border. (SHAN 040510)
 The junta runs media the New Light of Myanmar on 3 May reported that the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) is one
of the political parties that were permitted to be set up by the Union Elections Commission to co ntest in the forthcoming
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general elections. (SHAN 050510)
 Burma’s censorship board is keeping a tight control on reporting in private journals about the junta’s Union Solidarity and
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Development Party (USDP) led by Prime Minister Thein Sein. (Irrawaddy 050510)
 Ministry of Defence officials has urged residents of Falam township, Chin State in the country’s northwest, to co -operate with
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the military for a “successful general election”, a local election official said. (Mizzima 050510)
 A number of parties competing in Burma’s elections this year have said the formation of a new political party by prime minister
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Thein Sein violates Burma’s own domestic laws. (DVB 060510)
 Feathers are flying in Burma over the use of the fighting peacock emblem by two newly registered political parties in their
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election campaigns. (Irrawaddy 070510)
 Well known for its charismatic opposition leader, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, and the ruling, military -dominated State Peace and
Development Council, it comes as no real surprise that a series of recently announced electoral laws would effectively prevent
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Suu Kyi and other political dissidents from participating in the upcoming election. (Jakarta Globe 070510)
 According to an Irrawaddy survey, many people believe the Union Solidarity and Deve lopment Party led by Prime Minister
Thein Sein will win a majority of seats in the upcoming election. That belief was supported by 418 out of 450 people who shar ed
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their opinions. (Irrawaddy 070510)
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 According to a Burmese Government newspaper on May 5 , the Myanmar Union Election Commission has granted the All Mon
Region Democracy Party (AMRDP) permission to run in the upcoming multi-party general elections as a legal political party.’
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(IMNA 070510)
 Though the Burmese military junta has announced through the state run media on Wednesday the political parties approved to
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contest the 2010 general election, Kachin ethnic parties are yet to make it to the list. (KNG 070510)
 The Burmese military junta’s electoral laws for the general election to be held this year are part of a well-crafted strategy to
ensure that the military keeps its stranglehold on the country and deeply entrenches itself under a civilian façade. (Mizzima
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100510)
 Myanmar's military leaders have rejected international poll monitors for the country's first elections in 20 years but asked for
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unspecified cooperation from the United States in supporting the vote, official media said Wednesday. (AP 120510)
 The Myanmar Union Election Commission has insisted that formation of political party by i n- post government ministers to take
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part in the coming multi-party general election this year is "in conformity with the law". (Xinhua 120510)
 The Burmese government’s Election Commission has warned leaders of two election parties against using on their flags the
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powerful peacock symbol previously employed by armed groups. (DVB 120510)
 Burma’s Prime Minister Thein Sein is legally allowed to run in elections this year, the country’s Election Commission said
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following allegations that his inclusion would breach election laws. (DVB 120510)
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3018:usda-prepares-for-the-polls&catid=85:politics&Itemid=266
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3021:shan-party-allowed-to-register-for-
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http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=18388
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/election-2010/3903-defence-ministry-chin-tour-urges-successful-polls-.html
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http://www.dvb.no/elections/political-parties-slam-%E2%80%98rule-breaking%E2%80%99-pm/8921
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http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/burmas-imperfect-polls-offer-the-best-hope-for-change/373747
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http://mon-imna.blogspot.com/2010/05/burmese-election-commission-grants-new.html
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http://www.kachinnews.com/News/Election-Commission-yet-to-approve-ethnic-Kachin-political-parties.html
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http://www.mizzima.com/edop/commentary/3920-juntas-legislative-tactic-reeks-of-illegality-.html
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_re_as/as_myanmar_us
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http://www.dvb.no/elections/fighting-peacock-banned-from-elections/9011
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 Members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in parts of central and eastern Burma have been distributing leaflets
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among the public, conveying the message: “Citizens have the right not to vote in the coming election .” (Irrawaddy 130510)
 Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the decision by some members of her former political party to form
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a new party and participate in upcoming elections is undemocratic. (VOA 140510)
 The newly-formed political party led by Burmese prime minister Thein Sein has begun campaigning across Burma in lieu of
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elections this year. (DVB 200510)
 The new Burmese flag to be hoisted following elections this year is evidence of the ruling regime’s attempt to wipe out ethni c
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armies, Burma observers say. (DVB 200510)
 The representative of a Chin ethnic party called the Ethnic National Development Party (ENDP) was officially registered on 11
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May with the Union Election Commission for the 2010 general elections in Burma. (Khonumthung 200510)
 The All Mon Region Democracy Party is planning to contest in Pago and Taninthayi Divisions, Karen and Mon States Kaowao has
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learned. (Kaowao 210510)
 Ethnic paramilitary groups and the wider population may rebel after the planned 2010 election in Myanmar, spiralling the
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junta-led country further into chaos, ethnic leaders and civil groups said Wednesday. (Jakarta Post 270510)
 A leading rights group marked the 20th anniversary of Myanmar's last elections on Thursday by calling on the junta's allies to
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demand a credible political process ahead of this year's polls. (AFP 270510)
 Leaders of the splinter political group of Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) registered their party at the Election
Commission office in Naypyidaw on Thursday, claiming they were gathering increasing support across the country. (Irrawaddy
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270510)
 According to local sources in Shan State, especially in Shan State South and East, the main challenge for the Shan Nationals
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Democratic Party (SNDP) to face in Shan State is to convince the non-Shan voters. (SHAN 270510)
 Burma's military junta has expanded its Fiber Optic Cable (FOC) project to its Eastern Regional Command, bringing to a total
four military regional command centers whose electronic systems are linked to Naypyidaw via the country's most modern
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network. (Irrawaddy 280510)
 The Myanmar Union Election Commission has warned that if a registered political party fails to list the prescribed number o f
party members to the commission within 90 days for entering the coming election, the party will be de -registered and
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abolished, an official daily quoted a statement of the commission as reporting Saturday. (Xinhua 290510)
 Burma's Election Commission has warned registered political parties that they must submit lists showing they have the
prescribed number of party members or face being abolished, state-run newspapers reported on Saturday. (Irrawaddy
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290510)
 A political party formed from the ashes of the famed National League for Democracy (NLD) has submitted its application to run
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in elections in Burma this year. (DVB 310510)
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi/NLD & Other Political Parties/88 Generations/Other Democracy Activists inside Burma
 The National League for Democracy (NLD) will cease to exist as a political movement after the deadline for party registration on
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http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Burmese-Opposition-Leader-Urges-Party-to-Boycott-Elections-93793119.html
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http://www.dvb.no/elections/usdp-begins-election-campaign/9105
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http://www.dvb.no/elections/burma-flag-%E2%80%98erases-ethnic-armies%E2%80%99/9110
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http://www.khonumthung.org/news.php?readmore=210
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http://www.kaowao.org/2010news-may-21.php
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/05/27/myanmar-may-descend-chaos-postelection-civil-groups.html
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100527/wl_asia_afp/myanmarpoliticselectionanniversary
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3046:work-cut-out-for-shan-
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May 6, according to NLD Central Executive Committee (CEC) members. (Irrawaddy 010510)
 The incumbent regime in Myanmar is asking all interest groups, until Thursday, to form political parties and register within 60
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days. All unregistered parties will cease to exist under the new election laws. (The Japan Times 020510)
 The Irrawaddy recently interviewed the vice-chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Tin Oo, who was formerly
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the chief of staff of Burma’s armed forces. (Irrawaddy 030510)
 U Than Maung, a member of the Taungup Township NLD in Arakan State, was tortured by law enforcement when he was
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arrested at midnight on 28 April, said a colleague on the condition of anonymity. (Narinjara 030510)
 As the last date for registration by the political parties to the Burmese election commission approaches, apprehension of str ong
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actions against the defaulter has grown. (Narinjara 040510)
 The party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, founded more than 20 years ago to challenge military rule in
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Myanmar, held a final gathering Wednesday at its headquarters before its forced dissolution. (AP 050510)
 After more than 20 years struggling against military dominated politics in Burma, the National League for Democracy (NLD),
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Burma’s main opposition party, will cease to exist after May 6. (Irrawaddy 050510)
 Former National League for Democracy party central committee members and other members are set to form a new political
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party, the National Democratic Force, to contest this year’s election, a party spokesman said. (Mizzima 060510)
 Two National League for Democracy township-level offices have removed party signboards before the party’s dissolution, a
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source said last night. (Mizzima 060510)
 The National League for Democracy made a final goodwill gesture towards jailed colleagues as a party by providing scholarship s
to children of political prisoners a day before the party re-registration deadline under the Burmese ruling junta’s electoral laws
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announced in March. (Mizzima 060510)
 For Win Tin, a veteran leader of Burma’s main opposition party, 6 May should mark a day of disappointment, to say the leas t.
