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    Day: October 19, 2017

    Explosives, drugs seized in Maungdaw
    October 19, 2017in Drugs, Lead Story, News1120by DVB
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    Explosives, drugs seized in Maungdaw

    Acting on a tip-off from residents in Letphwekya Village, security forces uncovered the cache of weapons beside a riverbank.

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    Activists set talks with Chevron on Burma rights concerns
    October 19, 2017in Arakan, International Relations, Lead Story, News, Rohingya996by REUTERS
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    Activists set talks with Chevron on Burma rights concerns

    Shareholder activists will speak with Chevron Corporation next week to request that the energy giant use its influence with the government of Burma to press for a resolution of ethnic…

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    October 19, 2017in Lead Story, News, Video1111by YE MON
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    At least two dead as fire decimates Rangoon’s Kandawgyi Palace hotel

    A massive fire destroyed most of the Kandawgyi Palace in the early hours of Thursday morning, with at least one death reported at one of Rangoon’s most iconic hotels.

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    ‘World can’t just stand idly by,’ America’s top envoy says of Rohingya crisis
    October 19, 2017in Arakan, International Relations, Lead Story, News, Rohingya258by REUTERS
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    ‘World can’t just stand idly by,’ America’s top envoy says of Rohingya crisis

    US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday the United States held Burma’s military leadership responsible for its harsh crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority.

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