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Day: July 20, 2015
New development bank to lift tourism sector
The tourism industry will get a boost with the establishment of a tourism development bank, according to the Myanmar Tourism Bank.
VIDEO: Secretariat opening gives glimpse of history
Through the cracks and the keyholes, visitors peak into a room where 68 years ago Burma’s fate was written.
Activists, academics seek to run for NLD
Several well-known faces from Burma’s political and academic communities have flocked to the opposition National League for Democracy over the weekend.
Floods, mud, govt preventing aid to Kachin IDPs, says church
Hundreds of refugees in northern Kachin State are not receiving humanitarian aid, according to the Kachin Baptist Council (KBC).
Thai PM urged to intervene in case against British activist
Andy Hall, a British activist who campaigns for the rights of Burmese migrant workers in Thailand, faces final hearing in defamation suit on Monday.