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• Pilot census lays groundwork for citizenship verification in Rakhine
• Bangkok brothel raid reveals underage Myanmar sex workers
• KNO urges Pakistan to stop selling fighter jets to Myanmar
• Magwe Sayadaw resigns from nationalist monk association
• Jetty construction near Botahtaung Pagoda suspended
• MHRC pleads on behalf of Myanmar murder suspects
• CSOs discuss nationwide land policy for refugees
• In an unregulated industry, domestic workers fall prey to human traffickers
• Heavy rain expected this week
• Hospital owners cleared in pornography case

Pilot census lays groundwork for citizenship verification in Rakhine Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT Rakhine State immigration officials have launched a pilot project to verify the citizenship of residents in three Muslim-majority townships.

Bangkok brothel raid reveals underage Myanmar sex workers Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT A raid on a large Bangkok brothel notorious for its "soapy massages" has found underage sex workers from Myanmar and logbooks detailing big kickbacks to corrupt cops and officials, investigators said yesterday.

KNO urges Pakistan to stop selling fighter jets to Myanmar Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT The Kachin National Organisation has urged Pakistan to stop selling fighter jets to the military, which it said could use the aircraft in fighting against ethnic armed groups.

Magwe Sayadaw resigns from nationalist monk association Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT A leading nationalist cleric has resigned from the Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, known by its Myanmar-language acronym Ma Ba Tha, which he helped to found. U Parmaukkha, also known as Magwe Sayadaw, resigned after unexpectedly not attending a conference on June 4-5 marking the organisation's third anniversary.

Jetty construction near Botahtaung Pagoda suspended Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT Parliament has suspended the construction of a jetty near Botahtaung Pagoda in Yangon, which had already been approved by the Myanmar Investment Commission.

MHRC pleads on behalf of Myanmar murder suspects Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has urged its Thai counterpart to help four Myanmar migrant workers accused of murder. They have asked that the Thai human rights body try to protect the accused from being tortured by Thai police.

CSOs discuss nationwide land policy for refugees Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT For the first time, civil society organisations yesterday addressed land restitution for IDPs and refugees on a national level, rather than on a per-state basis.

In an unregulated industry, domestic workers fall prey to human traffickers Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT Van Biak had only been away from her family in Leilet, Chin State, for two weeks, but her mother was in tears as they embraced. Van Biak and her older sister Van Hnem left to find work as maids in Singapore with few job opportunities in their remote village in Chin State, one of the poorest regions of Myanmar where 73 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

Heavy rain expected this week Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT Here it comes. The full strength of the monsoon will be visited on Yangon and other parts of the country starting this week, with thunderstorms and heavy rain forecast for the period June 8 to 13.

Hospital owners cleared in pornography case Posted: 08 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT The owners of a hospital accused of providing unlicensed treatment at a private clinic and distributing pornography has been cleared.

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