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    Suu Kyi launches ‘anti-betel chewing’ campaign
    September 12, 2017in Lead Story, News, Society296by DVB
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    Suu Kyi launches ‘anti-betel chewing’ campaign

    Some seven million people in Burma regularly chew betel quid and tobacco – a habit that causes more than 60,000 deaths in the country every year.

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    Uber to hire only govt-approved taxi drivers in Burma
    May 11, 2017in Lead Story, News, Society534by REUTERS
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    Uber to hire only govt-approved taxi drivers in Burma

    This partnership with local taxi drivers and their unions is unique to Burma, Sam Bool, Uber’s expansion general manager for Southeast Asia, told Reuters.

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    14 dead, 150 injured during Thingyan
    April 17, 2017in Lead Story, News, Society712by DVB
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    14 dead, 150 injured during Thingyan

    The data covered the four days of public holiday from 13–16 April, a period renowned for drunken revelry.

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    Transgender beauty queen demands apology for wrongful arrest
    January 23, 2017in Lead Story, News, Society678by EI MA MA MON
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    Transgender beauty queen demands apology for wrongful arrest

    “The fact that I was in jail cannot be washed away in a shower,” said Myo Ko Ko San at today’s press conference.

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    Lifting the lid on child rape
    December 15, 2016in Crime, Lead Story, News, Society, Women's Issues45by LIBBY HOGAN / DVB
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    Lifting the lid on child rape

    The story of a three-year-old in Sagaing Division sheds light on a long-hushed issue in Burma: child rape, reports of which have risen 40 percent this year.

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    Calls for crackdown on child beggars in Mandalay
    September 29, 2016in Lead Story, Mandalay Division, News, Society262by DVB
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    Calls for crackdown on child beggars in Mandalay

    City official acknowledges there has been a marked increase in the number of children begging at junctions and traffic lights around central Mandalay, and said it was down to “economic…

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