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    Month: July 2017

    Journalist Swe Win released on bail
    July 31, 2017in Lead Story, Media, News342by NAW NOREEN / DVB
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    Journalist Swe Win released on bail

    Swe Win was remanded in custody and escorted to Mandalay, where Maha Aung Myay court agreed to release him until his trial begins on 7 August.

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    Murdered Eleven journalist case still unsolved
    July 31, 2017in Lead Story, Media, News268by YE MON
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    Murdered Eleven journalist case still unsolved

    Before his death, Soe Moe Tun had focused his reporting on illegal logging and KTV operations in Monywa and the surrounding areas.

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    10 dead from H1N1, but Burma’s authorities say public is safe
    July 31, 2017in Health, Lead Story, Mandalay Division, News498by DVB
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    10 dead from H1N1, but Burma’s authorities say public is safe

    Meanwhile, in Mandalay, the annual Taung Pyone festival has been called off due to fears of spreading the virus.

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    High-profile journalist detained at Rangoon airport
    July 31, 2017in Lead Story, Media, News304by ANDREW D. KASPAR
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    High-profile journalist detained at Rangoon airport

    The prominent Burmese journalist Swe Win was arrested at Yangon International Airport on Sunday evening as he attempted to leave Burma, with authorities justifying his detention on the grounds that…

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    Police break up farmers' protest camp in Mandalay
    July 28, 2017in Land, Lead Story, Mandalay Division, News68by DVB
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    Police break up farmers' protest camp in Mandalay

    Police forcibly broke up a sit-in last night, when they cleared farmers, who were protesting land grabs, from a site in central Mandalay. The farmers had been occupying the protest…

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    Trial underway for journalists accused of unlawful association
    July 28, 2017in Lead Story, Media, News340by ANDREW D. KASPAR
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    Trial underway for journalists accused of unlawful association

    The trial of three journalists and three other men accused of “unlawful association” with an ethnic armed group began in earnest on Friday, with a court in Hsipaw Township, Shan…

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