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• Military firm wins arbitration battle with Fraser & Neave
• Military rejects factory privatisation calls
• Ma Ba Tha plots national marriage bill campaign
• Women applicants flood president’s scholarship program
• President orders investigation into journalist’s death
• WFP signals cut to IDP rice rations
• Winter is coming, tempered by El Niño

Military firm wins arbitration battle with Fraser & Neave Posted: 31 Oct 2014 01:28 AM PDT Myanma Economic Holdings Limited has won a dispute over the ownership of Myanmar Brewery Limited, the military-owned conglomerate has announced, and will now accelerate plans to buy out its joint venture partner.

Military rejects factory privatisation calls Posted: 30 Oct 2014 08:19 PM PDT The Ministry of Defence has rejected suggestions from MPs that it privatise factories producing everything from biscuits to furniture, arguing that they help to keep government spending down and create job opportunities.

Ma Ba Tha plots national marriage bill campaign Posted: 30 Oct 2014 08:14 PM PDT People across the country will take to the streets in favour of a controversial bill that could force people to change their religion, senior Buddhist clerics have warned.

Women applicants flood president’s scholarship program Posted: 30 Oct 2014 07:22 PM PDT Women could be set to dominate the upper reaches of the country's future civil service as female candidates for prestigious scholarships outnumber male candidates by five to one.

President orders investigation into journalist’s death Posted: 30 Oct 2014 07:13 PM PDT President U Thein Sein has ordered the human rights commission to investigate the death of a journalist who was killed while in military custody in early October.

WFP signals cut to IDP rice rations Posted: 30 Oct 2014 06:57 PM PDT The World Food Programme has warned a cash shortfall means it may be forced to slash rice rations by a fifth to 200,000 vulnerable displaced people in Myanmar, including Rohingya Muslims in desperate camps in Rakhine state.

Winter is coming, tempered by El Niño Posted: 30 Oct 2014 06:24 PM PDT The return of El Niño conditions is likely to bring rain and warmer than average temperatures over the coming months, says latest forecast from the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology.

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