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• Youths missing since New Year
• USDP denies axing Speaker’s faction
• Immunity bill hits snags
• ‘Irrawaddy’ suspends Myanmar print edition, goes all-digital
• Workers demand jail time for habitually offending employers
• Teenage vigilante shot dead while clearing poppy fields in Kachin State
• Ma Ba Tha continues to lead charge against Thai verdict
• Lawyers vow greater independence for new bar association
• Earthquake awareness needed: experts

Youths missing since New Year Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Ethnic armed groups or militia may have abducted 15 young men and women who went missing in late December, local residents fear. The men, from the Shan and Ta'ang communities in Nant Onn village, Muse township, Shan State, had gone out celebrating the Shan New Year on December 28 and 29.

USDP denies axing Speaker’s faction Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Union Solidarity and Development Party members have been quick to deny suggestions that the party's splintering intensified last week into a sudden firing of at least a dozen senior officials.

Immunity bill hits snags Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST A controversial bill that would grant presidents lifelong immunity is getting mired in legislative drudgery, according to MPs.

‘Irrawaddy’ suspends Myanmar print edition, goes all-digital Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST The Irrawaddy is eschewing print completely. Based on financial decisions, editors said the media organisation will be trimming its remaining publication, a weekly Myanmar-language edition.

Workers demand jail time for habitually offending employers Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Over 1500 factory workers marched through Yangon's industrial outer ring this weekend demanding legal revisions that could see employers imprisoned for labour abuses.

Teenage vigilante shot dead while clearing poppy fields in Kachin State Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST A nineteen-year-old community activist working for a Christian anti-drugs organisation has been shot dead by a suspected sniper while taking part in the eradication of poppy fields in Kachin State.

Ma Ba Tha continues to lead charge against Thai verdict Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Hard-line Buddhist monks and their supporters again took to the streets yesterday to protest the conviction of the two Myanmar migrant workers condemned to death for murder and rape on Koh Tao island in Thailand.

Lawyers vow greater independence for new bar association Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Personal backing from the leader of the incoming government could help advance the aims of Myanmar's first national bar association, say its organisers.

Earthquake awareness needed: experts Posted: 17 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Take the small earthquake of January 12 as a wake-up call, engineers are warning Yangon authorities. The temblor, 4.8 on the Richter scale, scarcely troubled most city residents, though it did turn out the lights for some hours.

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