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• Rakhine villagers flee Tatmadaw attacks
• Lack of ethnic party MPs ‘serious weakness’ in parliament
• Labour dispute referred to minimum-wage fixing committee
• Series of small quakes near Yangon under watch
• Conference tackles constitutional reform
• Rector on the run amid bribery allegations
• Hackers take down Thai websites
• Facebook unblocks cartoonist’s page

Rakhine villagers flee Tatmadaw attacks Posted: 13 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Rakhine residents in two northern townships say they are living in fear and do not dare go out after dark after government troops forced locals to work as porters during ongoing operations against Arakan Army militants.

Lack of ethnic party MPs ‘serious weakness’ in parliament Posted: 13 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Manam Tu Ja is a well-known Kachin leader who served 34 years in the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), the political wing of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). He led the KIO delegation that participated in the military-run National Convention, a controversial process that resulted in the drafting of the 2008 constitution.

Labour dispute referred to minimum-wage fixing committee Posted: 13 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Minimum-wage legislation has left us worse off, say workers at a wood-products factory in Mandalay Region. They say the management of the Kan Kaung Chin Yadanar factory in Bal Lin village, Singu township, is asking them to do more work for less money than before the law came into force.

Series of small quakes near Yangon under watch Posted: 13 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Seismologists are keeping a close eye on a series of small earthquakes shaking Yangon, with the Myanmar Earthquake Committee suspecting they are aftershocks of a larger jolt that occurred on the evening of January 12, blacking out wide areas of the city.

Conference tackles constitutional reform Posted: 13 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Ethnic armed groups that signed up to the nationwide ceasefire pact raised their demands for constitutional reform yesterday as the Union Peace Conference in Nay Pyi Taw tackled the thorny issue of power sharing in a future federal state.

Rector on the run amid bribery allegations Posted: 13 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST The rector of Meiktila University has reportedly absconded while facing corruption charges in a lawsuit alleging he was the recipient of almost K11 million in bribes from a construction company.

Hackers take down Thai websites Posted: 13 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Hackers associated with the Anonymous collective have knocked offline nearly 300 Thai court and government websites in retaliation for death sentences handed down to two Myanmar men for murdering a pair of British tourists on Koh Tao.

Facebook unblocks cartoonist’s page Posted: 13 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST A prominent cartoonist who ruffled feathers with a satirical cartoon of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is now back on Facebook after his page was blocked. Facebook spokesperson Clare Wareing apologised yesterday for the suspension of S Thar Htoo's account, which arose after complaints from unknown users had invoked the social medium's authentic name policy.

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