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    Lead Story News Technology & Science

    Hardline monks in Burma vow to stay on Facebook despite ban

    Burma’s hardline monks will dodge bans on Facebook and keep using the social media giant to “tell the truth,” they said on Friday, after it barred several Buddhist nationalists for hate messages targeting Rohingya Muslims.

    Lead Story News

    Calls for construction company of faulty school construction to be blacklisted

    Cracks in a new school building in the country’s northwest has led to calls for construction company Pyae Gaday to be banned from further tenders.

    Lead Story News Politics Rohingya

    Burma, UN agencies sign Rohingya repatriation pact

    The Burmese government has signed an agreement with UN agencies to facilitate the voluntary return of Rohingya refugees.

    Lead Story News

    Naypyidaw negotiating rice export deal with Yunnan

    Burma is negotiating a rice export deal with the Yunnan provincial government.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Aid workers concerned over ambitious plan to close IDP camps

    The Burmese government is drawing up plans to shutter displacement camps across the country, but aid workers say food rations and sustainable security should be first on the priority list.

    Lead Story Media News Politics

    Defense lawyers say documents from Reuters reporters’ phones ‘not secret’

    Defence lawyers for detained Reuters journalists argued on Tuesday that information found on their phones was already public by the time they were arrested.

    Lead Story Media News Politics

    Defence says Burmese police withheld key evidence in Reuters trial

    Defence lawyers say data that could support the case of two Reuters in a landmark press freedom case was missing from evidence submitted by the prosecution on Monday.

    Lead Story News Rakhine

    Burma’s says it is willing to take back all Rohingya refugees

    Burma is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return, the country’s National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said on Saturday.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Anti-war protesters call on Suu Kyi to act against ‘violent’ police

    Anti-war protesters on Wednesday urged government leader Aung San Suu Kyi to take action against police who this month broke up a peace rally and arrested them, and raised new concern about freedom of speech.

    Lead Story Media News

    Defence attorney says evidence from Reuters reporters’ phones may be ‘tainted’

    Evidence Burmese police say they obtained from the mobile phones of two Reuters reporters accused of possessing secret documents might be “tainted,” a defence lawyer said on Tuesday, because at least one phone was used after it was confiscated.

    Land Lead Story News

    Rural poor squeezed by land concessions in Mekong region: report

    Companies acquired concessions amounting to the size of a small European country, while rural residents of Southeast Asia’s Mekong region saw their landholdings shrink or disappear over the past two decades, according to researchers.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Military-bred cabinet member ‘reassigned,’ replaced

    Burma’s deputy minister for home affairs, Aung Soe, has been “reassigned to perform his original military duties” and is replaced in the cabinet by Major-General Aung Thu from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief, according to the President’s Office.

    Lead Story Media News

    Police witness says searched Reuters reporters’ phones without warrant

    Police in Burma examined the mobile phones of two Reuters reporters accused of possessing secret documents without a search warrant after their arrests in December, an officer told a court on Monday, in what has become a landmark press freedom case.

    Drugs Lead Story News

    Malaysia makes record bust of crystal meth, shipped from Burma

    Malaysia has made its largest ever seizure of crystal methamphetamine, officials said on Monday, finding nearly 1.2 tonnes of the drug disguised as tea in a shipment from Burma, and arrested six suspected traffickers.

    Finance Lead Story News Politics

    Deloitte partner nominated as new finance minister

    Burma’s president on Monday nominated 80-year-old Soe Win, a well-known financial professional, as the next finance minister after the previous one resigned, amid reports he was being investigated over graft accusations.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Finance minister resigns amid graft allegations

    Burma’s Finance Minister Kyaw Win has resigned, weeks after local media first reported he was under investigation for alleged corruption.

    Conflict Lead Story News Rakhine

    Arakan Army offers to return captured Burmese soldiers

    “We have in the past returned prisoners of war via the ICRC, and we would like to do the same for these three soldiers if the ICRC is willing.”

    Lead Story News

    Cheap rides at risk in drive to clean up Southeast Asia streets

    From Manila’s iconic jeepneys to Kuala Lumpur’s motorbike taxis, Southeast Asian capitals are on a drive to clean their streets of vehicles that cause pollution and traffic jams, while experts defend the vital role they play in cities without adequate public transit.

    Lead Story Media News

    Imprisoned Reuters duo honoured by US press freedom group

    Two Burmese journalists for Reuters were honoured in absentia with the PEN America 2018 Barbey Freedom to Write Award on Tuesday in New York, as they remain behind bars more than 8,000 kilometres away, facing charges for what the international news agency says was “simply doing their jobs.”

    Lead Story News Peace Process

    Govt sets sights on June for peace conference

    The Burmese government is aiming to hold the third round of the Union Peace Conference next month, according to the State Counsellor’s Office.

    International Relations Lead Story News

    US House backs measure to clamp down on Burma over Rohingya rights

    Members of the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday in favor of legislation to pressure Burma to improve its record on human rights.

    Crime Lead Story News

    Judicial officer charged with housemaid’s murder

    A woman is in police custody in Twante Township, accused of beating or torturing her housemaid so severely that she died.

    Lead Story News Rakhine

    ARSA militants killed Hindu villagers in Rakhine violence: Amnesty

    Campaign group Amnesty International said on Tuesday it had gathered evidence that insurgents from a Rohingya Muslim armed group killed scores of Hindu civilians in August last year, amid a surge in violence in western Burma.

    Lead Story Media News

    Judge allows documents police say came from Reuters reporters’ phones

    A judge in Yangon on Tuesday allowed the submission of evidence police say they obtained from the mobile phones of two Reuters reporters arrested in December for alleged possession of secret documents, in what has become a landmark press freedom case.

    Drugs Lead Story News

    Drug woes in Burma may spur on peace

    Burma has promised to speed up peace efforts with ethnic minority groups in order to better tackle drug trafficking across its borders.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Kachin anti-war activists to appeal defamation suit: lawyer

    Two Kachin youth activists facing criminal defamation charges after staging a protest calling for the evacuation to safety of civilians displaced by conflict in Kachin State will appeal to the regional court, seeking to have those charges dropped.

    Jade mine landslide kills 1, injures others video

    Lead Story Natural resources News

    Jade mine landslide kills 1, injures others

    A villager in Hpakant told DVB the death toll has risen to two as one of the patients at the hospital died.

    International Relations Lead Story News

    China calls for ceasefire in fighting on Burma side of shared border

    China’s defence ministry has called on armed groups in northern Burma to show restraint and declare an immediate ceasefire after conflicts in the region killed three Chinese citizens.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya

    US aid chief to Burma: Take ‘concrete steps’ on Rohingya rights

    The US government’s aid chief urged Burma on Sunday to take “concrete steps” to guarantee the rights of Rohingya Muslims and to show sincerity in that endeavour in order to encourage hundreds of thousands who have fled the country to return.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Amid fears of conflict in Injangyang, Kachin State govt looks to intervene

    The Kachin State government intends to begin the process of rescuing hundreds of civilians trapped in Injangyang Township by broader regional conflict, with the Burmese military blockading the road linking it to adjacent Myitkyina Township to the west.

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