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    Day: December 28, 2017

    Pulitzer winners add media industry clout to calls for release of Reuters reporters
    December 28, 2017in Lead Story, Media, News374by ANDREW D. KASPAR
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    Pulitzer winners add media industry clout to calls for release of Reuters reporters

    Dozens of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists have joined a growing chorus of voices demanding the release of two Reuters reporters detained by Burmese authorities earlier this month, calling their arrests “an…

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    Nationalist monks sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for anti-government protest
    December 28, 2017in Lead Story, News91by DVB
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    Nationalist monks sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for anti-government protest

    A court in Mandalay’s Chan Myay Thazi Township has sentenced six nationalist monks who led an anti-government sit-in protest in early August to 18 months in prison with hard labour.

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    UN rights investigator calls for pressure on China, Russia over abuses in Burma
    December 28, 2017in Human Rights, International Relations, Lead Story, News485by REUTERS
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    UN rights investigator calls for pressure on China, Russia over abuses in Burma

    The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Burma has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in…

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    Rohingya refugee repatriation to start on 22 January
    December 28, 2017in Lead Story, News, Refugees, Rohingya703by DVB
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    Rohingya refugee repatriation to start on 22 January

    Minister Win Myat Aye said a group of 450 Hindu refugees will be allowed back across the border on 22 January as the first step in the repatriation process.

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    Burma says US sanctioning of general based on ‘unreliable accusations’
    December 28, 2017in International Relations, Lead Story, News499by REUTERS
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    Burma says US sanctioning of general based on ‘unreliable accusations’

    Burma “feels sad” over a US decision to sanction a military general, a government spokesman said, after Washington linked the commander last week to abuses against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

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