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• Ma Ba Tha hits back at minister's calls for termination
• A reluctant association
• After half a century, students demand govt reveal truth about July 7 crackdown
• Hydropower dams, major development projects suspended in Shan State: minister
• Nearly 14 road deaths daily in first half of 2016
• Over 20,000 people flooded out of their homes in Rakhine State
• After being pulled from Yangon screening, ‘Twilight over Burma’ banned at Thai film festival
• Women demand more involvement in peace talks
• As Myanmar comes under CEDAW review, rights groups present legacy of stigma, victim-blaming
• Exhausted by war, Kachin displaced in KIA-held territory see aid dwindle

Ma Ba Tha hits back at minister's calls for termination Posted: 08 Jul 2016 02:30 AM PDT A prominent Buddhist nationalist group is fighting back against the Yangon chief minister's attempts to dissolve the organisation.

A reluctant association Posted: 08 Jul 2016 12:58 AM PDT Giving help to non-state armed groups can result in a five-year jail term under a controversial law, but as members of one such illegal organisation explain, villagers are often forced to get involved against their will.

After half a century, students demand govt reveal truth about July 7 crackdown Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:30 PM PDT Students yesterday reiterated their annual call for the resurrection of Yangon's iconic student union on the anniversary of the day it was dynamited by General Ne Win's government.

Hydropower dams, major development projects suspended in Shan State: minister Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:30 PM PDT The Naungpha hydropower dam is one of several major projects in Shan State that have been suspended until cost-benefit field analyses are performed, according to the state minister for finance and planning, U Soe Nyunt Lwin.

Nearly 14 road deaths daily in first half of 2016 Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:30 PM PDT Road-related deaths are up, with an average of 13.9 people killed each day in the first six months of the year, according to Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe, minister for home affairs.

Over 20,000 people flooded out of their homes in Rakhine State Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:30 PM PDT As the water continues to rise in parts of flood-hit Rakhine State, the number of displaced people has grown dramatically over the past few days. More than 20,000 people across five townships have now been evacuated or lost their homes after a storm that began earlier this week, according to the Department of Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw.

After being pulled from Yangon screening, ‘Twilight over Burma’ banned at Thai film festival Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:30 PM PDT A Film censored in Myanmar at a human rights festival last month has now been banned in Thailand, apparently for similar reasons. Twilight over Burma, the story of the wife of Hsipaw saopha (prince) Sao Kya Seng, was one of four films to be abruptly pulled from the Thailand International Film Destination Festival.

Women demand more involvement in peace talks Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:30 PM PDT If women are not included in peace talks, the concerns and struggles of women living in conflict zones will not be addressed, women's rights groups and political parties say.

As Myanmar comes under CEDAW review, rights groups present legacy of stigma, victim-blaming Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:30 PM PDT "In Mon State, a 13-year-old disabled girl was raped in a village. The police kept on transferring the case from one place to another. After more than 12 days, a police officer called his wife to examine the girl for vaginal injury and semen to prove the rape. The wife of police officer explained that she didn't find any evidence on the girl. The village administrative bodies forced the girl to marry the perpetrator."

Exhausted by war, Kachin displaced in KIA-held territory see aid dwindle Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:30 PM PDT Za Hkawng, a 70-year-old ethnic Kachin man, prepares some tea in his small bamboo hut situated on a windy mountain ridge and recalls how he used to live off the land as a farmer. His village is now a front-line position of the Kachin Independence Army.

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