Bullet Points: Bringing you the news for Thursday 10 July.
Day: July 10, 2014
Journalists sentenced to 10 years for revealing 'state secrets'
Five employees of the now-defunct Unity Weekly journal have each been sentenced to ten years in prison with hard labour after being convicted of revealing state secrets.
Burmese maids in Singapore need more protection, migrant worker group says
The Singaporean and Burmese government must do more to ensure that domestic workers do not face abusive conditions, a migrant worker advocacy group said.
Ethnic Karen sentenced to 10 years for Taungoo bombing
Court sentences man to ten years for the 2013 bombing of a guesthouse which left two dead.
Mandalay’s parliament discusses tattoos of Burma’s map
Mandalay Division’s parliament convened an emergency session on Tuesday to discuss how individuals who have tattooed the map of Burma on the lower part of the body should be punished,…