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    Category: Human Interest

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    Burmese climbers eye Hkakabo Razi

    Three Burmese men will set out to climb Hkakabo Razi in an attempt to not only reach the peak of the sub-Himalayan mountain but to accurately record its precise height.

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    Maungdaw policeman commits suicide after groping accusation

    The 21-year-old was accused by a local woman of grabbing her hand and saying inappropriate things to her.

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    Human Interest Irrawaddy Division Lead Story News Video

    VIDEO: Schoolgirls ‘possessed’ in the Delta

    The possessions are reported to have begun at Shan Yekyaw High School in August after the school expanded its compound into a neighbouring cemetery.

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    Vengeful ghosts evicted from Delta high school

    To date, 18 girls have been ‘possessed’ – a process which makes them vomit, cry and scream hysterically.

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    ERI calls for release of activist charged with sedition

    Accusing Burma’s armed forces of “going after activists who dare to expose its abuses”, EarthRights International calls for the release of Arakanese activist Khaing Myo Htun.

    Long black hair and Buddhist blessings video

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    Long black hair and Buddhist blessings

    A Rangoon monk initiated a project requesting donations of long hair which could then be made into wigs and hair extensions.

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    Trishaw drivers receive an unexpected gift

    Soe Tint, owner of the Soe Electric and Machinery Company Limited, handed out donations of 100,000 kyat ($85) each to some 680 trishaw drivers in Pyinmana earlier this week.

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    Naypyidaw orphanage crying out for help

    A centre for abandoned children in Naypyidaw is calling for additional funding as it struggles to cope with a recent increase in admissions.

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    Kyaw Thu honoured for funeral work

    Kyaw Thu, founder of the Rangoon Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS) and formerly a renowned actor, has been awarded the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award.

    Aussies taking part in the challenge are only allowed to eat the average rations of a Burmese refugee. (PHOTO: Jade Horrobin).

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    Aussie activists spend a week as refugees

    While most Australians were happily tucking into bacon and eggs on Saturday morning, Jade Horrobin was finishing off the last of her week’s refugee rations.

    Child-trafficking protest forces local officials into action video

    Human Interest Lead Story News Pegu Division Protest

    Child-trafficking protest forces local officials into action

    A protest pushed local authorities into action after their neglectful treatment of a four-year-old girl who had been sold and forced to beg on the streets Prome on 16 December.

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    Burmese ‘castaways’ finally allowed to go home

    Three Burmese fishermen who were rescued after floating across the Indian Ocean for 40 days and nights on a small bamboo boat have finally been given the green light to go home.

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