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Malka gains Rs 50 per quintal on retailers demand

hindu.com
11-Nov-2008
        

New Delhi (PTI): Malka prices gained Rs 50 per quintal in the national capital on Monday on pick up in retailers demand in view of marriage season. Elsewhere, prices fluctuated in a narrow range on alternate bouts of trading,...

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Burmese Activists Jailed for 65 Years Over Protests

buzzle.com
11-Nov-2008
        

Another 20 activists are being tried on numerous charges and could face sentences of up to 150 years each A closed military court in Burma sentenced 14 pro-democracy activists to 65 years each in prison yesterday for their part...

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yahoo.com: Myanmar refuses to back down in row with Bangladesh yahoo.com

Myanmar moves gas exploration work to another offshore block

xinhuanet.com
09-Nov-2008 130 related
        

YANGON, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has moved its natural gas exploration work from an offshore block AD-7 to another offshore block A-3 after claiming that successful survey was conducted at AD-7, according to a report of the...

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wsvn.com: Myanmar's military leader congratulates Obama wsvn.com

Myanmar junta congratulates Obama

indiaenews.com
08-Nov-2008 20 related
        

From correspondents in Yangon, Myanmar, 02:30 PM IST Joining a world hopeful of change, Myanmar's military junta has sent congratulation notes to US president-elect Barack Obama and vice president-elect Joseph Biden, news...

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Burma lifts post-cyclone rice export ban

usatoday.com
08-Nov-2008 4 related
        

Rangoon, Burma (AP) — A Burma newspaper says the military government has lifted a rice export ban it imposed after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country's main rice-growing areas in the Irrawaddy Delta and south of Rangoon in...

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Hopeful Myanmar junta sends congratulations to Obama [The Earth Times Online Newspaper]

feeds4all.com
08-Nov-2008 142 related
        

Yangon - Joining a world hopeful for change, Myanmar's military junta has sent congratulation notes to president-elect Barack Obama and vice president-elect Joseph Biden, news reports said Saturday. State Peace and Development...

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First person: 'I was brutally tortured for six months'

independent.co.uk
08-Nov-2008
        

Ko Aung was a student in Burma during the country's 8888 uprising, named after the date on which it began, 8 August 1988. Thousands of people, mostly Buddhist monks and students, were slaughtered by the country's armed forces....

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yahoo.com: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi yahoo.com

Myanmar pro-democracy lawyers jailed for four months

thenews.com.pk
08-Nov-2008 11 related
        

YANGON: Myanmar's High Court sentenced two lawyers from Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party to four months each in prison for contempt of court, a party spokesman told foreign news agency Saturday. Nyan Win said the jailing...

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Myanmar top leader congratulates Obama over election as U.S. President

xinhuanet.com
08-Nov-2008 44 related
        

YANGON, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar top leader Senior-General Than Shwe has congratulated Barack Obama on his election as the President of the United States of America in the 2008 Presidential Election. The congratulatory...

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Democratic Voice of Burma: Saffron revolution monks given lengthy jail terms

burmanet.org
07-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Two monks arrested in connection with last year’s Saffron Revolution have been given lengthy jail terms by Rangoon Kyauktaga township court yesterday morning, according to legal sources. Sayadaw U Indaka, abbot of Maggin...

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