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    Burma govt slams Quintana allegation as ‘totally wrong’
    August 22, 2013in Lead Story, News, Politics5by HANNA HINDSTROM
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    Burma govt slams Quintana allegation as ‘totally wrong’

    Presidential spokesman Ye Htut defends Meikhtila police and says the UN envoy’s allegation that his convoy was attacked is totally wrong.

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    Without self-determination, revolution will go on: Mon militia
    August 22, 2013in News171by NANG MYA NADI / DVB
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    Without self-determination, revolution will go on: Mon militia

    Speaking on the occasion of the 66th Mon Revolution Day on Wednesday, Maj Nai Siri Mon Chan, a spokesman for the NMSP, urged all Mon people to unite and join…

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    Karen state hit with flooding for second time in the last month
    August 22, 2013in Environment, Lead Story, News25by NAW NOREEN / DVB
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    Karen state hit with flooding for second time in the last month

    Monsoon rains inundated large swaths of Karen state earlier this week as local authorities scramble to set up relief camps in flood-hit areas.

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    August 22, 2013in Health, Lead Story, News, Video23by SAW NANG
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    Burma’s electricity woes harm medicines, risk lives

    Due to constant power failures across Burma, medicines that need to be kept at specifically refrigerated temperatures, such as cancer medication and insulin, are becoming damaged and putting patients’ lives…

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    First Chin conference in six decades to convene in November
    August 22, 2013in Culture, News20by NANG MYA NADI / DVB
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    First Chin conference in six decades to convene in November

    A collection of Chin political parties, civil society organisations and an armed group are set to hold the ethnic group’s first conference in six decades later this year.

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    Thailand urged to lay out clear migrant policy
    August 22, 2013in Lead Story, News, Politics1by NANG MYA NADI / DVB
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    Thailand urged to lay out clear migrant policy

    Advocacy groups on Wednesday called on the Thai government to lay out a concrete policy for migrant workers including conditions for access to social security and healthcare.

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