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• Five beaten over Pyin Oo Lwin land dispute
• Census collection to end without Kachin, Rakhine communities
• Rakhine civil society forms groups to monitor INGO activities
• Thousands greet NLD leader in capital for petition campaign launch
• Draft religious conversion bill released
• Bus crash prompts unprecedented response – but will it improve safety?
• Visit a tentative step in Japan-Myanmar military relations

Five beaten over Pyin Oo Lwin land dispute Posted: 27 May 2014 09:30 PM PDT Four men from Pyin Oo Lwin are recovering in hospital after they and another person were beaten and tied up in an attack that police believe is linked to a land dispute in the area.

Census collection to end without Kachin, Rakhine communities Posted: 27 May 2014 04:35 PM PDT Ministry of Immigration and Population officials have confirmed that "extended" census data collection would officially end this weekend, with populations in Kachin and Rakhine states that were left out of the original count almost certain to miss out again.

Rakhine civil society forms groups to monitor INGO activities Posted: 27 May 2014 03:34 PM PDT Rakhine civil society groups have formed a committee to scrutinise the activities of foreign humanitarian operations in Sittwe, activists say.

Thousands greet NLD leader in capital for petition campaign launch Posted: 27 May 2014 03:27 PM PDT Daw Aung San Suu Kyi brought her calls for constitutional change to the nation's capital, launching a petition campaign in Nay Pyi Taw that will push for an amendment to section 436.

Draft religious conversion bill released Posted: 27 May 2014 01:49 PM PDT Myanmar is considering restrictions on religious conversion, according to a draft bill released in state media on May 27, the first of several controversial proposals stemming from a rising tide of Buddhist nationalism.

Bus crash prompts unprecedented response – but will it improve safety? Posted: 27 May 2014 01:31 PM PDT On May 12 a bus lurched out of Nay Pyi Taw at around 6:30pm under an early monsoon season downpour and pulled onto the Yangon-Mandalay Highway.

Visit a tentative step in Japan-Myanmar military relations Posted: 27 May 2014 01:05 PM PDT The Japanese military's top officer held meetings with his Myanmar counterpart on May 27, officials said, the first visit of Japan's highest-ranking army officer to the country since World War II.

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