Monday, January 23, 2017

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National News

Teachers call for better security after educator’s murder

Posted: 22 Jan 2017 11:45 PM PST

Teachers around the country demonstrated yesterday calling for better protection of educators after one of their colleagues was abducted and shot dead in Kachin State's Hpakant township.

Demonstrators take aim at section 66(d)

Posted: 22 Jan 2017 11:42 PM PST

Activists, lawyers and journalists gathered in Mahabandoola Park yesterday in a demonstration of solidarity against Myanmar's notorious defamation laws.

As possible restart of Tigyit coal plant looms, opposition rallies

Posted: 22 Jan 2017 11:37 PM PST

A youth organisation is calling on the government to scrap a controversial Shan State coal-fired power plant and invest instead in hydropower.

Panda Textile workers back on strike after last-minute revisions to negotiated truce

Posted: 22 Jan 2017 11:36 PM PST

Eight months and a failed negotiation attempt since the start of the Panda Textile Factory strikes, disgruntled workers are pressing the Union government to intervene in the dispute. The workers began protesting again yesterday over post-negotiation additions to their employment handbook made by the factory management.

Magwe Hluttaw enforces cellphone ban

Posted: 22 Jan 2017 11:34 PM PST

Tired of ringing cellphones disrupting hluttaw sessions, Magwe's deputy speaker is enforcing a ban. So much as bringing a mobile device into the Hluttaw Hall will now see offenders reprimanded or ejected from the session.

Transgender icon released as charge dismissed

Posted: 22 Jan 2017 11:24 PM PST

After four days in jail, transgender model Ma Myo Ko Ko San was released and the defamation case against her declared spurious as investigating officers found insufficient evidence to support the lawsuit.
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