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    Day: September 22, 2016

    September 22, 2016in Bullet Points, Lead Story, News85by DVB
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    DVB Bulletin: 22 September 2016

    Watch DVB’s top stories with Kimberley Phillips

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    Burma ratifies CTBT, 20 years after signing treaty
    September 22, 2016in Foreign Affairs, International Relations, Lead Story, News65by DVB
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    Burma ratifies CTBT, 20 years after signing treaty

    Burma and the southern African nation of Swaziland on Wednesday became the latest countries to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

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    Shan, Ta’ang friendships strained over ethnic conflict
    September 22, 2016in Lead Story, News, Shan513by MIN SIT YE NAING / DVB
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    Shan, Ta’ang friendships strained over ethnic conflict

    Kyaukme has been for many years a peaceful town, its ethnic Shan and Ta’ang residents co-existing in relative harmony. But armed conflict is threatening to tear the communities apart.

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    A sordid case of enslavement and torture at a Rangoon tailor shop
    September 22, 2016in Labour Issues, Lead Story, News, Rangoon474by DVB
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    A sordid case of enslavement and torture at a Rangoon tailor shop

    The four detained suspects are all members of one family that operated the Ava Tailors garment shop in the heart of Rangoon’s old colonial quarter.

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    Microsoft unveils country office in Rangoon
    September 22, 2016in Archives, Lead Story, News223by DVB
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    Microsoft unveils country office in Rangoon

    Leading software maker Microsoft opens an office in Rangoon, hoping to expand its presence in a country with one of the highest rates of smartphone penetration in the region.

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    Suu Kyi defends stance on Rohingya in UN address
    September 22, 2016in Foreign Affairs, International Relations, Lead Story, News, Rohingya122by REUTERS
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    Suu Kyi defends stance on Rohingya in UN address

    In her first address to the UN General Assembly as national leader, Aung San Suu Kyi defended her government’s efforts to resolve a crisis over treatment of the country’s Muslim…

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