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    New Zealander jailed in Burma to be released Friday

    Phil Blackwood, a New Zealand national incarcerated in Rangoon’s Insein Prison since December 2014, was released in a Presidential Amnesty on Friday.

    2015 Elections Analysis Lead Story News

    NLD majority poses threat to minority politics

    “The upsurge of support for the NLD among the indigenous peoples is interesting, considering ethnic politics is concentrated largely in extra-parliamentary politics, that being the armed struggle.”

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    The Great Jade Robbery

    Burma’s military junta continues to rape the land of its most precious commodity, according to a stinging new report by Global Witness.

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    Analysis Ethnic issues Lead Story News Peace Process

    Ceasefire signing marks end of the beginning

    Thursday’s signatories will hope that the inking of the ceasefire, with its broad but stated points to address localised conflict, will provide the time needed for lengthy discussions to come.

    Elections Lead Story News

    2015 election: State TV to host political adverts, but there’s a catch

    Burma’s state-run broadcaster will carry 15-minute party political broadcasts throughout the 60-day campaign period ahead of the general election on 8 November, but authorities have dictated a number of red lines.

    Lead Story News Politics

    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.

    DVB speaks to Karen power broker Naw Zipporah Sein video

    Interview Lead Story News Video

    DVB speaks to Karen power broker Naw Zipporah Sein

    The Karen National Union vice president told DVB that current fighting in northern and eastern Burma has damaged trust.

    Business Foreign Affairs Lead Story News

    Tay Za’s wife removed from US blacklist

    In a 9 July notice posted on the US Treasury website, Thidar Zaw, 51, was noted as having been removed from the blacklist.

    INTERVIEW: DVB speaks to education reformist Dr Thein Lwin video

    Education Interview Lead Story Video

    INTERVIEW: DVB speaks to education reformist Dr Thein Lwin

    ‘Where to from here for Burma’s education reform movement?’

    Interview Lead Story News Peace Process

    Interview: Ethnic leader vows to keep Kokang in peace process

    DVB speaks to Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team member Hkun Okker as 3 ethnic groups threaten to quit the ethnic bloc.

    Analysis Lead Story

    Thingyan violence lays bare 969 hypocrisy

    The failure of nationalist hardliners to react to routine cases of violence against women suggests that it is ownership of Buddhist women and girls – rather than their protection – that motivates them.

    Classic cars on the road to Mandalay video

    Culture Feature Lead Story News Travel & Tourism Video

    Classic cars on the road to Mandalay

    70 antique cars set off from Singapore this month and have passed through Malaysia and Thailand, en route to Mandalay.

    Business Lead Story News

    Burma’s businesses still lack transparency: MCRB

    The Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business has found that the majority of domestic firms are unwilling or unable to disclose information on their own human rights standards.

    Lead Story Media News

    DVB journalist Zaw Pe freed

    Zaw Pe was freed from Thayat prison, Magwe on Friday after a court reduced his sentence from one year to three months.

    Lead Story Media News

    Zaw Pe to be freed this weekend

    Magwe divisional court has reduced the sentence of DVB video-journalist Zaw Pe from one year to three months.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Civil society leaders released from Insein

    Nay Myo Zin and Win Cho were released from Insein Prison on Tuesday, having spent 84 days locked up for organising an unauthorised demonstration in downtown Rangoon.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Government, rights groups at odds on third anniversary of Kachin conflict

    As a now three year old conflict in northern Burma continues, rights groups are calling on an otherwise ambivalent Burmese government to put a stop to violations.

    Analysis Lead Story

    US aims to boost investment in Burma

    US companies remain under the microscope as they navigate sanctions to invest in an opening Burma.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Obama champions US role in Burma reform

    In a speech on Wednesday, US President Barack Obama pointed to “American leadership” as a driver of democratic reform in Burma.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    World Bank to boost Burma’s education system

    The World Bank has announced it will provide US$100 million to expand the Burmese Ministry of Education’s School Grants and School Stipends Programme.

    Lead Story Media News

    Magwe activists march for press freedom

    One month after a court in Magwe handed DVB video journalist Zaw Pe a year-long prison sentence, more than 200 protestors took to the streets of the central Burmese city to stage an unauthorised demonstration in support of press freedom.

    Analysis Lead Story Media News

    On World Press Freedom Day, how free is the Burmese media?

    The Burmese media landscape is blighted by the existence of six imprisoned media workers while the Ministry of Information (MoI) appears driven by an agenda seemingly at odds with a revitalised Burmese media community.

    Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Rights group calls for international investigation into sexual violence by Burma military

    Burma Campaign UK have reopened allegations of the Burmese army’s use of sexual violence as a weapon, calling for an international commission into military abuse.

    Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi

    Suu Kyi leaves Europe armed with international support for constitutional change

    Aung San Suu Kyi is due to depart France for home on Wednesday, having canvased international support for her agenda of constitutional change in Burma.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Win Tin given ‘50-50 chance’ despite regaining consciousness

    The NLD has been told that party elder Win Tin has a 50-50 chance of survival as he remains in a Rangoon ICU following an operation on his large intestine on Saturday.

    Analysis Lead Story News

    Burma’s badly needed census may have come too soon

    Incomplete demographic data is holding back development efforts in a new Burma, yet counting heads now could cause violence.

    Lead Story News Uncategorized Women's Issues

    Interfaith marriage law violates Constitution: HRW

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Burma’s President Thein Sein and House Speaker Shwe Mann to reject the Emergency Provisions on Marriage Act for Burmese Buddhist Women.

    Ethnic issues Interview Lead Story News Society

    Building consensus on the census

    DVB’s Angus Watson speaks to Janet Jackson, Burma Representative of the United Nations Population Fund, and her assistant Hla Hla Aye, about the international agency’s role in the upcoming census, its significance and the potential pitfalls.

    Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Burmese army tortured Shan civilians, says rights group

    The Shan Human Right Foundation has accused the Burmese army of an attack on 11 villages in Shan State, in which civilians were tortured.

    Lead Story News Politics

    HRW slams UN invitation for Burmese peacekeepers

    Human Rights Watch has written to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, heavily criticizing the UN invitation to involve the Burmese army in future international peacekeeping missions.

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