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(BBC 060510)
 Leaders of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party said Thursday they would continue working as a social
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movement after Myanmar’s new election law forces its dissolution as a political party at midnight. (AP 060510)
 The pro-democracy party of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been disbanded after a registration deadline for
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elections expired. (BBC 070510)
 Burma’s opposition National League for Democracy says the Supreme Court has refused to hear its petition agains t the party’s
dissolution. That means the NLD will cease to exist as a political party under the military government ’s controversial election
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laws. (VOA 060510)
 Does today mark the end of the road for Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, headed by
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detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi? (DVB 060510)
 The party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, founded more than 20 years ago to challenge military rule in
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Burma, held a final gathering Wednesday at its headquarters before its forced dissolution. (Irrawaddy 060510)
 It was a morning in September 1988. I held a white membership card signed by Aung San Suu Kyi. I was so happy and proud. I
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said to myself, “Now, I’ve become a member of the National League for Democracy.” (Irrawaddy 060510)
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20100502a1.html
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http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=2579
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/05/suu-kyis-myanmar-opposition-party-holds-event-authorities-dissolve/
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http://www.irrawaddy.org/opinion_story.php?art_id=18387
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/election-2010/3910-former-nld-grouping-to-form-party.html
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/3909-nld-offices-remove-signboards-against-suu-kyis-wishes-.html
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/3908-nld-party-makes-parting-gesture-for-pupils-.html
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8664741.stm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100506/ap_on_re_as/as_myanmar_opposition
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8664610.stm
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http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Burmas-Supreme-Court-Refuses-Democracy-Partys-Petition-92948404.html
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http://www.dvb.no/interview/national-league-for-democracy-rip/8932
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 Some leading members of Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), who disagreed with the
party’s decision to boycott this year’s general election, have said they will announce the founding of a new pol itical party in the
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coming days that will contest the polls. (Irrawaddy 060510)
 National League for Democracy party members including vice-chairman Tin Oo came to work at party headquarters in Bahan
Township, Rangoon, a day after it was forced to disband, having decided against registering for polls this year over electoral
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laws considered unjust. (Mizzima 070510)
 A senior leader and founding member of Burma’s dissolved political opposition has vowed its members will keep working for
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change despite a new law brought in by the military regime, which banned the party. (RFA 070510)
 Four members of the now-disbanded opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party will form a new party and register
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for upcoming elections, the group’s advisor has said. (DVB 070510)
 A former leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who plans to form a new political party to contest in the coming
election said the party will ally with other pro-democracy and ethnic parties to shape the pro-democracy movement.
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(Irrawaddy 070510)
 The Irrawaddy recently interviewed Dr. Than Nyein, formerly a leading member of Burma’s main opposition party, the National
League for Democracy (NLD), which was dissolved by the junta on Thursday for failing to register for the upcoming elec tion.
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(Irrawaddy 070510)
 The decision by Burma’s main opposition party and outright winner of the 1990 election, the National League for Democracy
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(NLD), not to reregister signaled that political divisions remain deep. (Irrawaddy 070510)
 The National League for Democracy (NLD) refused to meet a May 6 deadline to re-register - a move that would have forced it to
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expel its own leader - and boycotted the vote, which will be the first in Burma in 20 years. (ABC News 080510)
 Although dismissed by many as a sham to entrench five decades of military rule, Myanmar's upcoming election is being taken
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seriously at home, with dozens of political parties queuing up to take part. (Kuwait Times 110510)
 Myanmar's detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is making a final bid for freedom, lawyers said Tuesday after submitting
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a request for a special appeal against her house arrest. (AP 110510)
 Lawyers of the disbanded opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party have called on Burma’s central court to
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provide an answer as to why an appeal over its dissolution was rejected. (DVB 130510)
 Detained National League for Democracy (NLD) icon Aung San Suu Kyi said that the act of forming a new party by some of the
NLD leaders is incompatible with the democratic process, according to her lawyer, Nyan Win, after meeting her on Friday.
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(Irrawaddy 140510)
 Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi criticised a breakaway faction of her now-defunct political party, her lawyer
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said, after renegade former members set up a party of their own to contest this year's election. (Reuters 150510)
 Detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has criticised a breakaway faction of her former National League for
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Democracy which has set up a party of its own. (ABC 170510)
 Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi criticised a breakaway faction of her now-defunct political party, her lawyer
said, after renegade former members set up a party of their own to contest this year's election, media reports from Yangon
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/election-2010/3914-nld-leaders-continue-to-show-up-for-work.html
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http://www.rfa.org/english/news/burma/burma-myanmar-nld-05072010123823.html
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http://www.dvb.no/elections/new-opposition-says-suu-kyi-%E2%80%98is-still-leader%E2%80%99/8944
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/08/2893869.htm?section=world
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http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTA1NDI5MDUwMQ==
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_MYANMAR_OPPOSITION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-05-11-
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http://www.dvb.no/elections/nld-questions-central-court-rejection/9028
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http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINSGE64E02E20100515?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401
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said. (Asia Tribune 170510)
 Dr. Than Nyein, the leader of the newly formed National Democratic Force (NDF) political party, said detained pro -democracy
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leader Aung San Suu Kyi should understand the right of individuals to form a new party. (Irrawaddy 170510)
 A VETERAN colleague of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who joined Myanmar's fight for independence, died on Thursday, his
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family and colleagues said. (Straits Times 200510)
 SUPPORTERS of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gathered on Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of their
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dissolved party's unrecognised victory in the country's last elections. (AFP 270510)
 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would likely refuse to meet with US senator Jim Webb on looming visit to Burma,
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long-time party colleague Win Tin has said. (DVB 280510)
 Burma's opposition and ethnic group leaders do not believe that US Sen Jim Webb, who begins a three -day visit to to the
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country on June 4, will achieve any important progress for the people of Burma. (Irrawaddy 310510)
Armed Resistance Groups/Political Opposition Groups/Other Democracy Activists in Exile
 A conference of the Chin Students Union (CSU) was held by 20 Chin students in New Delhi, India on May 1. The conference
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elected leaders for the 2010-2012 academic years. (Khonumthung 030510)
 Reports about the anti-Naypyitaw Shan State Army (SSA) ‘South’ holding closed door meetings with Naypyitaw is spreading
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among ceasefire groups, according to sources from the Sino-Burma border. (SHAN 060510)
 Six Burmese soldiers surrendered to the Arakan Liberation Army, or ALA, with weapons on Saturday on the Indo -Burma border
after they killed their captain and deserted their outpost, stated a report of the Arakan Liberation Party's organizing
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department. (Narinjara 180510)
 My diplomatic and foreign affairs work for the All Burma Students' Diplomatic Front (ABSDF) began in mid-1990, when I was
first assigned to our Bangkok office as assistant foreign affairs secretary to Dr. Thaung Htun, then our group’s foreign affa irs
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secretary, now with the exiled government. (Irrawaddy 220510)
 Thousands converged at the headquarters of the Shan State Army (South) in Doi Tai Leng on 21 May to celebrate the 52nd Shan
Resistance Day and 10-year anniversary of Restoration Council for Shan State. The SSA-S is one of Burma’s largest armed ethnic
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groups, and has been fighting the government for more than half a century. (DVB 250510)
 A seminar in eastern Burma attended by more than 100 representatives of 37 Karen organizations has called for a UN
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investigation of crimes committed in the region by Burmese government troops. (Irrawaddy 260510)
 The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), the political wing of the anti-Naypyitaw Shan State Army (SSA) South, released a
statement saying it is standing by the 1990 election results and will not “support and recognize” the upcoming 2010 elections
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being planned by Naypyitaw. (SHAN 260510)
 Nearly 200 people gathered in Mae Sot on Thursday morning as part of a global campaign against this year's general election in
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Burma. (Irrawaddy 270510)
 Six of Burma's armed ethnic groups have agreed at a meeting held in Thailand on May 21-23 to help each other if the Burmese
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http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2010/05/17/suu-kyi-attacks-breakaway-faction-bid-fight-polls
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http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_529261.html
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http://www.dvb.no/news/suu-kyi-%E2%80%98would-snub-us-senator%E2%80%99/9205
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http://www.khonumthung.com/kng-news/09-news/chin-students-union-conference-in-new-delhi/
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3022:shan-rebel-leader-spurns-secret-talks-
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3043:shan-army-we-stand-by-1990-election-
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junta launches a military attack on one of their members. (Irrawaddy 270510)
 One of the topics discussed by the Loi Taileng based Shan State Army (SSA) South, 22 – 25 May, was on stories making the
rounds inside Thailand that it was actively involved in the 2-month long Thai unrest on the side of the anti-government Red
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Shirt protesters. (SHAN 280510)
 Five Burmese ethnic armed groups have said they will work together to achieve a ‘real Union’ in Burma where equal rights and
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self-determination exist for all ethnicities. (DVB 310510)
SPDC/Militias or/and Pro-Junta Groups
 It is an obvious move when generals in a military junta decide to step aside in favor of civilian rule: shed military ranks a nd
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uniforms and transform themselves into civilians. (The New York Times 010510)
 The military government of Burma introduced a new political vehicle on Thursday. It is a shiny new model powered by a hybrid
engine—a combination of the trusty old combustion engine known as the State Peace and Development Council, or SPDC, and a
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modern new motor that has been dubbed the Union Solidarity and Development Party, or USDP. (Irrawaddy 010510)
 Burma’s border security force, Nasaka set up a new check-post on April 27, in Maungdaw Township to harass the Arakanese
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Rohingya community, alleged a local elder on condition of anonymity. (Kaladan 010510)
 Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) Director Lt. Col Aung Gyi of Nasaka headquarters in Kyikanpyin (Kawar Bill) in
Maungdaw Township attended the annual Madrasa (religious school) meeting held on Apri l 30, in Lakeya(Kumir Khali) village of
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the township, said a local businessman. (Kaladan 010510)
 Top Myanmar officials have resigned from their military posts and created their own political party in a likely bid to contes t
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elections later this year, raising new skepticism about prospects for a valid vote. (Wall Street Journal 030510)
 The Township Peace and Development Council Chairman of Maungdaw Township has asked village authorities to give lists of
corrupt persons in their areas recently with an eye to the elections, said a village official on condition of anonymity. (Kaladan
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 A security committee comprising Nasaka, -Burma’s border security force, police and Sarapa (Military Intelligence) was formed
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recently in Maungdaw town, said a businessman. (Kaladan 040510)
 A Burmese Army explosives expert group returned to their base in Buthidaung yesterday, said a local in Maungdaw. (Kaladan
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040510)
 Burmese military government strongman Snr-Gen Than Shwe has made the Top 40—on an annual list of the world’s “Predators
of Press Freedom,” which was released by Reporters Without Borders on Monday to mark World Press Freedom Day.
