Sunday, October 07, 2012

Obama signs Myanmar finance bill into law


6-Oct-12
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a measure 
making it easier for the United States to back international financial institutions 
which support Myanmar's reform drive.

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Rights group calls charges to be dropped against Kachin peace protesters


5-Oct-12
This week Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Burmese government 
to drop all charges against 13 activists who organized a September 21 peace 
day demonstration in Rangoon and Myitkyina.

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Forced labor continues


Friday, 05 October 2012 12:46 S.H.A.N.

Since June, the new government has regained its full membership 
in the International Labor Organization (ILO) after promising to eliminate 
forced labor by 2015 and to put the military under civilian laws 

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Burma inks diplomatic ties with Latvia, Estonia


Friday, 05 October 2012 14:52 Mizzima News

Burma has established ambassadorial diplomatic ties with Latvia and Estonia, 

the state-run newspaper said on Thursday. Latvia and Estonia are the fourth 

and fifth countries that Burma has linked up with in 2012 after Malawi, 

Bhutan and Luxembourg.


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Buddhist in Sri Lanka condemn religious violence in Bangladesh


Friday, 05 October 2012 13:22 Mizzima News
Hundreds of Buddhist monks from Burma, Thailand and Bangladesh demonstrated 
in Sri Lanka on Thursday to protest the recent wave of violence 
targeting Buddhist in Bangladesh.

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18 Students Die in Yunnan Mudslide


5-Oct-12

BEIJING—All 18 elementary school students buried in a landslide were confirmed 
dead on Friday, while one other person remained missing a day after a hillside 
collapsed and smothered part of a village in mountainous southwestern China.

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