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    DVB’s ‘City of Joy’ wins Best News Broadcast award
    May 4, 2017in Lead Story, Media, News137by DVB
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    DVB’s ‘City of Joy’ wins Best News Broadcast award

    According to the MJA, the documentary about squatters in Rangoon was chosen for its “thought-provoking presentation” of issues that are all too often hidden from or forgotten by the general…

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    Debt, health and education woes bedevil Rangoon’s urban poor
    December 19, 2016in Lead Story, News, Rangoon74by LIBBY HOGAN / DVB
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    Debt, health and education woes bedevil Rangoon’s urban poor

    Many among Rangoon’s urban poor are being forced to rely on high-interest loans to survive, a new report by Save the Children has found.

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    INTERVIEW: Burma to push for rural development, equality, says minister-elect
    March 23, 2016in Lead Story, News, Politics198by REUTERS
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    INTERVIEW: Burma to push for rural development, equality, says minister-elect

    Burma’s first freely elected cabinet in more than half a century will focus on income equality, rural development and boosting budget revenue, the finance minister-elect said in his first interview…

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    February 26, 2016in Lead Story, News, Video462by DVB
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    DVB Roadshow: Burma's Lost Boys

    At a school renown for discipline and training, former street kids are attempting to get their lives back on track.

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    Squatter eviction highlights Suu Kyi's military challenge
    February 12, 2016in Lead Story, News168by REUTERS
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    Squatter eviction highlights Suu Kyi's military challenge

    Days before democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi led her lawmakers into parliament as Burma’s government-in-waiting, Ei Than watched bulldozers sent by the military destroy her house in a slum…

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    February 2, 2015in Interview International, Lead Story, News, Video116by DVB
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    DVB talks to World Bank's new Burma chief, Abdoulaye Seck

    DVB Interview International’s Alex Bookbinder sits down with Burma chief Abdoulaye Seck, to discuss how the World Bank has progressed since its 2012 reengagement with the Burmese government.

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