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19 June 2019
Indian government to reconstruct Women Police Training Centre in Yamathin
Students walk along the Adipadi road of Yangon University in Yangon, Myanmar, December 5, 2013. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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27 March 2015
Myanmar upper house approves student unions
Proposals to allow Myanmar students to form unions for the first time in decades passed...
Global Witness has mapped alleged land grabbing in Shan State. Map: Global Witness
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27 March 2015
NGO report details alleged Shan State land grabs
NGO Global Witness has issued a report about the detrimental effects of influential...
A masked protester holds up a sign in protest while Information Minister U Ye Htut is speaking during the opening session of the IPI World Congress on media freedom in Yangon on March 27, 2015. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
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27 March 2015
Information minister hints at ‘action’ against...
During the opening of the IPI World Congress on press freedom being held in Yangon,...
65th IPI World Congress 2015 opens at the Chatrium Hotel in Yangon on March 27, 2015. Photo: Malik Ayub Sumbal/Twitter
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27 March 2015
Myanmar hosts world press meet amidst boycott...
The International Press Institute is holding its 65th IPI World Congress 2015 at the...
War victims who fled from the conflict zone line up for food at a monastery in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 19, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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26 March 2015
Refugees allege troops rape, beat, kill Kokang...
Refugees in Kokand are accusing Myanmar government troops of gang rape, beatings and...
Students, families and supporters rally outside the Letpadan court on March 25, 2015. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
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26 March 2015
Students could be jailed for up to 9 years: lawyer
One of the lawyers representing the students arrested in Letpadan that they could each be...
Philip Blackwood (C), with U Tun Thurein and U Htut Ko Ko Lwin being taken to court on March 17, 2015. They were sentenced to two and a half years in jail over the posting of an image of Buddha wearing headphones on Facebook. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
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26 March 2015
Petition seeks to free ‘Buddha bar’ trio
Supporters of imprisoned VGastro Pub managers Mr Philip Blackwood, U Tun Thurein and U...
A total of 69 of students and supporters are taken back to prison after a hearing at Letpadan Township Court on March 25, 2015. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
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25 March 2015
Student activists arrive at court for hearing
Dozens of Myanmar activists arrived at court for a hearing in the central town of...
Women are under threat in conflict zones in Myanmar, according to Women's League of Burma. Women preparing plastic bags for transplanting teak and iron timber tree seedlings in In Gan village, Kachin State. Photo: OXFAM Hong Kong
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25 March 2015
Women’s group submits human rights report to UN
Women’s League of Burma submitted a human rights report, including the violent police...
Myanmar nationals walk from Myanmar on their way to Thailand on the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge at Myawaddy-Mae Sot. Photo: Narong Sangnak/EPA
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25 March 2015
Myawaddy frets over Thai fuel shortage
Myanmar soldiers on March 24 closed ports on their side of the Moei River next to Mae Sot...
A Kokang ethnic soldier standing guard outside a hotel as journalists and diplomats attend press conference at the hotel in Myanmar-China border town Laukkai, Myanmar on September 9, 2009. Photo: Khin Maung Win/EPA
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25 March 2015
‘Chinese mercenaries’ recruited by Kokang rebels...
Rebel forces fighting Myanmar troops in the Kokang border region of Shan state are...
A Buddhist monk is treated for severe burns by a medic in Monywa in December 2012 following a police crackdown on protesters. PHOTO: Hein Htet/Mizzima
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25 March 2015
Police reject lawsuit over monk protest burns:...
Police in Myanmar have rejected a lawsuit by monks who suffered phosphorus burns at the...

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