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• Sangha committee rules on 70 monastery ownership disputes
• Pilgrims peeved at pagoda party antics
• Angry farmers demand return of seized land
• Interfaith marriage push met with opposition
• Taxi drivers threaten law suit over CNG
• New bird sightings at Inle, Indawgyi lakes

Sangha committee rules on 70 monastery ownership disputes Posted: 24 Jun 2014 04:28 PM PDT The raid on Mahasantisukha Monastery on June 10 has thrust the decision-making of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee in the spotlight.

Pilgrims peeved at pagoda party antics Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:12 PM PDT Pyin Oo Lwin residents are calling for action to be taken against a group of drunken men who allegedly verbally abused female pilgrims and fished in a lake inside a "Buddha garden" near Shwe Myin Tin Pagoda.

Angry farmers demand return of seized land Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:26 PM PDT Farmers and land rights activists in Pyin Oo Lwin are calling on the government to speed up a program to return confiscated but unused land to its original owners.

Interfaith marriage push met with opposition Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:15 PM PDT Proposals by radical Buddhist monks to criminalise inter-faith marriage in Myanmar face strong opposition from women's rights groups in a tussle over the nation's religious identity that has sparked international alarm.

Taxi drivers threaten law suit over CNG Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:14 PM PDT A group of taxi drivers have threatened to sue the Ministry of Energy unless it gives them permission to install compressed natural gas, or CNG, in their cars.

New bird sightings at Inle, Indawgyi lakes Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:21 PM PDT About 50 bird species were recorded for the first time at Inle Lake Wildlife Sanctuary in 2013-14, its administrator has reported.

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