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    New Zealander jailed in Burma to be released Friday
    January 22, 2016in Lead Story, News1190by ANGUS WATSON / DVB
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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.

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    NLD majority poses threat to minority politics
    November 12, 2015in 2015 Elections, Analysis, Lead Story, News95by ANGUS WATSON / DVB
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    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.”

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    The Great Jade Robbery
    October 23, 2015in Kachin, Lead Story, Natural resources, News196by ANGUS WATSON / DVB
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    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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    Ceasefire signing marks end of the beginning
    October 15, 2015in Analysis, Lead Story, News, Peace Process232by ANGUS WATSON / DVB
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    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.

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    2015 election: State TV to host political adverts, but there’s a catch
    August 28, 2015in Elections, Lead Story, News18by ANGUS WATSON / DVB
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    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…

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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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