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Myanmar frees political prisoners before president goes to US
ReutersYANGON, May 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's government has freed 23 political prisoners, a senior interior ministry official said on Friday, the day President Thein Sein was due to leave for a landmark visit to the United States. The official declined to be...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Prisoners and Detainees, Prisons, Thein Sein, Politics
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Patriarch to Seattle's Burmese community dies
Seattle TimesSaw Aung Khin, one of the first Burmese immigrants to move to the Seattle area and regarded by many in the community as its patriarch, has died. He was 79. Known as Grandpa to many ethnic Karen refugees from Burma living in the Seattle area, Mr. Khin,...Tags: Baptist, Refugee, Lobbying, Religion and Belief, Media Industry
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In Myanmar, cheap SIM card draw may herald telecoms revolution
ReutersBy Jared Ferrie YANGON, April 25 (Reuters) - Introduced a decade and a half ago under Myanmar's former military rulers, SIM cards sold for as much as $7,000 apiece. Today, they still cost more than $200. From Thursday, lucky winners of a lottery-style...Tags: Joint Ventures, Financial and Business Services, Crime, Law and Justice, Vodafone Group Plc, China
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Myanmar officials blame electrical problems for mosque fire
Electrical problems were to blame for a fire that reportedly killed 13 children at a mosque and religious school in Myanmar, authorities said Tuesday, even as the blaze stirred up suspicions of an attack on Muslims. Yangon regional fire chief Kyi Win...
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Myanmar's once-proud film industry a flicker of its former self
YANGON, Myanmar — Down a back road in northern Yangon, a sagging teak house fights back the jungle. On the gate, barely noticeable under the weeds, rusty ironwork spells out "A1 Film." Myanmar's first movie studio, once known as the Burma Film Co....
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Myanmar on edge after new eruption of interreligious violence
As the Myanmar government urged calm, Muslim shops reportedly sat shuttered Monday in the capital of Yangon, a sign of continued unease after the re-eruption of deadly religious violence in the country. Riots in the central city of Meiktila,...
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Myanmar ends year of firsts with another: a public countdown
To end a year charged with change, Myanmar enjoyed yet another first: a public countdown to the New Year. Such gatherings were heavily restricted under the military government that once ruled Myanmar, also known as Burma. But as the country emerges...
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The spirit moves her: Milla Hniang's journey to a dream
What people go through to live their lives — war and terror, disease and pain, poverty and hunger, long journeys across continents and oceans, loss and heartbreak — always leaves me awed and humbled. You hear a story, like the one I'm offering...Tags: Faith Hill, Preventative Medicine, Hospitals and Clinics, Taylor Swift, Alan Jackson
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Myanmar stops censoring articles before they go to print
World NowJournalists in Myanmar will no longer have to send their articles to a censorship board to be scrubbed of anything critical or sensitive before publication, a landmark step announced Monday toward lifting restrictions on the press. But reporters in the... -
112 killed, homes burned as Buddhists, Muslims clash in Myanmar
World NowYANGON, Myanmar -- At least 112 people have been killed and thousands of houses burned as ethnic and religious violence in western Myanmar intensifies, according to news reports and community activists, as the government struggled to restore order,... -
Fresh clashes break out between Myanmar's Buddhists, Muslims
World NowAt least three people were killed and hundreds of houses burned in a fresh wave of violence pitting Buddhists against Muslims in western Myanmar, news agencies reported Tuesday.... -
President Obama Makes Historic Visit to Myanmar
CNNPhnom Penh, Cambodia -- Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday, praising the courage of fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi while also providing a symbolic nod to initial reforms in a nation once...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Entertainment Events, Crime, Law and Justice, United Nations, Politics
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