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    Day: August 20, 2015

    August 20, 2015in Bullet Points, News604by DVB
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    DVB Bulletin: 20 August 2015

    Watch today’s top stories with Angus Watson

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    Additional sentences for Latpadaung activists
    August 20, 2015in Latpadaung, Lead Story, News259by NAW NOREEN / DVB
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    Additional sentences for Latpadaung activists

    Five activists previously sentenced to prison after a protest Rangoon last year, are sentenced to four months each in prison by the Ahlone township court.

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    Burmese solider killed by roadside bomb: witness
    August 20, 2015in Lead Story, News477by NANG MYA NADI / DVB
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    Burmese solider killed by roadside bomb: witness

    An attack on a Burmese army convoy in northern Shan State has left one solider dead and two injured, according to a witness.

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    Mandalay govt vows crackdown on same-sex couples
    August 20, 2015in Lead Story, News, Politics169by ANGUS WATSON / DVB
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    Mandalay govt vows crackdown on same-sex couples

    Minister Myint Kyu characterised homosexuality as “unacceptable” and threatened to detain and “educate” gay men in particular.

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