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• Parents welcome end of school fees
• Final door slams shut on journalists in parliament
• Aid groups stopped from reaching boat in delta
• Australia turns back asylum-seeker boat
• NLD cautiously wades into regional migration crisis
• China launches live-fire exercises along border
• Yangon court sentences three human traffickers to 10 years’ imprisonment
• MP seeks death for antiquity smugglers
• Dozens of food samples fail FDA tests
• IWT to fund fleet renewal with auction

Parents welcome end of school fees Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:57 PM PDT Parents have praised the government's decision to make high school free this year, after introducing free primary and middle schoooling in 2010-11 and 2013-14 respectively. The move to make high school free is expected to cost about K5 billion a year.

Final door slams shut on journalists in parliament Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:55 PM PDT The news blackout imposed by parliament last week has now been extended to both houses.

Aid groups stopped from reaching boat in delta Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:50 PM PDT Journalists have also been stopped from approaching vessel that was rescued off Ayeyarwady coast on May 29.

Australia turns back asylum-seeker boat Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:49 PM PDT Scores of asylum-seekers have come ashore in eastern Indonesia after their boat was intercepted by the Australian navy and pushed into Indonesian waters as they headed for New Zealand, police said yesterday.

NLD cautiously wades into regional migration crisis Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:48 PM PDT As pressure mounts on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to comment on the ongoing smuggling boats crisis and the Rakhine State tensions helping to fuel it, her party yesterday used its first formal statement on the unfolding tragedy to call for stronger action to stop human trafficking in the region.

China launches live-fire exercises along border Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:39 PM PDT A 100-kilometre stretch of the border in northern Shan State will host land and air exercises until further notice.

Yangon court sentences three human traffickers to 10 years’ imprisonment Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:35 PM PDT Yangon's Eastern District Court yesterday sentenced three people to 10 years' imprisonment for their role in trafficking a Yangon woman to China, where she was sold off as a bride and had a baby.

MP seeks death for antiquity smugglers Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:33 PM PDT Traffickers in antiquities who cut off the heads of Buddha images should face the death penalty, a prominent businessman-turned-MP proposed yesterday during a debate in the upper house on protecting the national heritage.

Dozens of food samples fail FDA tests Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:30 PM PDT Nearly 60 food products have been found unsafe to eat by Mandalay's Food and Drug Administration.

IWT to fund fleet renewal with auction Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:29 PM PDT Still reeling from the Aung Takon 3 tragedy last March, when at least 72 passengers and crew drowned in the ferry sinking, Inland Water Transport is to sell off all its old ships in order to finance the purchase of new ones.

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