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• Emergency ambulances to make ‘death highway’ less lethal
• No easy break for Yangon’s bus system
• GPS units monitor speeds on notorious highway
• Mrauk-U conservation seen as reconstructing not preserving
• Government criticised on religious conflict at conference
• Wanted men nabbed in Shwe Pyi Thar gunfight
• Prominent monk goes missing
• General and NLD leader talk transition
• Blackwood pardoned but Myanmar co-workers still detained: monitoring groups
• Jailed student activists facing health crisis

Emergency ambulances to make ‘death highway’ less lethal Posted: 26 Jan 2016 01:15 AM PST Myanmar's notorious "death highway" might become a little less deadly as plans go forward to set up an emergency ambulance service along the route. Hospitals along the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay Highway are taking part in the scheme.

No easy break for Yangon’s bus system Posted: 26 Jan 2016 01:12 AM PST A litany of woes besets Yangon's buses, say owners and observers, and the situation is likely to get worse. Falling income, rising costs, staff shortages, police crackdowns, restrictions on fuel access, an ageing fleet and all-day congestion are conspiring to make bus travel in Myanmar's largest city even worse.

GPS units monitor speeds on notorious highway Posted: 26 Jan 2016 01:10 AM PST Despite resistance from some owners, buses and trucks using the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay Highway are increasingly using GPS products to monitor speed and alert police to possible safety problems.

Mrauk-U conservation seen as reconstructing not preserving Posted: 26 Jan 2016 01:01 AM PST Heritage zones in Mrauk-U, Rakhine State, are under threat due to renovations that have altered the designs of ancient pagodas, the Mrauk-U Heritage Trust claims.

Government criticised on religious conflict at conference Posted: 26 Jan 2016 12:57 AM PST Participants at a world peace conference attended by President U Thein Sein slammed Myanmar for being "weak" on responding to religious conflict.

Wanted men nabbed in Shwe Pyi Thar gunfight Posted: 26 Jan 2016 12:55 AM PST Armed police battled with two heavily armed suspects, one an escaped prisoner, in Shwe Pyi Thar township on January 24, blasting the upstairs windows of a house in Cherry Street with pump-action shotguns and a .38 revolver. The two knife-wielding suspects surrendered.

Prominent monk goes missing Posted: 26 Jan 2016 12:51 AM PST A prominent monk and leading member of the nationalist group Ma Ba Tha has gone missing, followers say. U Pamaukkha, better known as Magwe Sayadaw, has been missing for two days, since the morning of January 24. His last contact was by phone, at midnight on January 23.

General and NLD leader talk transition Posted: 26 Jan 2016 12:46 AM PST Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and close aides yesterday met a military delegation led by the Tatmadaw's commander-in-chief to discuss the transition to a new government just one week before parliament convenes to start the process of electing the next president.

Blackwood pardoned but Myanmar co-workers still detained: monitoring groups Posted: 26 Jan 2016 12:28 AM PST Phil Blackwood, a New Zealand bar manager convicted of insulting religion in a high-profile case last year, was quietly released from Insein Prison on January 22, but Myanmar colleagues have not been freed and were not pardoned.

Jailed student activists facing health crisis Posted: 26 Jan 2016 12:26 AM PST More than 20 student activists held in prison during a slow-moving trial since a brutal police crackdown on their protests are suffering from severe ill health, including life-threatening diseases in some cases, according to a report released yesterday.

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