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• Myanmar election monitors offer expertise in UK
• Digging deep for lost Spitfires
• Uncertain future for hundreds of thousands as white cards are revoked
• Rakhine State prepares to collect expired white cards
• Draft national ceasefire accord signed to end decades of war
• Law banning violence against women near completion
• Myanmar’s first cardinal strives to be ‘a voice for the voiceless’
• US reiterates support for students
• Report on attack against protesters submitted
• Hospitals wary of emergency cases

Myanmar election monitors offer expertise in UK Posted: 01 Apr 2015 01:11 AM PDT Myanmar election monitors arrive in the United Kingdom to offer their experience in upcoming elections.

Digging deep for lost Spitfires Posted: 01 Apr 2015 01:06 AM PDT Archaeological team eagerly resumes search for British Spitfires interred at Mingalardon airfield.

Uncertain future for hundreds of thousands as white cards are revoked Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:34 PM PDT A presidential order revoking temporary identity papers came into effect last night despite widespread criticism by the international community of the government's move that mostly affects Rohingya Muslims and leaves an estimated 1 million "white card" holders across Myanmar facing an uncertain future.

Rakhine State prepares to collect expired white cards Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:32 PM PDT U Khin Soe, director of the Rakhine State Immigration Department, says leaders of camps for displaced people have agreed to cooperate with local authorities in collecting expired white cards and starting the citizenship application process.

Draft national ceasefire accord signed to end decades of war Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:26 PM PDT The government and representatives of 16 armed ethnic groups yesterday signed a draft ceasefire agreement aimed at ending more than six decades of conflict in some of the world's longest-running civil wars.

Law banning violence against women near completion Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:25 PM PDT A draft law banning violence against women is nearing completion – and could be a rival to four bills promoted by hard-line Buddhist nationalists that international human rights groups have deemed discriminatory and politically motivated.

Myanmar’s first cardinal strives to be ‘a voice for the voiceless’ Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:20 PM PDT When Catholic Archbishop Charles Maung Bo was appointed cardinal by Pope Francis on February 14, there was a collective sense of pride in Myanmar – similar to 1961 when U Thant was made UN secretary general – that one of the country's sons had been elevated to the pinnacle of the international arena.

US reiterates support for students Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:19 PM PDT The United States once again stood behind student protesters in a statement on March 30 calling for the government to immediately release jailed activists.

Report on attack against protesters submitted Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:18 PM PDT An independent Yangon Region parliamentarian has called for the release of a report on the violent dispersal of demonstrators on March 5 by a quasi-official civilian force.

Hospitals wary of emergency cases Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:13 PM PDT Despite the adoption last year of a law requiring private hospitals and clinics to treat emergency cases regardless of whether a police report could be involved, many facilities continue to turn away patients in such cases, or are unaware of the new guidelines.

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