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• Five Myanmar migrants murdered
• Appeal seeks to overturn conviction under anti-terrorism law
• Special rapporteur, investigative commission both visit Rakhine
• Eleven media team granted bail as defamation case continues
• TNLA calls for new peace process roadmap
• New MCDC members take their oaths
• Cut from MP fund goes to peace process
• Buddhist hardliners halt annual Muslim celebration

Five Myanmar migrants murdered Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:26 AM PST Five Myanmar migrant workers were murdered and two remain in critical condition after being attacked by a knife-wielding mob near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on January 5.

Appeal seeks to overturn conviction under anti-terrorism law Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:23 AM PST Defence lawyers are trying to overturn a slew of convictions against four Muslim men by contending that the anti-terrorism law used to charge them was not in place when the alleged crime occurred.

Special rapporteur, investigative commission both visit Rakhine Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:22 AM PST The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has announced that her fifth visit to the country will start today and extend until January 20. A statement announcing Yanghee Lee's visit said she plans to make stops in Myitkyina, Hpakant and Laiza in Kachin State, as well as Sittwe, Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw in Rakhine State, in addition to taking meetings in Nay Pyi Taw and Yangon.

Eleven media team granted bail as defamation case continues Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:20 AM PST The CEO and chief editor at Eleven Media were granted bail on their fourth appeal last week, following an apology and retraction of the editorial which sparked the legal feud with the Yangon Region government.

TNLA calls for new peace process roadmap Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:20 AM PST The Ta'ang National Liberation Army - one of the armed groups engaged in ongoing fighting with the Tatmadaw - has slammed the new government's guidance of the peace process as "ineffectual". The group, which has not signed a ceasefire, demanded a widening of the peace process and called on the NLD to do more leg work to involve all ethnic groups.

New MCDC members take their oaths Posted: 09 Jan 2017 12:15 AM PST The new Mandalay City Development Committee is up and running. More than four months after elections for the municipal body, and one embittered election dispute later, the new members were sworn in on January 6 without a hitch.

Cut from MP fund goes to peace process Posted: 08 Jan 2017 11:59 PM PST The National League for Democracy has announced that K200 million from a fund collected by deducting from lawmakers' salaries has been earmarked for the peace process.

Buddhist hardliners halt annual Muslim celebration Posted: 08 Jan 2017 11:58 PM PST Hardline Buddhist nationalists stopped a Muslim religious ceremony in Yangon yesterday, witnesses and organisers said, as religious tensions continue to summer amid a bloody military campaign in northern Rakhine State.

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