Rangoon hosts ASEAN Film Festival
Cinema lovers will set their focus on Burma this week as the annual ASEAN film festival begins in Rangoon.
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Latpadaung monastery to be moved, despite public outcry
A famous monastery on the site of the Latpadaung copper mine is to be moved despite opposition from locals, who fear the destruction of the sacred structure.
Suspended animation – Sacked comic illustrators hit back
Illustrators fired by a Korean owned business in Rangoon claim that their sacking was a recrimination for previous union activity.
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Pegu farmers injured in police crackdown
Three farmers are injured in Pegu where police broke up a protest site of about 100 locals who had been demanding the return of farmland they say was confiscated by the army in 2000.
Nine Latpadaung protestors freed
Nine activists have been released following their arrest on Wednesday after a protest near the Latpadaung copper mine turned violent.
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Burma to repatriate workers from Borneo shipyard drama
Twenty-one of the 97 Burmese migrant workers who had locked themselves in a warehouse at a Borneo shipyard after being set upon by a rival gang of workers are due to be flown home this weekend.
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97 Burmese workers in hiding after Borneo shipyard brawl
Nearly 100 Burmese workers are hiding in a warehouse at the Shin Yang Shipyard in the port town on Miri, fearing for their safety after a personal fight between Burmese and Indonesian co-workers almost turned into a mass brawl.
Political prisoners to be honoured post-mortem
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma and Former Political Prisoners Society will provide a certificate of honour and a donation of one million kyat to each of the families of some 50 political activists who died in Burmese prisons during the period of military junta rule since 1988.
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Latpadaung committee pledges US$1.68 million for local development
The Latpadaung implementation committee says that a US$1.68 million budget has been allocated for regional development, including programs of job creation for locals; education; healthcare; electricity supply; supplying potable water; and transportation.
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Latpadaung villagers mark anniversary of firebombing
Around 150 villagers and Buddhist monks gather at Shwezigon Pagoda in Monywa to conduct a prayer ceremony to mark the anniversary, nearly one year ago, of the night riot police brutally firebombed peaceful protestors at a historical Buddhist site near the Latpadaung copper mine.
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Seven villagers shot with rubber bullets in Latpadaung clash
Seven villagers were injured with rubber bullets when police clashed with protestors in Mogyopyin near the Latpadaung copper mine in Sagaing division on Thursday evening.
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Locals, monks resume sit-in protest at Latpadaung
Sit-in protest resumes as authorities deny protestors permission to visit a historic Buddhist temple which the locals suspect was damaged recently by explosives used when mining operations at the controversial copper mine site in Sagaing resumed.
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Twenty more miners arrested over Moehti Moemi protest
Twenty more miners have been charged after staging a protest against the suspension of the Moehti Moemi gold mine in Mandalay and for resisting security guards who came to remove equipment from the dig sites.
Locals protest Latpadaung mine resumption
Local villagers and monks protest as the Latpadaung copper mine project resumes in Sagaing division.