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(Irrawaddy 040510)
 Burmese navy officers based in southern Burma are allegedly making large sums of money by extorting diesel fue l from fishing
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vessels operating in the Andaman Sea. (Irrawaddy 040510)
 A National League for Democracy member in Burma’s central Mon state is in hospital after being attacked by a local militia -type
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organisation, allegedly on the orders of two Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) members. (DVB 060510)
 The War Office in Napyidaw has issued a directive for state-controlled media not to describe the Burmese government as a
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“Tatmadaw government,” according to military sources. (Irrawaddy 060510)
 When Prime Minister Thein Sein and 26 other military officers quietly retired their military stripes, little to nothing of th e
Burmese jigsaw changed. As the country lurches precariously toward its first general election in two decades, the protagoni sts
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to the crisis stand as polarized as ever. (Mizzima 070510)
 Htun Hla Sein, the Chairman of the Union Solidarity Development party (USDP), Maungdaw has handed over nomination
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papers to an Arakanese Rohingya, Jangir Alam, said an elder in Maungdaw. (Kaladan 180510)
 Burma’s Deputy Home Minister Phone Swe held a meeting in Maungnama Madrasa in Maungdaw Township at 10 am today
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having invited local people, said a local elder who attended the meeting. (Kaladan 180510)
 Members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association(USDA) continue to try to co-opt local volunteer groups who try
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to distribute water in drought-stricken areas of Burma. (Irrawaddy 190510)
 An unknown mining project by the ruling military is being secretly operating in Shan State Nort h’s Kyaukme Township, local
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sources said. (SHAN 190510)
 Lower-ranking administration officials in 10 Rangoon division wards have resigned from their posts, reportedly in frustration at
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their maligned reputation among Burmese citizens. (DVB 240510)
 The Burmese Army unit based in Kalemyo, Sagaing division has forced local people to buy postcards from the Union Solidarity
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and Development Association (USDA) as part of its fund collection campaign in April and May. (Khonumthung 250510)
 During its four-monthly meeting in Naypyidaw this week, Burma's military junta reportedly decided to reshuffle its regional
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military commanders and other senior military posts. (Irrawaddy 280510)
 Village headmen from a township in Shan State East complained that they are too tired of the junta’s political parties
campaigning process because they are not ‘canvassing’ for votes, just ‘forcing’ to get votes, according to sources from the Thai-
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Burma border. (SHAN 280510)
 Several of the Burmese junta officials who recently resigned their military positions to found the U nion Solidarity and
Development Party (USDP) were responsible for the deadly ambush on pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her convoy
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in Depayin, Sagaing Division, in 2003. (Irrawaddy 310510)
 Burmese military junta officials and the police are involved in stealing and selling hundreds of heads of cattle owned by civ ilians
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in eastern Kachin State to China, locals alleged. (KNG 310510)
 The baby grandson of the Rangoon mayor died on Saturday after his parents’ car overturned following a tyre blowout on
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Naypyidaw Highway, according to a source. (Mizzima 310510)
Ceasefire Groups/Border Guard Forces
 Rumors are emerging of a possible split among the pro-junta Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) following resistance by
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http://www.mizzima.com/edop/editorial/3911-cosmetic-change-alone-cant-fix-burmas-problems-.html
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certain factions to government pressure to transform into a Border Guard Force (BGF). (DVB 030510)
 Hundreds of Democratic Karen Buddhist Army troops are reported to have broken their alliance with the Burma Army and are
heading for the Thai border, with State Peace and Development Council units in hot pursuit, Karen National Liberation Army
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sources have said. (Mizzima 030510)
 Beijing’s deployment of 5,000 troops to its shared border with Burma is the latest sign that the Chinese government is
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increasingly concerned about fighting between the Burmese junta and an ethnic Wa army. (DVB 040510)
 Naypyitaw continues lobbying the ceasefire groups for Border Guard Force (BGF) program despite the fact that the deadline has
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been expired last week and there was no sign of positive responses from most remaining ceasefire groups . (SHAN 040510)
 Despite earlier reports that the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) might reject the Burmese junta’s border guard force
(BGF) proposal and reunite with the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), rejection of the BGF proposal is uncertain and
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reunification with the KNLA appears unlikely. (Irrawaddy 050510)
 Burmese military officials have told junta-controlled local militias in Myawaddy Township to be on high alert following the
expiration on April 28 of the deadline for armed ethnic militias to join the junta ’s border guard force (BGF). (Irrawaddy
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050510)
 According to an New Mon State Party (NMSP) insider, 3 NMSP leaders, including the NMSP’s Joint Secretary, have submitted
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requests to retire from the party. (IMNA 070510)
 The ceasefire Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’ that had recently transformed into a home guard force run by Burma Army is in a
difficult position after failing to persuade its strongest brigade that is refusing to accept the new status offered by the B urma
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Army. (SHAN 070510)
 While a faction led by its commander and deputy commander has agreed to become junta run home guard forces, the other
and stronger faction of the Shan State Army (SSA) North, led by its chief of staff Pang Fa who is closely associated with the
United Wa State Army (UWSA), declared on 5 May that it would remain loyal to the people and its political cause, according to
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sources on the Sino-Burma border. (SHAN 070510)
 More than 2,000 Democratic Karen Buddhist Army soldiers are said to have defected to the Karen National Union, after military
field reports early this week had hundreds of the defectors fighting Burmese Army units as they made their towards the Thai
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border. (Mizzima 080510)
 Latest reports say the ruling military junta has set 12 May as another deadline for the strongest faction of the Shan Stat e Army
(SSA) ‘North’, the First Brigade, which refused to become Naypyitaw-controlled home guard force, to reconsider its negative
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response. (SHAN 100510)
 A series of rocket-propelled-grenades (RPGs) launched into Hnee-padaw village in Mudon Township, Mon State, on May 7th
incited widespread panic among villagers. According to witnesses, the missiles struck a private residence, and no injuries we re
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sustained. (IMNA 100510)
 Baptist pastor and peace mediator Rev. Dr. Lahtaw Saboi Jum has lambasted the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) for
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rejecting conversion to the Burmese Army controlled Border Guard Force, said local sources. (KNG 130510)
 Ruling military junta officials have been inspecting bases in areas facing the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and t he Shan State
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/3896-troops-break-from-dkba-head-for-border-.html
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http://www.dvb.no/news/china%E2%80%99s-fears-over-wa-fighting-grow/8891
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Army (SSA) ‘North’ forces and reinforcing more troops and weapons during this week. (SHAN 130510)
 The strongest faction of the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’, the First Brigade, which is still refusing to become Naypyitaw-
controlled home guard force, has been ordered to withdraw all of its forces taking positions near motorways and the Burma
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Army outposts, according to sources from the First Brigade. (SHAN 140510)
 The ruling military officials last week invited the strongest faction of the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’, Brigade No.1, which is
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refusing to accept Naypyitaw’s Border Guard Force (BGF) program. (SHAN 180510)
 While reinforcements by the Wa and Burma Army along the front continue, the atmosphere of urgency has perceptibly
lightened, and things are returning to “almost normal,” according to a report by an informed source on the Sino -Burma border.
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(SHAN 180510)
 An ethnic border guard force representing Myanmar's Shan state-East has been formed by the government under its command,
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according to the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar Wednesday. (Xinhua 190510)
 Sources report that the Mon Peace and Defense Front (MPDF), a Mon splinter group lead by former New Mon State Party
(NMSP) Maj. Gen. Aung Naing, is currently leading a Burmese government-sanctioned military training in Thanphyuzayart
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Township, Mon State. (IMNA 190510)
 Totally in consonance with the Burmese military junta, Rev. Dr. Saboi Jum’s Shalom Foundation is imparting training to local
people for the general elections and the 2008 constitution. Dr. Jum had mediated between the junta and the Kachin
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Independence Organization (KIO) for the ceasefire agreement. (KNG 190510)
 The New Mon State Party (NMSP) has gained public support both inside and outside of Mon State after it rejected the SPDC’S
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plan to transform its army into a Border Guard Force last month. (Kaowao 210510)
 Over 30 retired Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA) soldiers have arrived at New Mon State Party (NMSP) headquarter since
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April 22nd, a NMSP official informed IMNA today. (IMNA 210510)
 In a surprise midnight crackdown the Burmese military junta arrested a youth leader and several ethnic Kachin youths
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yesterday in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in northern Burma, said sources close to the detained. (KNG 240510)
 A delegation representing Palaung villagers in the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’’s First Brigade controlled areas, recently
demanded that the group keep upholding its commitments and to remain opposed to Naypyidaw’s demand to tran sform itself
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into junta run force, according to sources close to the brigade. (SHAN 260510)
 Three top leaders of the New Mon State Party, which has rejected the junta’s offer of bringing its tro ops into a junta-controlled
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Border Guard Force, resigned from the party on May 18, a party spokesman said. (Mizzima 280510)
 For the second time this month, senior officials of the Burmese junta and Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) met today in
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Myitkyina, capital of Kachin State in northern Burma, said local sources. (KNG 310510)
Political Prisoners
 Amnesty International (AI) issued a statement on Wednesday urging Burma ’s authorities to treat 88 Generation Students group
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3030:shan-army-told-to-withdraw-its-forces-by-
naypyitaw&catid=85:politics&Itemid=266
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3033:shan-army-summoned-to-meet-junta-officials-
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3032:tensions-easing-on-the-eastern-front-
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http://www.kachinnews.com/News/Saboi-Jum%E2%80%99s-Shalom-imparts-poll-training.html
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http://www.kaowao.org/2010news-may-21b.php
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http://www.kachinnews.com/News/Surprise-arrest-of-Kachin-youths-in-Myitkyina.html
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3044:palaung-community-calls-on-shan-army-to-say-no-to-
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/election-2010/3992-mon-leaders-resign-after-decades-of-struggle.html
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leader Mya Aye who is reportedly in very poor health in Taunggyi prison. (Irrawaddy 060510)
