A taxi driver accused of the high profile rape and murder of young women in Rangoon was handed the death penalty.
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Rangoon has highest rate of dengue fever in Burma
Four persons have died and more than 600 cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever reported so far this year in Rangoon Division.
Business weekly 10 July
This week in business: Dagon City development scrapped; Myanmar National Airlines launch first international flight; Dawei SEZ finally gets green light.
Latpadaung activists’ court hearing postponed
A court hearing for Latpadaung activists Naw Ohn Hla, Nay Myo Zin, Sein Htay and Tin Htut Paing was postponed on Tuesday on the grounds that not all defendants were…
Forced evictions to continue in Dagon
80,000 of Rangoon’s poorest face homelessness after official catagorise their homes in Dagon as illegal squats.
Ex-Rangoon mayor offers help to farmers
Aung Thein Lin, former Mayor of Rangoon told farmers he would help them in land confiscation case with a big hotel group reportedly attempting to seize 200 acres