Hunger-striking activist Naw Ohn Hla to appeal sentence by month’s end – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/43926 RANGOON – The lawyer for jailed land-rights protestor Naw Ohn Hla says that his client hopes to appeal...
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Distrust and displacement on Kachin frontline – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=23115 LAJA YANG, Kachin State—The dry daytime heat succumbs to a balmy dusk cool, setting the tree-lined valley in...
Talking about the weather? Thai PM visits Burma – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22196 BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will today visit meet Burma’s first civilian head of Government in...
Myanmar buys time with dam block – Asia Times
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/MJ04Ae01.html BANGKOK – China has reacted coolly to Myanmar’s surprise suspension of a controversial US$3.6 billion hydropower dam project...
War trumps investment in Myanmar – Asia Times
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/MG26Ae01.html BANGKOK – Myanmar’s longest-standing ethnic minority militia, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), has forced a halt to...
Activists link Burma’s resource investments to ethnic fighting – The Irrawaddy
Burmese environmentalists say that dozens of foreign investment projects linked to the country’s natural resources drive the recent increase...