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• President, Senior General to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on December 2
• Laukkai casinos thrive under military
• Attack breaks post-martial law calm in Kokang region capital
• Conservative Buddhists donate to Kachin IDPs
• NLD leader lays down the law to incoming reps
• RCSS agrees to discuss military issues
• Landslide risk survey seals fate of Chin capital
• Armed groups seek to speed up drafting process
• USDP official arrested over Facebook post
• Youth groups raise funds for IDPs

President, Senior General to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on December 2 Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:34 AM PST Top-level talks on the transfer of power to Myanmar's next government are to take place on December 2.

Laukkai casinos thrive under military Posted: 30 Nov 2015 01:01 AM PST Despite being illegal, thousands of gaming tables remained open under martial law – without a single kyat being collected in tax.

Attack breaks post-martial law calm in Kokang region capital Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:59 AM PST An attack by insurgents on military forces in the main Kokang region town of Laukkai has shattered a post-martial law calm in the Shan State border zone.

Conservative Buddhists donate to Kachin IDPs Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:58 AM PST Hard-line nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu has revealed that his Committee for the Protection of Race and Religion, known as Ma Ba Tha, is providing aid to displaced Christians in war-ravaged Kachin State.

NLD leader lays down the law to incoming reps Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:58 AM PST MPs-elect warned that they should expect prison time if found to be corrupt or to have lied about assets.

RCSS agrees to discuss military issues Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:56 AM PST Another major step in the nationwide ceasefire process is to begin in December when the government and the only ethnic Shan armed group to sign the accord will start talks on repositioning their forces.

Landslide risk survey seals fate of Chin capital Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:56 AM PST A Team of German geologists have confirmed that Hakha, the capital of Chin State, is too dangerous to live in.

Armed groups seek to speed up drafting process Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:54 AM PST Seeking to avoid a repeat of the delays that plagued the ceasefire process, armed ethnic groups have called for existing draft political dialogue frameworks to be scrapped and a new text to be written collectively.

USDP official arrested over Facebook post Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:53 AM PST A senior township-level official of the Union Solidarity and Development Party is currently in prison awaiting trial for allegedly posting an image of the head of National League for Democracy chair Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on the body of a naked woman on his Facebook page.

Youth groups raise funds for IDPs Posted: 30 Nov 2015 12:52 AM PST Volunteers say they have collected K6 million on the streets of Yangon for the relief of families displaced by the fighting in Shan State.

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