 Political prisoner Kyaw Soe, 40, died at Myingyan Prison in central Burma on Wednesday, according to the Assistance
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Association for Political Prisoners-Burma (AAPP). (Irrawaddy 190510)
 The jail term of a National League for Democracy party youth member serving a sentence for distributing Aung San Suu Kyi’s
portrait has been extended 10 years bringing the total penalty to 14½ years, according to a political pris oners’ rights group
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based in Thailand. (Mizzima 310510)
Bomb Blasts
 The Burmese military junta has announced rewards of Kyat 5 million (US$5,102), a plot of land and a CDMA mobile phone to
anyone, who can give precise information about the perpetrators of the April 17 Myitsone dam serial bomb blasts. (KNG
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030510)
 Many additional riot police have been deployed at key places in Si ttwe, the capital of Arakan State, and along the Sittwe-
Rangoon highway to beef up existing security and prevent possible bomb attacks in the state, report townspeople and
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travelers. (Narinjara 040510)
 In a belated move, the Burmese military brass in Naypyitaw will hold a press conference on May 6 regarding the bomb blasts in
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Rangoon during the Thingyan (Water Festival) in mid-April. (Mizzima 040510)
 A special branch police officer was injured in one of three explosions that ripped through a tractor wareh ouse of the agriculture
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office in Kyauktaga township, Bago Division, a local resident reported on Tuesday. (Irrawaddy 040510)
 Continuing with sweeping arrests, police picked up a Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) member on Saturday in
connection with the April 17 serial bomb blasts in the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam site in northern Burma, said sources close to the
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arrested. (KNG 040510)
 Two bombs exploded in Myitkyina, the capital of Burma’s northern Kachin State today at around 11 a.m. local time, but t here
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was no casualty or damage, reports the Kachin News Group reporter in the capital. (KNG 050510)
 Burma’s police have arrested one of four suspects from an anti-junta group accused of orchestrating recent deadly blasts in
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Rangoon to cause panic ahead of this year’s elections, an official said Thursday. (Irrawaddy 070510)
 11 Arakanese youths who have been detained since September last year were again produced before the court in the notorious
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Insein prison on 2 May, said a family source. (Narinjara 060510)
 The Burmese junta revealed it had arrested an electrical engineer on suspicion of carrying out the water -festival bombings a
week after the grenade attacks in Rangoon last month that killed 10 people and injured 170. It accused the Vigorous Burmese
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Student Warriors of responsibility for the explosions. (Mizzima 060510)
 Police in Burma said Thursday they had arrested a man in connection with deadly blasts in a Rangoon park last month, blaming
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the attacks on a militant exile group opposed to the ruling junta. (DVB 060510)
 According to a businessman from Karen State’s Kawkareik Township, regional military authorities have responded to recent
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bomb blasts in Burma by publicly refusing to take responsibility for future such incidents in the area. (IMNA 070510)
 Burma’s police have arrested one of four suspects from an anti-junta group accused of orchestrating recent deadly blasts in
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Rangoon to cause panic ahead of this year’s elections, an official said Thursday. (Irrawaddy 070510)
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http://www.kachinnews.com/News/Junta-announces-reward-for-information-on-bomb-blasts-perpetrators.html
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/breaking-and-news-brief/3897-belated-press-meet-on-rangoon-bomb-blasts.html
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http://www.kachinnews.com/News/KIO-member-arrested-in-bomb-blast-case.html
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/3907-student-group-blamed-for-rangoon-bombings-1-held.html
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 Burma is set to enact new anti-terror legislation in the next few months, Burma’s police chief told reporters yesterday following
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the arrest of a suspect in connection with the Rangoon bombings. (DVB 070510)
 Three Pagoda Pass (TPP) residents report that the bombing of a Burmese military checkpoint last night in the Thailand-Burma
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border Township left its two perpetrators seriously injured. The pair has been taken into custody. (IMNA 100510)
 The wife of Phyo Wai Aung, who was arrested on April 23 after the bomb explosions at the Th ingyan water festival, said her
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husband had no connection to the blasts. (Irrawaddy 100510)
 A man arrested along with his father for photographing the aftermath of the deadly Rangoon bombings on 15 April has been
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tortured and denied food, his mother said. (DVB 110510)
 An examination of statements made at a Naypyidaw press conference by Burma's Police Chief Khin Yi has disclosed several
factual errors that cast doubt on accusations relating to the fatal bomb explosions that rocked a Thingyan New Year festival
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site in April. (Irrawaddy 110510)
 Two people have been killed and three others injured in a mine blast in Myanmar's southeastern Kayin state, the official dail y
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New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday. (China Daily 130510)
 A sketch of a suspect, who could be connected to the Irrawaddy dam serial bomb blasts in Kachin State, northern Burma has
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been released by Burmese police, said local sources. (KNG 150510)
 A journalist who with his son was detained in alleged connection with the suspected grenade at tacks at a Rangoon water
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festival pavilion last month, appeared in Mingala Taungnyunt Township Court today, his wife said. (Mizzima 180510)
 In an unexplained move, Burmese military junta authorities released the suspect of the April 17 serial bomb blasts in the
Irrawaddy Myitsone dam construction site, which killed four and injured over 12 Chinese workers, said a local source. (KNG
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220510)
 The engineer who was arrested on suspicion of plotting a series of bomb blasts in Rangoon in April has been denied le gal
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representation, his lawyer said. (DVB 240510)
 A major police operation in Burma’s northernmost Kachin state netted around 60 people last night suspected to have been
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involved in the bombing of the Myitsone dam in April. (DVB 260510)
 As if to press home the point that it means business the Burmese military junta arrested more Kachin youths following a
meeting with Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) leaders. The detained are being interrogated in connection with the
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serial bomb blasts. (KNG 260510)
 Myanmar's security personnel have discovered some explosives planted under a rail track, which were believed meant to blow
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up passenger train playing the Mandalay-Myitkyina railroad. (Bernama 270510)
Other
 Jan Krogsgaard was making a documentary on undercover video journalists working in Myanmar in 2007 when a major uprising
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against the military government broke out. (The Japan Times 100510)
 The demise of Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) as a legal entity marks the end of a non-violent democratic
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struggle consistently waged by the party over the past 22 years. (Irrawaddy 100510)
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http://www.dvb.no/news/rangoon-photographer-%E2%80%98was-tortured%E2%80%99/8987
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-05/13/content_9845126.htm
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http://www.kachinnews.com/News/Police-release-sketch-of-Irrawaddy-blast-suspect.html
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http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/3950-rangoon-blast-lensmans-father-in-court.html
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http://www.kachinnews.com/News/Serial-blast-suspect-Ze-Lum-freed.html
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http://www.dvb.no/news/rangoon-bomb-suspect-denied-legal-aid/9144
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http://www.dvb.no/news/60-arrested-over-kachin-dam-bombs/9176
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http://www.kachinnews.com/News/More-youths-with-KIO-links-arrested-and-tortured.html
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http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=501522
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Bangladesh-Burma
 Eighty five Rohingyas were arrested by police and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) from border areas yesterday. They crossed the
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Burma-Bangladesh border illegally, said a police aide from Teknaf on condition of anonymity. (Kaladan 060510)
 With fence construction nearly complete along the western Burmese border, authorities are now setting up checkposts at the
mouth of every creek that flows into the Naff River, which demarcates Burma and Bangladesh, to ensure all travelers are
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checked, said a local authority. (Narinjara 050510)
 Bangladesh will establish a direct banking link with Myanmar to boost bilateral trade between the two neighbouring countries,
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said a senior official of the commerce ministry. (The Daily Star 210510)
China-Burma
 Chinese rescue workers entered Myanmar to recover the bodies of Chinese miners killed by a landslide at a mine near the
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border, the Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. (Reuters 040510)
 A total of 13 Chinese workers were confirmed dead and two others were still missing after a landslide in a Myanmar border
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region near southwest China’s Yunan Province Monday, said local authorities. (Xinhua 050510)
 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao plans to visit Myanmar (Burma) in early June to demonstrate Beijing's suppor t for the military
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regime, sources said. (THE ASAHI SHIMBUN 200510)
 When the military regime in Burma launched a campaign last August to disarm the ethnic rebels in the Kokang region, made up
mostly of ethnic Chinese and where a two-decade-long ceasefire had been in place, the push triggered an exodus of more than
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37,000 refugees into China’s Yunnan province. (IPS 200510)
 When the military regime in Burma launched a campaign last August to disarm the ethnic rebels in the Kokang region, made up
mostly of ethnic Chinese and where a two-decade long cease-fire had been in place, the push triggered an exodus of more than
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37,000 refugees into China’s Yunnan Province. (Irrawaddy 200510)
 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who postponed his trip to Southeast Asia in Apri l following the deadly earthquake in northwest
China’s Quinghai province, is now expected to visit Burma and meet with Snr-Gen Than Shwe between the end of May and
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early June, diplomatic sources said. (Irrawaddy 200510)
 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will pay an official visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK), Japan, Mongolia and Myanmar from May
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28 to June 3, said a spokesman with Chinese Foreign Ministry Friday. (Xinhua 220510)
 PREMIER Wen Jiabao of China, Myanmar's closest and most powerful ally, will make an official visit to the country's military
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leaders in June, China's first high-profile trip to Myanmar in 16 years, a diplomat said on Sunday. (Straits Times 230510)
 Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will meet with leaders of Burma's junta to discuss energy cooperation and aid to the
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southeast Asian nation during a visit next week, a top diplomat said Wednesday. (BKK 260510)
 The Chinese Enterprises Association, based in Myanmar, donated clothing, food and stationery to children in the Kaba Aye
Orphanage in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon Friday, three days ahead of the fall of the International Children's Day. (Xinhua
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EU-Burma
 In an annual routine policy review, the European Union extended economic sanctions ag ainst the military-ruled Burma for
