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- Budget concerns cripple pension expansion
- Luck of the draw raises ire of market vendors
- Ananda restoration reveals hidden murals at Bagan
- Trafficked Rohingya die in Thailand
- Two more protesters charged at Letpadaung
| Budget concerns cripple pension expansion Posted: 14 Jan 2015 08:29 PM PST A plan to pay a monthly pension to the elderly may initially be restricted to people aged over 100 – because there is not enough money in the budget to pay everyone over 65, as the government had initially proposed. |
| Luck of the draw raises ire of market vendors Posted: 14 Jan 2015 08:21 PM PST Stallholders in the old Thiri Yadanar Sanpya Market in Mandalay Region's Pyin Oo Lwin township say they are prepared to demonstrate against a plan that would deny many of them places in the new market – unless they win a lottery. |
| Ananda restoration reveals hidden murals at Bagan Posted: 14 Jan 2015 07:34 PM PST Painstaking work to strip off layers of lime to reveal ancient murals is proceeding at Bagan's Ananda Temple, halfway into a six-year project being undertaken by the Myanmar and Indian governments. |
| Trafficked Rohingya die in Thailand Posted: 14 Jan 2015 06:28 PM PST Two more Rohingya migrants have died in southern Thailand after trucks packed with dozens of members of the Myanmar Muslim minority group were intercepted by authorities, police said on Wednesday. |
| Two more protesters charged at Letpadaung Posted: 14 Jan 2015 05:32 PM PST Two more protesters opposed to a China-backed copper mine venture in Myanmar have been charged with offences that could see them jailed for up to five years, a lawyer said on Tuesday. |
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