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    Will Burma's timber ban curb or entrench corruption?
    April 2, 2014in Analysis, Environment, Lead Story, News, Politics196by FELIZ SOLOMON / DVB
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    Will Burma's timber ban curb or entrench corruption?

    While the raw timber export ban is a step towards avoiding a regrettable transformation in one of Burma’s major industries, it may only work in tandem with more reforms that…

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    March 2, 2014in Features, Lead Story, News, Society, Video331by ZAW HTET
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    Life among the logs

    Whole families are working day and night in Rangoon’s logging ports, husking the bark from logs to sell as firewood.

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    Burmese army still holds 10 Mansi villagers captive, says FBR
    February 10, 2014in Conflict, Lead Story, News60by DVB
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    Burmese army still holds 10 Mansi villagers captive, says FBR

    Burma’s government forces are holding 10 local villagers captive and are continuing their attacks in and around the village of Nam Lim Pa in southern Kachin State’s Mansi Township, according…

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    18 Kachin villagers captured by Burmese army in Mansi
    February 2, 2014in Conflict, Lead Story, News179by COLIN HINSHELWOOD / DVB
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    18 Kachin villagers captured by Burmese army in Mansi

    FBR reports that 18 villagers were apprehended in Mansi during an assault on the KIA, but govt says the operation was to arrest illegal loggers.

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    Thai smugglers unlikely to be given pardons in Burma
    December 23, 2013in Lead Story, News, Politics2by THE BANGKOK POST
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    Thai smugglers unlikely to be given pardons in Burma

    The two remaining Thai detainees in the Kawthaung smuggling and trespassing case are hopeful of a presidential pardon, but Burmese authorities are showing no signs of leniency.

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