another year on April 26, 2010. With the continued political imbroglio in this Southeast Asian nation, the decision was not
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something unexpected. (Asia Tribune 030510)
 In an annual routine policy review, the European Union extended economic sanctions against the military-ruled Myanmar
(Burma) for another year on April 26. With the continued political imbroglio in this Southeast Asian nation, the decision was not
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something unexpected. (Korea Times 050510)
 The wish of the Burmese authorities to hold elections "under completely undemocratic conditions" and excluding the main
democratic opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi until its dissolution last week, is
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condemned in the European Parliament's resolution. (EU 200510)
 The European Parliament (EP) denounced Burma's electoral law and asked for the military junta to repeal it in order to open
the political process for the participation of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners, according to a
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press release issued by the 27 countries of the EP on Thursday. (Irrawaddy 210510)
 The European Union is planning to send a mission to Myanmar as part of a new approach to press the country's ruling junta to
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adopt democracy, sources of the Spanish EU presidency said Monday. (DPA 240510)
 The European Union is seeking a deal with Burma to send a mission to Rangoon to discuss the country's upcoming elections, a
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Spanish official said Wednesday during an EU-Asean conference in Madrid. (BKK 270510)
Germany-Burma
 Germany will provide full scholarships for Myanmar graduate students to help the country develop human resources, according
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to the German embassy here Monday. (Xinhua 170510)
Japan-Burma
 Japan will help Myanmar build a storm-resistant modern concrete jetty at the Yangon Port, the official newspaper New Light of
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Myanmar reported Tuesday. (Xinhua 110510)
New Zealand-Burma
 Ten Burmese sailors will be repatriated after two crewmen died on a Korean carrier loading logs in New Zealand, following a
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negotiated agreement, the Maritime Union of New Zealand said Thursday. (DPA 060510)
North Korea-Burma
 Military ties between Burma and North Korea, and the related issue of Burma's suspected nuclear development program, have
come front and center once again as a regional topic of debate following the visit to Burma on Monday by Uni ted States envoy
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Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. (Irrawaddy 120510)
 For the past 10 years, Burma has been accused of trying to acquire a nuclear weapon. A number of developments during this
period — notably Burma’s growing relationship with North Korea — have raised international concerns. Yet, to date, no hard
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evidence of such a plan has been produced. (Jakarta Globe 180510)
 North Korea has been using various “front companies, middlemen and other ruses” to sell nuclear and missile technology to so -
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called rogue states, including Burma, the UN has said. (DVB 280510)
Philippine-Burma
 The Philippines' foreign secretary shrugged off Burma's rejection of international monitors for the junta -led country's first
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elections in 20 years, saying Thursday the polls were a farce anyway. (Irrawaddy 140510)
Thailand-Burma
 The Thai army has established “protection” areas close to the Burmese border near Mae Sot, anticipating a flood of refugees as
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Burma’s ruling military junta prepares for elections this year. (Mizzima 040510)
UK-Burma
 Britain’s leading political parties may be in the final stretch of their own election campaigns, but they all generally agree on a
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tough course of action for the next British government to follow on its Burma policy. (Irrawaddy 060510)
 The last letters that Britain's former prime minister, Gordon Brown, wrote from No.10 were to Nobel Peace Prize laureates
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Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, reported a British political magazine on Thursday. (Irrawaddy 270510)
UN-Burma
 The United Nations says millions of dollars in international aid are still needed to help Burma’s people remover from Cyclone
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Nargis two years ago. (VOA 010510)
 A United Nations independent human rights expert today urged Myanmar’s Government to “keep its promise” to ensure that
upcoming national elections in the Asian country are transparent and inclusive enough to be considered credible. (UN
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050510)
 United Nations special rights envoy to Burma on Tuesday urged the country’s junta to take steps to fulfil its promise of a
smooth transition from military rule by releasing all political prisoners, on the eve of the deadline for political party
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registration. (Mizzima 060510)
 The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana, said on Wednesday that the Burmese
military government has not established the conditions necessary for a credible election and urged the junta to release all
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political prisoners in advance of the election. (Irrawaddy 060510)
 The UN will continue to encourage the Burmese junta to open its borders to for eign election observers later this year “to inspire
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confidence” in the highly controversial polls. (DVB 140510)
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US-Burma
 The United States on Tuesday expressed doubt that the decision by key members of Burma’s military government to resign
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their military posts will make elections planned for later this year any fairer. (VOA 040510)
 The United States reacted cautiously Tuesday after Myanmar Prime Minister, General Thein Sein, and 22 other ministers last
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week retired from their military posts and the premier created a new party. (AFP 040510)
 A senior US diplomat is considering a visit to Burma this month, officials said on Tuesday, as Western concerns mount over th e
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military regime’s plans for upcoming elections. (DVB 050510)
 US assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, will visit Burma in the coming weeks, according
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to western diplomats. (Irrawaddy 040510)
 The United States must renew tough sanctions against Myanmar to punish the military regime there for failing t o make “real
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progress” on democratic reforms, a top US senator said Wednesday. (AFP 050510)
 The United States reacted cautiously Tuesday after Burma’s prime minister, General Thein Sein, and 22 other ministers last
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week retired from their military posts and the premier created a new party. (DVB 050510)
 Speaking at a daily press briefing on Tuesday, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, P J Crowley, suggested th at if
Burmese generals resigned from the military to contest the upcoming election, this could be seen as a positive step. (Irrawaddy
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050510)
 Today I rise to introduce a bill that would renew sanctions against the Burmese junta. As in years past, I am joined in this effort
by my good friend, Senator Feinstein. Senators McCain, Durbin, Gregg and Lieberman are original cosponsors of this bipartisan
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legislation and continue to be leaders on the issue. (Irrawaddy 050510)
 US Senator Mitch McConnell on Wednesday called on his fellow lawmakers to join him in support of sanctions against the
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Burmese regime for not making any “tangible progress” in democratic reforms. (Mizzima 060510)
 The US Senate on Friday voiced solidarity with Myanmar’s main opposition party, which was abolished by the military regime,
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and called on the Obama administration to consider tighter sanctions. (AFP 070510)
 A senior State Department official said Friday a high-level U.S. envoy may visit Burma in the coming days to discuss that
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country’s “deeply flawed” election plans. But there are conditions for such a visit. (VOA 070510)
 US envoy Kurt Campbell will visit Myanmar if the military junta there allows him to meet with opposition icon Aung San Suu Ky i
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and other opposition members, a senior US official said Friday. (AFP 070510)
 Burma’s ruling junta will allow a US envoy to meet detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi next week, an official said
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Saturday, as the country prepares for its first elections in two decades. (BKK 080510)
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 U.S. diplomats say a senior U.S. envoy will arrive in Burma Sunday to discuss the country’s election plans. (VOA 080510)
 A top U.S. official will make a second visit to Myanmar (also known as Burma) on Sunday (May 8) to pursue Washington ’s new
policy of engagement, a diplomat said, ahead of controversial elections being prepared by the country’s military regime, AP
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reported. (Asia Tribune 090510)
 Reflecting the continued strain in relations between the US government and the Burmese regime, a senior US official on Friday
told The Irrawaddy that US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell will not visit Burma
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unless he is given permission to meet detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, other leaders of the National League
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for Democracy (NLD) and ethnic leaders during his scheduled trip to the country next week. (Irrawaddy 080510)
 Condemning the continued persecution of pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, the United States Senate has, in an
unanimous resolution, urged the Obama administration to review its policy of engagement with the Burmes e military junta as it
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has not yielded any positive move from the country’s authoritarian military rulers. (Irrawaddy 080510)
 MYANMAR'S ruling junta is likely to allow US envoy Kurt Campbell to meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, paving the
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way for him to visit the country next week, an official said on Saturday. (Straits Times 080510)
 A senior U.S. envoy is scheduled to meet with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Monday, one day after arriving in
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Burma for talks on the country's upcoming elections. (VOA 090510)
 US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell had a one hour meeting on Monday with detained pro -democracy leader Aung
San Suu Kyi and also held talks with colleagues of her former National League for Democracy (NLD) at a gover nment guesthouse
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in Rangoon. (Irrawaddy 100510)
 Senior US diplomat Kurt Campbell, who arrived in Burma yesterday, is today due to meet with the detained Nobel laureate
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Aung San Suu Kyi. (DVB 100510)
 An internal congressional report has told US lawmakers—who, unlike in the recent past, are divided over the American
approach to Burma—that the results of the 2010 general election in Burma may be a strong indicator of the potential for
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political change in the Southeast Asian nation. (Irrawaddy 100510)
 The Obama administration's decision to seek a new way forward in U.S.-Burma relations recognizes that decades of trying to
isolate Burma (aka Myanmar) in order to change the behavior of its government have achieved little. (The Japan Times
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 US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell had a one hour meeting on Monday with detained pro -democracy leader Aung
San Suu Kyi and also held talks with colleagues of her former National League for Democracy (NLD) at a government guesthouse
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in Rangoon. (Irrawaddy 100510)
 The United States is "profoundly disappointed" with Myanmar's preparations for its first elections in two decades, which look
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likely to lack legitimacy, a visiting US envoy said Monday . (AFP 100510)
 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, speaking at the American Center in Yangon on Monday evening, warned
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Myanmar’s junta that its planned elections lack international legitimacy. (Japan Today 110510)
 The Obama administration's top envoy for Asia suggested on Monday that Myanmar is seeking weapons from North Korea in
violation of U.N. sanctions and said the United States could "take independent action" to prevent any illegal transfers.
