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People Daily (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
A Japanese robot, wadaiko and drum beating show will be added to the Mekong-Japan cultural exchange year program here next month, sources with the Japanese Embassy in Yangon said on Wednesday. The performances will take place at the Strand Hotel on Dec. 14,the sources said. In February this year, the Japan-Mekong exchange year was launched in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon and the event was marked...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Vietnam and Myanmar are seeking increased economic and trade cooperation and a meeting on the move between a Vietnamese ministerial delegation and officials of a Myanmar's biggest business organization has taken place recently in Yangon, according to official media report Wednesday. The discussions between the Vietnamese delegation, led by Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Thanh Bien, and the Myanmar...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A Yangon-bound Air India flight got delayed after the latch of a window exit got accidentally opened up by a passenger moments before take-off.
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PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
An activist whose group played a key role in sparking the September 2007 monk-led uprising in Burma has had his 10-year prison sentence extended by eight years, sources close to his family said. Kan Myint, who spent four years in prison in the early 1990’s, was an active member of the commodity protester group, Myanmar Development Committee, whose protests against the sudden hike in fuel prices...
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
At the four-day event, 52 Vietnamese businesses are displaying products such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, foodstuffs, garments, footwear, electronics, stationery, household utensils, construction materials, fertilisers, rubber and furniture.Meanwhile, 10 companies from the host country are exhibiting fisheries products, consumer goods, traditional handicrafts and pictures made from gems.Viet Nam...
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Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Filed under: Burma Journal Burma is not a good place to get sick. It’s a bad place for a lot of things — basic freedoms, rule of law, taxis (the fleet in Rangoon is about 30 years old and suffering from some seriously gnarly transmission ailments). Still, the government has an abysmal record when it comes [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Yangon - Myanmar and Laos strengthened relations with the signing of visa-exemption treaty for their respective citizens and a double-taxation avoidance agreement, state media reported Saturday. The two agreements were signed Friday in the military's...
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A few months ago I went to a sculpture exhibit by Mark Behme, combined with a poetry reading by JoAnne Growney, at the Friendship Heights Village Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where it seemed to me the poetry and the sculpture went together very well, as my father used to say about lyrics that were “wedded” to the music. At the same time both the sculpture and the poetry were strong...
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
http://hninyulwin. wordpress. com/books/ http://hninyulwin. wordpress. com/ http://www.livestat ion.com/channels /66-democratic_ voice_of_ burma_burmese http://www.niknayma n-niknayman. co.cc/ http://www.myanmard aily.net/ ????? (??????????????????) Please sign up http://www.avaaz. org/en/jail_ the_generals/ ?cl=293661704&v=3762 Private schools shifted under Ministry of Education Today, November...
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Cave Cibum (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
On Monday night, I met up with my friend Melody and the wonderful Erin of Erin Cooks for a screening of Babette's Feast at the Coolidge Corner Theatre . I felt like a bad food writer for never having seen it before. Of course, we couldn't go into a movie about food without eating something first, so we decided to meet up at the newly opened Regal Beagle just down the street. The Regal Beagle is a warm...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yangon - The National Geographic Channel is due in Myanmar this month to shoot a documentary on the country's hard-working elephants, sources close to the project said Thursday. They will come here this month to document the state of Myanmar's domes...
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
http://hninyulwin. wordpress. com/books/ http://hninyulwin. wordpress. com/ http://www.livestat ion.com/channels /66-democratic_ voice_of_ burma_burmese http://www.niknayma n-niknayman. co.cc/ http://www.myanmard aily.net/ ????? (??????????????????) Please sign up http://www.avaaz. org/en/jail_ the_generals/ ?cl=293661704&v=3762 At least 50 dead in Myanmar ferry crash Today, November 18, 2009,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yangon - Myanmar has opened discussions on building a railway link between its north-eastern Shan State and China's Yunnan province, media reports said Wednesday. The Myanmar-China railway link will connect Lashio, capital of Shan state in the north...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
YANGON, Myanmar -- Searchers have recovered more bodies from a ferry accident in Myanmar, bringing the confirmed death toll to 31, with about a dozen people still unaccounted for.
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
AP – Nyan Win, lawyer for Myanmar’s pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, talks to journalists during at … Slideshow:Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi 30 mins ago YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sent a letter to the head of the country’s junta seeking a [...]
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