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14 December 2023
Mizzima Weekly Magazine Issue 50, Vol. 12, December 14, 2023
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12 March 2015
The problem with Facebook
Facebook is supposed to bring people together. But it can be divisive and problematic. We...
The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft on a test flight. Photo: Solar Impulse Project
Features
12 March 2015
Myanmar’s solar opportunity
Mission impossible. That is what the Swiss inventors and pilots Betrand Piccard and Andre...
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12 March 2015
Myanmar groups in Malaysia protest student...
Myanmar Buddhist activists staged a protest alongside Rohingya Muslims in Kuala Lumpur,...
Ma Wahkushee Tenner of the Women’s League of Burma, left, on visit to Canada. Photo: Inter Pares
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12 March 2015
Call to end human rights abuse in ethnic areas
Two ethnic women from Myanmar testified at the Canadian Parliament on March 10, calling...
Police crack down on the students protest in Letpadan, Bago Region, Myanmar, March 10, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
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12 March 2015
UK NGO calls for review of aid in wake of police...
Burma Campaign UK is calling on the British government, European Union, USA and other...
PNS Zulfiquar, a Pakistan Navy frigate, seen here on a goodwill visit to Port Klang, Malaysia, in August 2009. Photo: Wikipedia
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12 March 2015
Pakistani navy ship docks in Yangon on goodwill...
A Pakistani navy ship named “PNS Zulfiquar”, commanded by Captain Amir Mahmood, paid a...
Luiz Kaypoe, British Minister Desmond Swayne MP, and Naw Tamla Saw in London at the end of February. Photo: KWO
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11 March 2015
Karen women’s group ‘shocked’ by UK help for...
The Karen Women’s Organization has successfully completed a lobbying trip to the UK,...
Two student protesters are dragged by members of a pro-government paramilitary group, the so-called Swan-Arr-Shin in Myanmar, during a crackdown on a students' protest which demands amendments to the National Education Bill in Yangon, Myanmar, March 5, 2015. Photo: Lamin Tun/EPA
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11 March 2015
Undercover Mon State police monitor student...
Plain clothes police officers are closely monitoring university students protesting the...
A group of students and activists came onto the streets of Yangon at 2 pm in sympathy with the protesters who had been beaten in a melee of violence by police earlier in the day in Letpadan. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
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11 March 2015
Police move fast to crack down on Yangon protest
Riot police were quick to crack down on a march in Hledan market in Yangon, beating...
Myanmar military troops march along a deserted road in Chin Shwe Haw town of Kokang self-administered area, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 16, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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11 March 2015
Myanmar fighting spills over into China
China warned over escalating violence between Myanmar's military and rebel forces after a...
Policemen holding shields as they block the road in front of Yangon City Hall after a crackdown on a students' protest demanding an amendment to National Education Bill in Yangon, Myanmar, March 5, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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11 March 2015
Official inquiry to be held into protest crackdown
Myanmar state media has announced an inquiry into a Yangon protest crackdown, the first...
Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Ko Ko speaks at the Central Committee for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons meeting at the ministry in Nay Pyi Taw on December 29, 2014. Photo: MNA
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11 March 2015
Myanmar prepares own human rights report for UN
The leading committee for compiling the human rights report on Myanmar held their second...

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