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floridatoday.com: Cindy Hurston, general manager of Elevations International Cafe, makes some floridatoday.com

A café with a 'higher calling'

floridatoday.com
17-Nov-2008
        

Elevations will provide clean water to world's poor BY WAYNE T. PRICE • FLORIDA TODAY • November 17, 2008 Joe Hurston, the founder of and force behind Air Mobile Ministries, has traveled to some of the globe's hot spots...

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yahoo.com: Nine monks jailed in Myanmar: opposition yahoo.com

Myanmar jails democracy activists

reuters.com
15-Nov-2008 341 related
        

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta has sentenced nine democracy activists to 65 years each in jail for their involvement in last year's mass protests against military rule, legal and family sources said Saturday.

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Life in exile in Myanmar

thestar.com.my
15-Nov-2008
        

THE United Nations calls it Myanmar, and the people who opposed the legitimacy of the ruling military government (along with Australia, the United States and Britain) call it Burma. Sein Win: He is a Myanmar journalist...

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Nine more Myanmar activists sentenced to 65 years in jail [The Earth Times Online Newspaper]

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15-Nov-2008 83 related
        

Yangon- Prominent Myanmar dissident Min Ko Naing and eight other student activists have been sentenced to 65 years in prison in an ongoing judicial crackdown on opposition to the ruling junta, witnesses said Saturday. The...

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Irrawaddy: Win Tin, NLD executive member, is ill – Saw Yan Naing

burmanet.org
14-Nov-2008
        

Win Tin, 79, a central executive committee member of the National League for Democracy (NLD), had an asthma attack on Friday morning and is resting at home, according to a close friend in Rangoon. Maung Maung Khin, told The...

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Mizzima: Reporter covering Nargis victims sentenced to two years - Myint Maung

burmanet.org
14-Nov-2008 1 related
        

A local woman journalist, attached to weekly ‘Ecovision Journal’ was sentenced to two years in jail by a court in Rangoon’s Tamwe Township on Friday. The sentence handed out to reporter Ein Khaing Oo, barely 24-years-old,...

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bbc.co.uk: Monks protest in Rangoon (Sept 2007) bbc.co.uk

Burma court jails more protesters

bbc.co.uk
14-Nov-2008 4 related
        

Last year's protests posed a major challenge to the military junta At least 11 more Burmese activists have received jail sentences for taking part in anti-government protests last year. It brings the total number sentenced this...

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Myanmar allows Mercy to build hospitals

thestar.com.my
14-Nov-2008 1 related
        

KUALA LUMPUR: Mercy Malaysia (Mercy) is the first international non-governmental or­­ganisation allowed to build two small hospitals and 12 rural health centres in Myanmar’s Irrawady delta area. The medical facilities that will...

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MYANMAR: Shortage of seedlings holds back mangrove recovery

irinnews.org
13-Nov-2008 2 related
        

YANGON, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - A shortage of seedlings is undermining the restoration of mangrove forests along the southern coast, six months after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, environmentalists told IRIN in Yangon.

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Myanmar saves $8 million by substituting fuel with gas monthly

xinhuanet.com
13-Nov-2008 1 related
        

YANGON, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has saved nearly 8 million U.S. dollars per month by substituting imported fuel with domestically-produced natural gas in operating motor vehicles, the local 7-Day News reported Thursday. It...

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