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(Washington Times 110510)
 During my two-day trip, I met with a wide variety of stakeholders inside the country. In Nay Pyi Taw, I held consultations with
the Minister of Science and Technology, the Foreign Minister, the Minister of Information and the Spokes Authoritative Team,
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the Union Election Commission, the Labor Minister, and the head of the USDA. (USDS 110510)
 The Burmese government will look to “normalise and promote” relations with the US well into the future despite harsh US
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condemnation yesterday of the ruling junta’s intransigence on the Burmese elections. (DVB 120510)
 Myanmar Foreign Minister U Nyan Win has expressed hope that the present direct engagement between Myanmar and the
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United States would promote bilateral relations, official media reported on Wednesday. (Xinhua 120510)
 A bipartisan congressional legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives on Tuesday to renew the US economic
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sanctions on Burma. An identical bill was introduced in the US senate last week. (Irrawaddy 120510)
 Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi believes a recent visit by a top US diplomat to the military-ruled
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country was fruitful, her lawyer said Friday. (AFP 140510)
 President Barack Obama on Friday formally extended sanctions against Burma, keeping US pressure on a military regime aiming
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to hold its first elections in more than two decades later this year. (BKK 150410)
 US President Barack Obama on Friday extended the national emergency against Burma for one more year, arguing that the
policies of the military junta continue to pose a threat to America’s national security interests and i ts foreign policy. (Irrawaddy
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150510)
 After the only outcomes of a visit to Myanmar by a high-level United States diplomat were "profound" disappointment over its
election preparations and a stronger line over its nuclear links with North Korea, President Barack Obama on Friday formally
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extended sanctions against the country. (Asia Times 180510)
 A new US law signed this week that will single out governments that restrict press freedom will have little impact on Burma,
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media workers inside the country have said. (DVB 190510)
 The top U.S. diplomat for Asia said on Wednesday Washington is troubled that Myanmar has not moved on any of the issues
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standing in the way of better American ties with the military-ruled state. (The Star 190510)
 The U.S. State Department's top diplomat for Asia said Thursday the Obama administration is quite dissatisfied with results of
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its effort to prod Burma's military government toward reform. (VOA 190510)
 The U.S. foreign policy toward the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar is closely watched by both the
Myanmarese (Burmese) people and the international community, in case any positive development might emerge. (Korea
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Times 220510)
 AN INFLUENTIAL US senator announced on Tuesday he would head late this week to South Ko rea, Thailand and Myanmar and
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accused China of failing to show 'responsible leadership' amid regional unrest. (Straits Times 260510)
 Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1990 election in Burma in which the National League for Democracy (NLD) won an
overwhelming number of seats but the military regime refused to transfer power, six US senators condemned the regime for its
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past and present oppression. (Irrawaddy 280510)
Vietnam-Burma
 Leaders of Myanmar and Vietnam Friday vowed to further promote the two countries' bilateral relations in their messages
exchanged on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two Southeast
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Asian countries. (Xinhua 280510)
 Myanmar and Vietnam will jointly breed sturgeon under an economic coalition program to mark the 35th anniversary of the
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two countries' relations, a state-run daily reported Sunday. (Xinhua 300510)
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 A skilled public speaker, Surin Pitsuwan, secretary general for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), impressed
many when he stressed the role the 10-nation group will play in multilateral engagement in partnership with Asia Pacific
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powers including China, Japan, and Korea at conference in Hong Kong in late April. (Irrawaddy 100510)
 Secrecy normally shrouds military relations between Burma and its strategic allies such as China and North Korea, but
intelligence sources suggest ongoing military ties with these two countries are helping the Burmese generals’ to achieve thei r
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military ambitions, including that of becoming a nuclear power. (Irrawaddy 100510)
 Following a seven-month policy review, the American administration launched a "policy of pragmatic engagement with Burma,”
while President Barack Obama formally extended sanctions for another year, Assistant Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell of East
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Asian and Pacific Affairs said that (Asia Tribune 170510)
 The EU and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Wednesday urged ASEAN member Myanmar to make its
upcoming elections 'credible, transparent, democratic and inclusive,' including the early release of detained opponents. (DPA
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 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao starts a four-nation tour of Asia on Friday. The trip will take him to Republic of Korea (ROK), Japan,
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Mongolia and Myanmar. (China Daily 280510)
HUMAN RIGHTS
Extrajudicial Killing
 An unregistered Arakanese Rohingya refugee woman of Kutupalong makeshift camp was killed by camp security man (Anser)
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on March 25 in Chittagong, said a refugee from the camp. (Kaladan 060510)
 A cattle trader was killed by unidentified persons in Tamen Chaung village in Buthidaung Township, on May 28 while going to
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buy cattle, said a village elder from Kawar Bill in Maungdaw Township. (Kaladan 310510)
Rape
 An 18-year-old Arakanese woman in Chin State was raped on 8 April by Second Captain Bo Aung, 27, of Battalion 232 based in
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Partalate Village in Sittwe Township, according to a report of the Free Burma Rangers. (Narinjara 070510)
 Recently the incidence of rape by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) personnel has increased in northern Arakan State,
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Buthidaung townships, according to sources. (Kaladan 070510)
Forced Labor/ Forced Porters
 In a first, the International Labour Organisation in Rangoon and the junta’s Labour Ministry will jointly distribute literatu re on
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forced labour in Burma at the end of the month, a source close to the UN workers’ rights body said. (Mizzima 050510)
 Tribal people in northern Buthidaung Township in Arakan State have been forced by the Burmese army to transport army
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rations along the western border areas of Burma near Bangladesh, reports a Dynet tribal lea der who came to Bangladesh to
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settle in a village with family. (Narinjara 050510)
 The Burmese junta’s Western Command is building 15 army outposts using forced labour by villagers who have to bring their
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own food to the projects near the Indo-Burman border, army sources and local residents have said. (Mizzima 070510)
 Over 70 people in Hakha are into forced labour at the behest of the Hakha Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) to
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clear a tea plantation as of 12 May in Chin state western Burma. (Khonumthung 140510)
 The Burma’s border security force-(Nasaka) has been using villagers in Maungdaw Township as forced labourers for road
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construction since the beginning of May, said a local trader. (Kaladan 240510)
Child Soldier/ Child Labor
 The Burmese Army is bent on recruiting youths in Kalemyo, Sagaing division western Burma through the local Military
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Administrative Headquarters, by spending money and giving other necessities as incentives. (Khonumthung 020510)
 The economic crisis may be “slowing down the global pace of reduction” of child labour, warns a report that calls for a gear -
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change in the campaign to end the practice. (DVB 110510)
 In a report released on Friday the UN named and shamed armed groups worldwide who used children in 2009 as spies, soldiers,
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and human shields, and highlighted Burma’s ongoing violation of international law on use of child soldiers. (DVB 250510)
 A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed and his body hidden under a bridge by a Burmese soldier in Bago division after refusing to
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join the army. (DVB 310510)
Land Confiscation/ Forced Relocation
 The Burmese military junta has started pressurizing residents of Tang Hpre village in the Irrawaddy Myitsone site over the last
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two days to relocate by the end of this month, said local sources. (KNG 030510)
 To facilitate construction of the Myitsone hydropower project in Kachin State, residents of two wards in Tan Pare village nea r
the site have been ordered by junta authorities to relocate by the end of May, Kachin Development Network Group’ (KDNG),
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which monitors the project, said. (Mizzima 040510)
 Burmese authorities have ordered residents of Kyauk Chaung village and others to b e relocated as part of a plan to expand
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Three-Mile Myo-Thit in Laputta Township in Irrawaddy Division that Cyclone Nargis struck two years ago. (Irrawaddy 070510)
 The hydropower project in Mali River’s waterfall has begun to take its toll on the populace. Eight Kachin villages in Puta-O
district in Kachin State, northern Burma are being forced to relocate by the Burmese military junta, said hapless victims nea r the
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project site. They have to fend for themselves. (KNG 170510)
 Adopting an aggressive posture on relocation, the junta has ordered the militia and local people to force villagers to shift from
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near the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam project site as of May 1. (KNG 180510)
 Villagers facing forced relocation by the Burmese junta are in a helpless situation and have made a fervent plea for action from
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every organization including armed groups to halt the Myitsone Dam construction. (KNG 250510)
 Things at the contentious Irrawaddy Myisone dam project in northern Burma have come to a head with the Burmese military
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junta forcibly relocating the first of the ethnic Kachin villages, said village sources. (KNG 280510)
 Land belonging to hundreds of Chin people, settled near ground No. 7 Pinlung block, Kalemyo, Sangaing division in Burma will
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be confiscated for the extension of the Kalemyo airport by the military junta. (Khonumthung 290510)
Human Trafficking/Smuggling
 Thousands of women in the Irrawaddy delta, most victims of Cyclone Nargis who still face enormous hardships two years after
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the storm ravaged the region, have been targeted by human traffickers, according to social workers. (Irrawaddy 030510)
 Malaysia was accused last week of ‘playing volleyball’ with the lives of six trafficked Burmese children, one as young as 10, now
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being held in a Malaysian detention camp. (DVB 100510)
 Burma’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur has denied financial assistance that would return home six Burmese child beggars detained
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in Malaysia’s Tanah Merah immigration camp since July last year. (DVB 130510)
 Two public servants were detained at a roadblock mounted by the Anti -Smuggling Unit (UPP) on suspicion of attempting to
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smuggle in two Myanmar women into the country last Sunday. (Bernama 250510)
Other
 People living along the border in Paletwa Township in Chin State have been forced by army authorities to look for Bulbophyllum
auricomum, a species of orchid, for the wife of Western Command Commander General Thaung Aye, report many local
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villagers. (Narinjara 030510)
 Burmese Army troops and Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) personnel are jointly extorting money from Arakanese
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Rohingya villagers in Buthidaung townships of late, according to sources in the locality. (Kaladan 040510)
 Shwe Maung, Surveillance Officer and Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) from Maungdaw police station is into extortion and
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harassing Arakanese Rohingya timber traders, according to a trader from Maungdaw. (Kaladan 040510)
 The Animal Husbandry and Medical Department has been collecting money from farmers of Maungdaw Township since April
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10, for an injection to be given to cattle, said a local trader on condition of anonymity. (Kaladan 070510)
 Maung Tun Khin this week became the first Rohingya to brief the US congress on the religious persecution of ethnic minorities
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at the hands of the Burmese government. (DVB 130510)
 Off late, the Burmese Army and Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) have stepped up harassment of Rohingya villagers and
have been extorting money from them on false and concocted allegations, according to sources in the locality. (Kaladan
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 The Rohingya community in north Arakan is still having to put up with arbitrary arrests and planned extortion by Burma’s
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border security force (Nasaka), said a local school teacher on condition of anonymity. (Kaladan 250510)
 Amnesty International (AI), in its annual report on countries that vi olate human rights, listed Burma, North Korea and China
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among Asian countries that have detained and harassed human rights defenders. (Irrawaddy 270510)
REFUGEES /IDPS/MIGRANT WORKERS/ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
 Local villagers staged a protest against the resettlement of Burmese Muslim refugees in third countries on Sunday in front of
the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh, alleging that UNHCR’s resettlement program has attracted
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more refugees into their country. (Narinjara 030510)
 Local people stopped INGOs, working in the Burmese refugee camps like Kutupalong official camp, Nayapara camp and th e
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unregistered Kutupalong camp on 1 May, according to camp sources. (Kaladan 030510)
 A delegation of Western diplomats led by US Ambassador to Bangladesh James F. Moriarty visited Burmese refugee camps here
on April 29. The UNHCR in Bangladesh arranged the visit, said a refugee committee member on condition of anonymity.
