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• ‘If you want clean water, don’t stir up the dirt’
• No comment as NLD chief returns from China
• Fighting persists in Kokang despite rebels’ ceasefire offer
• Anti-UN banners dropped from Rakhine State protests
• New travel law to give region governments more power
• Ministry of Health takes steps to avert MERS spread

‘If you want clean water, don’t stir up the dirt’ Posted: 14 Jun 2015 08:51 PM PDT U Tin Aye, chair of the Union Election Commission and a retired lieutenant general, talks to chief political correspondent Ei Ei Toe Lwin about the forthcoming elections – on his hopes that people will vote with their heads not hearts, why he does not see the right person to reform the country, how the Tatmadaw must accept the results of the vote, and on his life-long attachment to his military uniform.

No comment as NLD chief returns from China Posted: 14 Jun 2015 08:46 PM PDT Daw Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Yangon yesterday following her first visit to China, including talks with President Xi Jinping.

Fighting persists in Kokang despite rebels’ ceasefire offer Posted: 14 Jun 2015 08:44 PM PDT Fighting persisted in the Kokang border region over the weekend despite a unilateral ceasefire declared by ethnic Chinese rebels, with little sign so far that Myanmar intends to heed China's calls on both sides to negotiate a settlement.

Anti-UN banners dropped from Rakhine State protests Posted: 14 Jun 2015 08:31 PM PDT Thousands protests in nine townships, with largest demonstration held in state capital Sittwe amid heavy rain.

New travel law to give region governments more power Posted: 14 Jun 2015 08:29 PM PDT A new tourism law is to be submitted to parliament later this year, the government says.

Ministry of Health takes steps to avert MERS spread Posted: 14 Jun 2015 08:27 PM PDT As the death toll of the virus MERS-CoV edges toward 500, Myanmar health authorities have been tightening up their border procedures to protect the country from infection.

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