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• Workers issue threat to government over arrests
• Our vision for peace
• Unknown group breaks up protest in Hmawbi
• Air strikes fail to dislodge Kokang troops
• Chief minister defends protest response
• Expelled members of NLD issued new ID cards
• Fifteen receive death sentence
• Lawyers try again to file suit over hotel project
• ‘Extinct’ songbird rediscovered in Yangon
• Ministry orders name change for new prisoners committee

Workers issue threat to government over arrests Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:30 PM PDT Strikers float plan to link up with students, farmers and monks after crackdown

Our vision for peace Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:29 PM PDT Use the word reconciliation and a single person will often spring to mind: Nelson R Mandela, who served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

Unknown group breaks up protest in Hmawbi Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:28 PM PDT At least three protests have been disrupted by groups of plainclothes men PLAINCLOTHES men reportedly harassed student protesters and broke up an education reform demonstration in the rural outskirts of Yangon yesterday, one of several such incidents to occur over the past week.

Air strikes fail to dislodge Kokang troops Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:27 PM PDT Government forces using air strikes have retaken territory in the Kokang area close to the border with China, although ethnic Chinese rebels said yesterday they were still inside Myanmar territory.

Chief minister defends protest response Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:26 PM PDT Yangon Region Chief Minister U Myint Swe defended the use of paramilitary groups to break up a pro-student demonstration in front of City Hall last week during a meeting with 88 Generation activists, who have described the thuggish tactics as a "black mark" on the government.

Expelled members of NLD issued new ID cards Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:25 PM PDT Thanks to a fast-track immigration project, 33 National League for Democracy members expelled from the party last October because of questions about their citizenship have now received ID cards confirming their status. The cards were presented at a March 3 ceremony at the administration office in Mawlamyine's Thiri Myine ward.

Fifteen receive death sentence Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:24 PM PDT Fifteen men have been sentenced to death for murdering a man in a brawl in a liquor shop in North Okkalapa township in 2011.

Lawyers try again to file suit over hotel project Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:23 PM PDT Attempts by a lawyers' organisation to block the conversion of a historic Yangon colonial-era building into a five-star hotel continued yesterday as Myanmar Lawyers' Network submitted a petition to sue the chief minister of Yangon Region government, Myanmar Investment Commission and two private companies.

‘Extinct’ songbird rediscovered in Yangon Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:22 PM PDT Conservationists have rediscovered a small songbird in Myanmar that for decades was presumed to be extinct.

Ministry orders name change for new prisoners committee Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:21 PM PDT Members left confused by government decision to rename committee after its disbanded predecessor

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