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(Kaladan 030510)
 A refugee was stabbed by three local goons on April 30, while he was entering the Nayapara refugee camp after buying an
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English book from Teknaf market, said a refugee committee member who declined to be named. (Kaladan 030510)
 Around 100 ethnic Mon migrants from eastern Burma were detained in Thailand’s Sangkhlaburi district on Monday after
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illegally entering the country. (DVB 050510)
 So far, some 82,700 Burmese workers have passed the national identification process, and it is expected that all 1.2 million
alien workers from Burma should pass the process by the end of 2012, the Employment Department's chief said yesterday. (The
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Nation 120510)
 Up to 5000 Burmese migrants in the Thai border town of Mae Sot have gone into hiding after Thai police began sweeping
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through factories and arresting illegal migrants. (DVB 130510)
 A fish breeder who rescued two students in the January dragon boat tragedy here was fined RM24,000 b y a magistrate's court
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for harbouring three Myanmar illegal immigrants. (The Star 130510)
 They had illegally sneaked into Myanmar knowing full well the danger, but it wasn't completely apparent to the members of the
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Irish Christian band Blue tree that the screaming general down below the balcony wanted them dead. (190510)
 “We lived like animals for the last week so we are happy to be back,” Aung Tin Oo said softly, sipping his sweet coffee at a
teashop outside a factory in Mae Sot on the Thai-Burma border. “But we are ready to go back at any moment.” (Irrawaddy
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250510)
 Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot, Thailand voted in the “People’s Ballot” campaign today, which pitted Aung San Suu Kyi
against Senior General Than Shwe, part of a worldwide tribute to the National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in
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national polls in 1990. (Mizzima 270510)
 When I visited the makeshift camps for Rohingya refugees on the Bangladesh-Burma border, I made up my mind there and then
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that I would not rest until their plight received the attention it needs and deserves. (DVB 280510)
 Three refugees registered with the UNHCR were arrested from Link-Road junction, while returning to their camp on May 24,
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2010, said a relative of the victims. (Kaladan 280510)
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 The police have again destroyed more than 30 huts of unregistered Arakanese Rohingyas in the refugee camp near Kutupalong
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this morning, according to sources. (Kaladan 280510)
 Eleven Burmese refugees injured in a car accident while they were travelling to a course to prepare for the United States as part
of a resettlement programme have recovered sufficiently to leave Thailand by next week, a refugee agency said. (Mizzima
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280510)
 A refugee was severely tortured by the camp police on May 30, at about 9 am, for cutting down a small tree near his shed in t he
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camp which he grew, said a refugee leader from the camp. (Kaladan 310510)
BUSINESS
 The European Union (EU) has extended its sanctions against the Burma military junta and its “allies” for one more year becaus e
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democratic reform has failed to take place. (Irrawaddy 010510)
 When shareholders of the multinational company Chevron gather for their annual meeting in the US city of Houston in late
May, they will come face to face with Naing Htoo, whose community has suffered due to the exploits of the energy giant in
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military-ruled Burma. (Irrawaddy 030510)
 Myanmar’s military government will offer visas on arrival to boost the country’s nascent tourism sector, a travel industry official
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said on Tuesday. (Reuters 040510)
 A new international campaign aims to encourage oil and gas giants Total and Chevron to reveal the extent of payments they
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have made to the Myanmar government over the past 18 years. (Asia Times 070510)
 The pre-paid mobile phone SIM card market in Burma has decreased as authorities restrict sales of pre-paid cards without a
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proper ID and address, following the deadly Rangoon bomb blasts on April 15, sources in Rangoon said. (Irrawaddy 060510)
 US sanctions against the Burmese military regime and its business cronies should be renewed without hesitation, s ays a leading
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American congressman. (Irrawaddy 080510)
 Some 250 petrol stations in Burma earmarked for privatisation in January as part of a grand economic reshuffle by the
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government are to open next weekend. (DVB 100510)
 The Myanmar authorities have blamed marine product exporters for not reaching the export target of 700 million U.S. dollars
set for the fiscal year 2009-10, saying that only 88 trading companies out of 185 accomplished the performance. (Xinhua
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110510)
 Gold prices in Myanmar have soared to a record high, trading at 626,000 Kyats (about 630 U.S. dollars) per tical (about 15.24
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grams) over the last weekend, the local weekly Yangon Times reported Tuesday. (Xinhua 120510)
 Myanmar's southwestern Ayeyawaddy delta, which was once devastated by deadly cyclone Nargis two years ago, is enjoying
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economic progress now, according to official media report Wednesday. (Xinhua 120510)
 The Economic Intelligence Centre of the Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) has urged Thai private investors to look for opportun ities
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in three Indochinese countries and Myanmar amidst its losing position in Vietnam. (Bernama 140510)
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 Major engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Essar Projects (India) Ltd has signed a contract with the
Ministry of External Affairs to execute port and inland water transport components of the ’Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Tran
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sport Project’ in Myanmar. (The Hindu 140510)
 "Banks" in Myanmar (Burma) are helping poor farmers survive in the long term by loaning water buffaloes, piglets and garlic
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instead of money. (Asahi 150510)
 Senior representatives from two big Indian state firms are visiting Burma seeking to push forward proposals for two large
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hydroelectric projects, according to Indian media reports. (Irrawaddy 150510)
 It is an open secret in Burma that the key to business success in the country is close ties to the ruling generals. But it is less wel l
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understood just how much this chronic cronyism affects the lives of ordinary Burmese. (Irrawaddy 150510)
 Myanmar will hold a special gems emporium in Yangon in June-July this year to encourage national gem traders to sell more
quality gems, jade pearl and jewelry, according to the Central Committee for Holding Myanmar Gems Emporium Monday.
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(Xinhua 170510)
 Myanmar authorities are considering to grant permission to four giant private entrepreneurs to open private banks in the
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country, sources said on Monday. (Xinhua 170510)
 With world market prices for gold at an all-time high, Chinese traders are rushing to Burma, where the precious metal is
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cheaper than in neighboring countries, according to sources. (Irrawaddy 180510)
 Burma's wealthiest tycoon Tay Za and five other businessmen close to the military regime have applied for permits to establis h
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private banks. (Irrawaddy 190510)
 The Burmese junta is preparing to allow major business cronies free reign to open banks, with the new entrants into the sector
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all industry leaders in other fields. (DVB 200510)
 Small business owners in Burma are complaining they may have to shut down becau se of the decision by the state power
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authority to halt supplies to industrial users owing to the lack of water to drive hydro dam turbines. (Irrawaddy 210510)
 Amid the death and destruction in Bangkok last week, one casualty of the mayhem that followed a crackdown on anti-
government protests in the Thai capital has gone unnoticed: a two-digit lottery played in neighboring Burma and based on the
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Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index. (Irrawaddy 220510)
 International pressure continues to mount on the oil companies Total, Chevron, and PTTEP of Thailand to practice complete
revenue transparency in connection to the controversial Yadana natural gas pipeline in Burmaâ €™s Tenasserim Division. (DVB
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240510)
 South Korea's POSCO (005490.KS) said on Tuesday it had signed a preliminary agreement to buy Daewoo International
(047050.KS), in what could become its biggest acquisition to date as the steelmaker looks to secure raw materials and boost
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overseas sales. (Reuters 250510)
 Mingala wholesale market, gutted in a devastating 33-hour fire, will be renovated within two months, and three temporary
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trading spaces have been arranged nearby, a Rangoon official said today. (Mizzima 270510)
 Oil India, GAIL and ONGC — are again scouting for opportunities in gas-rich Myanmar to meet the country’s increasing energy
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demand. (The Telegraph 290510)
 Businessmen of Myanmar and South Korea are due to meet in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon later on Monday for
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discussions on further economic and trade cooperation, traders circle said on Monday. (Xinhua 310510)
ENVIRONMENT/ NATURAL RESOURCES/ NATURAL DISASTER
 Local civil society organisations and community groups who rushed to help victims after the powerful Cyclone Nargis tore
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through military-ruled Burma two years ago are reaping rewards for their risky and tireless labour. (IPS 020510)
 San Tin says she is haunted by memories of the deadly storm that devastated her Burma village two years ago, but fears that
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she may go thirsty unless more rain falls. (BKK 040510)
 Around half a billion dollars is still required in Burma’s southern Irrawaddy delta, exactly two years after cyclone Nargis killed
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140,000 people in one of the region’s worst recorded natural disasters. (DVB 030510)
 After more than two years since Cyclone Nargis hit Burma, the lack of drinking water continues to affect more than 180,000
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residents of the Irrawaddy Delta region, according to the United Nation’s office in Rangoon. (Mizzima 040510)
 Two years after Cyclone Nargis devastated the Irrawaddy Delta and killed at least 140,000 people, a Mizzima reporter
interviewed survivors in Dedaye, on the Thandi River, about 12 miles (20km) from its mouth in the Gulf of Martaban. (Mizzima
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 Local civil society organizations and community groups who rushed to help victims after the powerful Cyclone Nargis tore
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through military-ruled Burma two years ago are reaping rewards for their risky and tireless labor. (Irrawaddy 040510)
 Thirteen people have been confirmed dead after a landslide destroyed a mine in Burma’s northe rn Kachin state, three
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kilometres from the border with China. (DVB 050510)
 CHINESE rescue workers entered Myanmar to recover the bodies of Chinese miners killed by a landslide at a mine near the
