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• Editorial: Pay rises can wait
• Negotiators seek to break impasse on military affairs
• Pay hike plan delays budget bill approval
• Peace teams agree to break as clashes reported in Kachin, Shan
• Ferry death toll increases as parliament demands inquiry
• Parliament to begin debate on education law changes
• ‘People can challenge the mechanisms of oppression’
• ‘Five years ago, people were afraid of politics’
• VOXPOP: March of reconciliation
• When words are hard to say, actions may speak louder

Editorial: Pay rises can wait Posted: 22 Mar 2015 09:05 PM PDT On March 20, the deputy minister for finance discussed the government's proposal to increase salaries in parliament.

Negotiators seek to break impasse on military affairs Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:54 PM PDT Wrangling over key military issues has long threatened to block a nationwide ceasefire agreement with Myanmar's various ethnic groups, a key plank of the government's reform program.

Pay hike plan delays budget bill approval Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:53 PM PDT Parliamentarians have ordered the government to submit a more detailed proposal for civil servant salary increases by today if it wants them to be included in this year's budget bill.

Peace teams agree to break as clashes reported in Kachin, Shan Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:51 PM PDT After six days of chipping away differences over the elusive nationwide ceasefire agreement draft, government and armed ethnic group negotiators yesterday decided to take a breather until the end of the month when they will seek to tie up remaining loose ends.

Ferry death toll increases as parliament demands inquiry Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:49 PM PDT As volunteer searchers found the bodies of six more victims of the Aung Takon 3 ferry disaster over the weekend, the Amyotha Hluttaw agreed to set up a Union-level inquiry into the sinking.

Parliament to begin debate on education law changes Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:48 PM PDT Changes to the controversial national education law that has sparked student protests are to move to the upper house of parliament for debate, with MPs given until late today to register their participation.

‘People can challenge the mechanisms of oppression’ Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:37 PM PDT Democratic Voice of Burma, or DVB, began in 1992 when exiles in Norway began transmitting news and information back home by radio and shortwave into Myanmar. DVB is now based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from which U Khin Maung Soe spoke to Myanmar Times senior reporter Nyan Lynn Aung.

‘Five years ago, people were afraid of politics’ Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:35 PM PDT In a frank and wide-ranging interview, Sai Aik Paung – chair of the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (also known as Kyar-Phyu, or White Tiger) – talks to Myanmar Times reporter Lun Min Mang.

VOXPOP: March of reconciliation Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:34 PM PDT Teacher who requested anonymity (Falam, Chin State) - Over the past four years we have gained some more freedom to express ourselves publicly.

When words are hard to say, actions may speak louder Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:33 PM PDT In this exclusively translated extract from his book Pyan-Le-Yin-Gyar-Sait-Ye Hnit Myanma Naing Ngan Ye Atway Amyin (Reconciliation and political views), Min Ba Htoo – a retired Union minister writing under a pen name – ponders the mechanisms of reconciliation.

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