Additional sentences for Latpadaung activists
Five activists previously sentenced to prison after a protest Rangoon last year, are sentenced to four months each in prison by the Ahlone township court.
Five activists previously sentenced to prison after a protest Rangoon last year, are sentenced to four months each in prison by the Ahlone township court.
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Two years after a brutal police crackdown against protesters at the Latpadaung copper mine site, Amnesty Int’l has issued a press release highlighting ongoing problems with the project.
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Three Burmese migrants injured in a coal mine blast in Malaysia’s Sarawak State have been carried by helicopter to another hospital and their condition is improving.
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Lead Story Natural resources News
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.
Once again, tensions peak at the Latpadaung mining project after officials begin to fence off farmland that falls within the project zone.
Prominent dissident Nyi Nyi Lwin, who spearheaded the monk-led protests in 2007, was released on bail Monday after being arrested by police earlier this month.
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The government today defended its bloody crackdown on hundreds of peaceful activists near a Chinese-backed copper mine, as in accordance with “democratic principles” and the “rule of law”
All victims were Chinese workers operating a mine in Burma’s northern Kachin state, close to the border with Yunnan province
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