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border, the Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. (Reuters 050510)
 In Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, motorboats ply the dense network of rivers, delivering passengers to coastal villages of fragile
thatch huts. Locals are still coping with the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis which killed more than 140,000 people two yea rs ago
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this week. (VOA 060510)
 A fierce gale lashed villages in Monywa yesterday damaging homes, monasteries, and schools, residents said. (Mizzima
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 Lakes and freshwater wells in central Burma are drying up, fuelled by hot weather and abnormal riv er flows resulting from
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hydropower projects. (DVB 100510)
 Myanmar people have been suffering from the impact of extreme hot weather this summer in terms of diseases, business and
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water shortage in various part of the country. (Xinhua 100510)
 Seasonally hot temperatures in Burma have led to increased water shortages and concern for the health of children and the
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elderly. (Irrawaddy 100510)
 The survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Burma (also known as Myanmar) in May 2008, continue to face challenges in
rebuilding their lives, in lack of access to relief and reconstruction efforts, and in violations of basic rights more than o ne year
after the storm, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Emergen cy
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Assistance Team - Burma. (Medical News Today 100510)
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 Two years ago, in early May 2008, Cyclone Nargis destroyed much of Burma's Irrawaddy Delta and parts of its former capital
city Rangoon with 160 kilometer winds and a massive storm surge, killing more than 140,000 people. (The Huffington Post
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100510)
 Myanmar''s Yangon municipal authorities is urgently distributing water to residents in the water -scarce city during the current
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summer season, the Yangon City Development Committee said on Tuesday. (Xinhua 110510)
 In the early years of the new century, Chinese dam builders and financiers appeared on the global hydropower market with a
bang. China Exim Bank and companies such as Sinohydro, China Gezhouba Group and China Southern Power Grid started to
take on large, destructive projects in countries like Myanmar and Sudan, which had previously been shunned by the
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international community. (Asia Times 120510)
 Two people have died of heat strike in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon over the past few days, the local weekly Yangon
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Times reported Tuesday. (Xinhua 110510)
 Aid workers have expressed concern that recovery work in cyclone-affected Myanmar may be hampered by the disbandment of
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a coordinating group set up to oversee aid efforts. (IRIN 120510)
 Dwindling water supplies to Rangoon are being exacerbated by frequent electricity cuts in the city, with some residents now
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unable to pump water to their apartments. (DVB 140510)
 Local groups of Burmese people have started helping drought-stricken people, but the military remains inactive as ponds and
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rivers dry up in many parts of Burma due to high temperatures and the late monsoon. (Irrawaddy 140510)
 The death toll from a near unprecedented heatwave in Burma is rising as the government warns against exertion and
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consumption of alcohol. (DVB 170510)
 Electricity for businesses in Rangoon was cut off on Friday by the state -own Myanmar Electric Power Enterprise (MEPE), partly
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as a result of low-water levels at hydropower generating plants. (Irrawaddy 170510)
 A fierce heat wave in Burma has combined with a drought to create serious water shortages in many parts of the country.
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(Irrawaddy 170510)
 Record temperatures in Burma have led to an increased number of deaths among children and the elderly in Rangoon and
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Mandalay townships, according to social workers. (Irrawaddy 170510)
 Strong wind with heavy rainfall continued to strike Myanmar's northwestern Monywa township in Sagaing division Sunday,
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causing loss and damage, a local weekly reported Monday. (Xinhua 170510)
 At least 230 people have died of heat stress in Myanmar's second largest city of Mandalay during the weekend, as temperature
recorded at 45 degree Celsius, the local daily quoted Mandalay municipal authorities as reporting Wednesday. (Bernama
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190510)
 Cyclone Laila at yellow level occurring over Southwest Bay of Bengal is assumed not moving towards Myanmar, an official daily
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reported Wednesday quoting a forecast of the Myanmar Meteorology and Hydrology Department. (Xinhua 190510)
 Due to both poor rice harvests following the 2009 rainy season, and planting delays caused by this year’s extended dry season
and rampant water shortages, rice prices in Mon State are now dramatically higher than they were in May 2009, and farmers
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from the region claim that prices will only continue to elevate. (IMNA 210510)
 Two years after the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis created a rare opening for foreign assistance into Myanmar, aid
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-scott-mathieson/hope-and-humanitarian-spa_b_570203.html
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/LE12Cb02.html
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=89098
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http://www.dvb.no/news/water-crisis-hits-rangoon/9051
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http://www.dvb.no/news/scores-die-in-relentless-heatwave/9060
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workers say they still face numerous operating challenges. (IRIN 240510)
ILLEGAL DRUGS
 The Myanmar authorities obliterated 43.6 hectares more illegal poppy plantation in the country's two states over the past
week, bringing the total plantations spoiled in the poppy cultivation season in 2009 -10 to 8,355 hectares, according to the latest
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compiled statistics of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control Wednesday. (Xinhua 120510)
 A woman from Maungdaw was arrested on Monday by police with a chemical worth about 20 million Burmese kyat as she was
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traveling to Sittwe from Buthidaung in northern Arakan State on a ferry ship, said a source close to police. (Narinjara 140510)
 Police recently nabbed five members of a Myanmar family believed to be trafficking in drugs, at a terrace house in Pandan
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Mewah, Ampang. (Bernama 260510)
 Although more poppy cultivation saw increase in the 2009-2010 season than the last 2008-2009 season in Burma, opium output
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is down due to harsh weather, according to poppy farmers in Shan State. (SHAN 310510)
GENERAL NEWS
Health/ Disease
 Diarrhoea has hit Waw township in Myanmar's Bago division-East amid water scarcity, the state-run newspaper New Light of
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Myanmar reported Thursday. (Xinhua 140510)
 Jane Birkin, the internationally acclaimed actress and musician who has been a Burma activist for over a decade, recently
concluded a three-day trip to the Thai-Burma border in and around Mae Sot, where she visited several organizations in an
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effort to spread awareness of Burma related issues. (Irrawaddy 140510)
 Myanmar needs an estimated US$20 million to scale up malaria prevention measures, especially the distribution of long -lasting
insecticide-treated bed nets, early diagnosis and proper treatment, Osamu Kunii, chief of health and nutrition at the UN
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Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Myanmar, told IRIN. (IRIN 180510)
 A serious shortage in use of contraception by gay and bisexual men in the Asia-Pacific region, coupled with criminalisation of
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the practice, is causing “alarming” rates of HIV. (DVB 190510)
 Dogs in Maungdaw on the western Burmese border have been dying from an unknown disease, but people believe the deaths
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are related to the increasingly high temperatures in the area. (Narinjara 150510)
Other
 As daylight fades, a teenage girl wearing heavy make-up, a black t-shirt and blue jeans sits on a bench and gazes—with a mix of
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anticipation and trepidation—along the Rangoon-Laputta Highway. (Irrawaddy 030510)
 On 27 September 2007, the international community was shocked to see the video clip of Kenji Nagai, a Japanese video
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journalist, shot dead by a Burmese soldier on the streets of Rangoon. (DVB 040510)
 A villager was arrested and fined by Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) on April 28, for allegedly felling a tree i n his
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http://us.oneworld.net/article/369364-myanmar-carving-out-humanitarian-space-post-cyclone
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http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=501290
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http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3050:poppy-farmers-cultivation-up-but-less-output-
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=89163
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http://www.dvb.no/news/hiv-rates-among-asian-men-%E2%80%98alarming%E2%80%99/9082
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compound without permission from the concerned authorities, said a close relative of the victim.(Kaladan 040510)
 A Myanmar-female journalist was attacked by a group of the anti-government protesters on Tuesday afternoon, a witness said.
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(Xinhua 180510)
 Three people were killed and 13 injured last week after a group of men, some dressed in army uniform, fired on villagers in
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southern Burma’s Rangoon division during an attempted armed robbery. (DVB 190510)
 A huge fire broke out at the main market in Burma's biggest city Rangoon on Monday destroying hundreds of shops, but no
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victims were reported, shop owners and officials said. (BKK 240510)
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 One of Burma’s largest wholesale markets, located in downtown Rangoon, has been destroyed by fire. (DVB 240510)
 In a daring robbery two motorcycle borne men looted 3 million Kyats and a mobile phone from a woman, who withdrew money
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from a bank and was on her way back home in Myitkyina the capital of Kachin State, northern Burma. (KNG 240510)
 A blackmailer who threatened to blow up a supermarket in Magwe if a 50 million Kyat ($US50,000) ransom demand is not paid,
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has been arrested on May 22, according to local residents. (DVB 270510)
 The Myanmar education authorities have launched a school enrollment week over the last week of May in anticipation of the
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opening of new academic year 2010-11 beginning June 1. (Xinhua 310510)
 Myanmar's press scrutiny and registration board has suspended two local private news journals, the Voice and First Music, for
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allegedly publishing some articles without prior censorship, according to media circle Monday. (Xinhua 310510)
 The fifth Shweamyutay literary award ceremony was held at Trader’s Hotel in Rangoon last Friday on 28th this month, with only
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six writers earning garlands this year, one of the judges said. (Mizzima 310510)
End of Report : Tuesday, 1st June, 2010
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