Rangoon Division

Myanmar to add one more border trade point with Bangladesh

xinhuanet.com
13-Nov-2008 9 related
        

YANGON, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has planned to add one more border trade point in its western Rakhine state linking Bangladesh, the local weekly Pyi Myanmar reported Thursday quoting the Directorate of Border Trade. Tender...

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Myanmar Cyclone Nargis Yangon Hub Update No. 1

reliefweb.int
13-Nov-2008 1 related
        

OVERVIEW & KEY DEVELOPMENTS - The ASEAN Hub Officer has recently arrived in Pyapon to be co-located with OCHA hub-office The overall objective of this deployment is to enhance tripartite cooperation at the hub level, modelling...

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Irrawaddy: The cost of death in Burma – Aung Thet Wine

burmanet.org
12-Nov-2008
        

Ma Hnin Sanda, 25, lies on her bed suffering from severe tuberculosis, waiting for her last day on Earth in a small hut in Sein Sar Pin village. Her body is wasted, her eyes sunken and her bones protrude from her body because...

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voanews.com: Armed Burmese security forces march down streets of downtown Rangoon, 27 Sep 2007 voanews.com

US Condemns Harsh Sentences for Burmese Dissidents

voanews.com
12-Nov-2008 6 related
        

The United States has joined human rights advocates in condemning long prison terms handed down against at least 30 Burmese dissidents on Tuesday. The Bush administration has used some of its sharpest language to date in...

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In Burma, business ventures start with military

sfgate.com
12-Nov-2008
        

Located in dense jungle hills, this jade mining town is a prime example of the nation's business climate. The northern town of 20,000 residents is connected to the outside world by a single crumbling road, a bone-crushing 16...

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Exotic Wing plans Wi-Fi network

telegeography.com
12-Nov-2008
        

Malaysian news agency Bernama is reporting that Myanmar is looking to introduce a Wi-Fi network early next year. Local IT company Exotic Wing is believed to be planning to launch the service in 16 districts of the former...

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Heavily armed police block off a street in downtown ...

yahoo.com
12-Nov-2008
        

Heavily armed police block off a street in downtown Yangon in 2007. Canada has called on Myanmar for the immediate release of all political prisoners, including activists arrested during anti-junta protests last year and given...

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Applied Pharmaceutical Management Course concludes

pharmiweb.co.uk
11-Nov-2008
        

YANGON, 10 Nov-The concluding ceremony of Advanced Applied Pharmaceutical Management Course No. 3 organized by Myanmar Medical Merchants and En-trepreneurs' Associa-tion was held at the office of UMFCCI Office Tower on Minye...

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BIMSTEC summit to enhance economic co-op

xinhuanet.com
12-Nov-2008 63 related
        

YANGON, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar Prime Minister General Thein Sein is due to leave Nay Pyi Taw later on Wednesday for New Delhi to attend the Second Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and...

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Blogger gets 20 years for 'attack' on dictator

independent.ie
12-Nov-2008 3 related
        

By Richard Lloyd Parry in Rangoon Wednesday November 12 2008 A young blogger and a writer who disguised an attack on a dictator as a love poem have received heavy jail sentences, in the latest blow to opponents of Burma's...

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