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- Students expected to resume protests today
- Rakhine chief takes tough line on UN request to move IDPs
- YCDC election commission calls for full voting rights
- Government reveals detail on planned pay rises
- Minister faces land-grab accusations
- Education ministry blacklists contractors
- Rights group to submit land grabs to ICC
- Bus lines, passengers seek to beat the Thingyan touts
- EU-backed police media unit delayed
- Warship to bring home detained migrants
| Students expected to resume protests today Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:16 PM PDT
Student activists – including some recently freed from jail – will head back to the picket lines today to join a four-city demonstration demanding the release of those detained at Letpadan on March 10. |
| Rakhine chief takes tough line on UN request to move IDPs Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:11 PM PDT
Chief Minister U Maung Maung Ohn says displaced Muslims can move to safer ground ahead of monsoon season if they agree to undergo citizenship verification. |
| YCDC election commission calls for full voting rights Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:05 PM PDT
An election commission report into Yangon's heavily criticised municipal election in December has recommended scrapping the one-vote-per-household rule and allowing all adults over the age of 18 to cast a ballot, commission head U Tin Aye said yesterday. |
| Government reveals detail on planned pay rises Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:04 PM PDT Bowing to demands from parliament, the government has spelled out in detail its plans to raise the pay of civil servants and military personnel. |
| Minister faces land-grab accusations Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:02 PM PDT Minister for Agriculture U Myint Hlaing has been embroiled in allegations that he oversaw the confiscation of thousands of acres of land while military commander in northeastern Shan State. |
| Education ministry blacklists contractors Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:01 PM PDT Building contractors who perform shoddy work and fall below standards while building schools will face a crackdown from the education ministry, MPs have been told. |
| Rights group to submit land grabs to ICC Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:00 PM PDT Myanmar's long-standing land-grab issue is now to receive international exposure, as human rights activists prepare to file a specimen case with the International Criminal Court as a crime against humanity. |
| Bus lines, passengers seek to beat the Thingyan touts Posted: 26 Mar 2015 07:56 PM PDT
Bus lines have joined highway authorities in a clampdown on ticket touts. |
| EU-backed police media unit delayed Posted: 26 Mar 2015 07:48 PM PDT
Police say lack of expertise means they have not been able to implement plans. |
| Warship to bring home detained migrants Posted: 26 Mar 2015 07:48 PM PDT A Myanmar warship has returned from an expo in Malaysia with an unusual cargo: 102 undocumented Myanmar migrants. |
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