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    Arrests and clashes as police evict hundreds from Rangoon slum
    June 13, 2017in Lead Story, News, Rangoon94by REUTERS
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    Arrests and clashes as police evict hundreds from Rangoon slum

    One policeman was injured and at least five people were arrested in clashes on Monday as authorities in Rangoon demolished a shanty town to clear the land for development.

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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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    MNHRC urges inquiry into violent eviction of squatters
    May 13, 2016in Land, Lead Story, News6by NANG MYA NADI / DVB
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    MNHRC urges inquiry into violent eviction of squatters

    The call from the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission comes after squatters say their settlement was destroyed by thugs hired by local authorities in a village in Mon State.

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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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    Squatters cast into the cold
    February 5, 2016in Lead Story, News23by DVB
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    Squatters cast into the cold

    Burma’s national rights watchdog noted this week the destruction of over squatter’s 500 homes in the Mingalardon Pyin Ma Pin Industrial Zone and Yuzana Garden City areas of Rangoon, which…

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    Rangoon’s squatters live in fear of eviction, violence
    September 14, 2015in News, Scholarcorner130by DVB
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    Rangoon’s squatters live in fear of eviction, violence

    Practice English by reading DVB news. Feature stories, written in Easy English (Upper-Int – Advanced) with Burmese definitions and grammar.

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