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• Air Mandalay returns as charter carrier
• Speaker slams ‘lying’ over reason for ferry sinking
• Student activists go into hiding after crackdown
• Call for repeal of law enabling ‘midnight’ arrests
• Slow steps towards ceasefire
• Father Land customers pack out court for owner’s trial
• NLD to help expelled members get citizenship
• Constitutional change: Still time to clear up the mess?
• KBC requests foreign help for investigation
• Voting in Wa, Kokang and Mong La in doubt

Air Mandalay returns as charter carrier Posted: 20 Mar 2015 02:11 PM PDT Air Mandalay, which suspended operations last December, is to resume flying as a charter operator, its CEO announced yesterday.

Speaker slams ‘lying’ over reason for ferry sinking Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:34 PM PDT Parliamentary speaker Thura U Shwe Mann yesterday sharply criticised "lying" explanations of the loss of the ferry Aung Takon 3 on March 13.

Student activists go into hiding after crackdown Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:30 PM PDT Dozens of activists from the All Burma Federation of Student Unions have gone into hiding after last week's violent crackdown on their anti-education law protests, which police followed up with raids on houses in Yangon.

Call for repeal of law enabling ‘midnight’ arrests Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:26 PM PDT In the early hours of March 13, three days after police rounded up student protesters in Letpadan, four members of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) were visiting the house of a friend in Yangon's Ahlone township.

Slow steps towards ceasefire Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:25 PM PDT Talks on ending decades of conflict with a national ceasefire agreement have moved ahead this week but delegates cautioned yesterday in Yangon that no deal could be signed during the current round and it was doubtful that a political dialogue between the government and warring ethnic groups would begin this year.

Father Land customers pack out court for owner’s trial Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:20 PM PDT Victims of the alleged fraudster U Kyaw Myint, the former owner of Father Land Construction, packed Latha Township Court in downtown Yangon yesterday as the defendant appeared.

NLD to help expelled members get citizenship Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:18 PM PDT The National League for Democracy has been forced to expel more than 8000 members who hold associate or temporary citizenship, but says it will help them get full citizenship if they are eligible so they can rejoin the party.

Constitutional change: Still time to clear up the mess? Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:12 PM PDT With the UEC casting doubt on a referendum and six-way talks on hold, the window for change is narrowing.

KBC requests foreign help for investigation Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:12 PM PDT The Kachin Baptist Convention has asked the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States to participate in the investigation of the rape and murder of two female volunteer teachers last January.

Voting in Wa, Kokang and Mong La in doubt Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:11 PM PDT Voter registration is not being carried out in areas of Shan State deemed to be insecure, and voting may not take place in those areas in November.

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