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Eleven Media chiefs questioned over defamation allegations
The EMG CEO and chief editor are being sued by the Rangoon regional government over an article written last week alleging backhanders and cronyism.
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The EMG CEO and chief editor are being sued by the Rangoon regional government over an article written last week alleging backhanders and cronyism.
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The commotion comes after Eleven Media CEO Than Htut Aung wrote an editorial lambasting the government for failing to tackle corruption and crony capitalism.
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Recent successes over two very distinct issues prove the hardline monks’ group has its own broad political agenda.
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The Burmese government orders the cancellation of the Dagon City real estate projects due to public concerns about their proximity to Shwedagon Pagoda.
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CP Land Plc plans to pay US$16 million this year to take over an office building in Rangoon.
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People living on the bank of the Irrawaddy river say they had no warning before they saw their squats bulldozed ahead of a visit by the Norwegian royals.
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“We have gone from what was essentially a gold rush to virtually no buyers whatsoever,” a property broker from Rangoon’s Twante Township, Myint Oo, told DVB.
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Protestors that have been occupying a sidewalk of downtown Rangoon for more than six months have been given a deadline of 3 October to vacate the site and dismantle their encampment.
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A controversial urban expansion plan for Burma’s former capital, Rangoon, was brought before an emergency session of the regional parliament on Monday.
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The government has returned 5,000 acres of land to residents in Mandalay’s Tada-U, after confiscating it in 1993 to make way for construction of an airport.
The government is drafting plans to provide housing for the homeless in more than 50 towns and cities.
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Monks and staff residing at the Mahasantisukha Monastery are accused of violating religious property law and will face charges, the Ministry of Religious Affairs warned in a press conference on Wednesday.
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Local authorities have demolished 50 huts belonging to squatters on the banks of the Irrawaddy in Mandalay Division.
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Farmers in central Burma’s Madaya have vandalised a local fishery pond in a show of anger over the reluctance of the fishery owners to negotiate.
Dozens of lawyers marched through downtown Rangoon on Wednesday to protest the privatisation of two colonial-era buildings.
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DVB’s special investigative documentary exposes how court procedures are manipulated using false evidence and documents. We follow one case and one woman who is using the courts to falsely claim ownership of two plots of land.
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Over 200 displaced people who were evicted from Thameelay village have spent two nights at the Karen border after authorities bar their entry into Karen state.
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A fire in Irrawaddy division’s Henzada town on Wednesday has killed one person and destroyed five houses.
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Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd (YSH) and Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd (HSH) announced on Monday that they will partner on the development of the Peninsula Yangon [Rangoon], a five-star resort that will incorporate the 1880s structure into a more modern type of travel hub.
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DVB Interview International spoke to Tony Picon, the managing director of Colliers International in Burma, about the state of the country’s property market and advice for foreign companies and investors who are thinking of operating in Burma.
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Over 200 acres of land confiscated by the military is given back to villagers in Myanaung township.
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Four farmers in central Burma’s Madaya have been charged with trespassing and vandalism, after staging a ploughing protest on land that had been confiscated by the government.
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Up to 80,000 people living in a shantytown in Rangoon’s Dagon Seikkan Township have been declared illegal squatters and are now facing eviction.
80,000 of Rangoon’s poorest face homelessness after official catagorise their homes in Dagon as illegal squats.
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Settlers from several villages in Rangoon Division’s Hlegu Township, have been forced off the land they are occupying, by authorities cracking down on squatting.
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Squatters in Hlaing Tharyar township in Rangoon are rebuilding their huts alongside the Shwe Lin Pan Industrial Zone. They were previously evicted from the site by the municipal department, but they haven’t been able to find anywhere else to live.
More than 200 homes and businesses were destroyed in a blaze that devastated the village of Katbat in the Irrawaddy delta on Monday morning, leaving about 1,100 people homeless.
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Rangoon is facing a shortage of suitable housing as more and more foreign investors flock to the country to do business.
Burma’s former capital Rangoon is gearing up for major developments with a new zoning proposal that includes a recreational riverside green zone and demarcated heritage zones.
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South Korean KDB Daewoo Securities has announced that it will invest nearly US$200 million in construction in Burma’s former capital Rangoon.