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• Dutch tourist sentenced to three months for disturbing dhamma sermon
• ‘Don’t ask tough questions’ – checks on power out the window as NLD exerts its majority
• Four national human rights commissioners resign over child domestic workers scandal
• MPs to send letter to govt urging end to conflicts
• More calls for de-escalation of fighting in Kachin and northern Shan states
• Govt releases Citizens Budget in bid to boost finance transparency
• ANP’s congress to be held in early 2017
• Ma Ha Na versus London Sayadaw – how will the controversy end?
• As conflicts simmer, Kayan group fears further spread
• Myanmar highlighted as a priority hub in ending tiger trade

Dutch tourist sentenced to three months for disturbing dhamma sermon Posted: 07 Oct 2016 01:07 AM PDT Dutch tourist Klaas Haytema was sentenced by a Mandalay court yesterday to three months in prison and ordered to pay a K100,000 (US$80) fine after being found guilty of disturbing a religious assembly under section 296 of the penal code.

‘Don’t ask tough questions’ – checks on power out the window as NLD exerts its majority Posted: 07 Oct 2016 01:06 AM PDT National League for Democracy MPs have been forced to reconcile their roles in supporting democracy with the machinations of governance following a chiding in which they were told to stop asking "tough questions".

Four national human rights commissioners resign over child domestic workers scandal Posted: 07 Oct 2016 12:55 AM PDT Four members of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission resigned yesterday amid a ballooning scandal and seething public backlash over financial settlement arranged in a child torture case.

MPs to send letter to govt urging end to conflicts Posted: 07 Oct 2016 12:54 AM PDT A group of lower house lawmakers will send a letter to the Union government urging it to end recent hostilities between the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed groups as quickly as possible, in an apparent conflation of the National League for Democracy administration's powers with those of the autonomous military.

More calls for de-escalation of fighting in Kachin and northern Shan states Posted: 07 Oct 2016 12:00 AM PDT Tens of thousands of people protested in Kachin State's capital yesterday, calling for an end to military hostilities. "Statements alone are no longer working. We need to come out and protest, and demand an end to war."

Govt releases Citizens Budget in bid to boost finance transparency Posted: 06 Oct 2016 11:54 PM PDT For the first time, the government has explained its income and spending to the public. The Ministry of Planning and Finance has released a Citizens Budget.

ANP’s congress to be held in early 2017 Posted: 06 Oct 2016 11:38 PM PDT The Arakan National Party will hold its next congress in early 2017, when it will reappoint central executive committee members following a party purge, an official said.

Ma Ha Na versus London Sayadaw – how will the controversy end? Posted: 06 Oct 2016 11:37 PM PDT The legal, religious and perhaps political tangle represented by the long-running court action against the senior cleric known as London Sayadaw has not been unravelled by the collapse of the case against him and his co-defendants. Indeed, the affair could now become more complicated.

As conflicts simmer, Kayan group fears further spread Posted: 06 Oct 2016 11:36 PM PDT An ethnic Kayan youth organisation has joined growing calls for a cessation of hostilities in Myanmar's border regions, where recent Tatmadaw offensives have displaced thousands of civilians.

Myanmar highlighted as a priority hub in ending tiger trade Posted: 06 Oct 2016 11:35 PM PDT The illicit trade in tiger skins and parts has continued unabated in Asia, with Myanmar considered a trading hub rife with unregulated markets and lax enforcement, two wildlife conservation groups said in a new report.

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