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  1. 21. news | 12 Apr 2013

    Myanmar jails trio over Meiktila unrest

    By AFP

    » YANGON - Three people including a gold shop owner have been jailed for 14 years in connection with religious riots in Myanmar last month, state media and police said Friday.

  2. 22. news | 10 Apr 2013

    Myanmar wants jail uniform back

    By AFP

    » YANGON - More than four years after he was freed by the military junta, Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner has been ordered to return the uniform he was wearing on the day of his release.

  3. 23. news | 06 May 2013

    Myanmar delays 'drugs-free' target

    By AFP

    » YANGON - Myanmar has delayed by five years its deadline to eliminate drug production within its borders, a senior official said Monday, as the impoverished nation struggles to stem a growing narcotics crisis.

  4. 24. news | 19 May 2013

    Myanmar's foreign arrivals up 44%

    » YANGON - Foreign arrivals at Yangon airport during the first four months of the year jumped 44% year-on-year, with Europeans accounting for about one-third, reports said Sunday.

  5. 25. news | 11 May 2013

    Cyclone bears down on Myanmar

    By AFP

    » YANGON - Myanmar's authorities were on alert Saturday as a cyclone threatened to hit the west of the country where around 140,000 people displaced by communal violence languish in flood-prone camps.

  6. 26. news | 01 Apr 2013

    AP opens bureau in Myanmar

    By AP

    » YANGON – The Associated Press has become the first international news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two years ago and began relaxing restrictions on the media for the first ti...

  7. 27. news | 25 May 2013

    2-child limit on Myanmar Muslims

    » YANGON - Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families.

  8. 28. news | 05 Apr 2013

    Singapore ups Myanmar investment

    » Singapore will open a Yangon Overseas Centre to encourage growing trade and investment in Myanmar.

  9. 29. news | 30 Mar 2013

    Myanmar denies blame for riots

    » YANGON — Myanmar's government on Saturday rejected remarks by a UN human rights official suggesting that the authorities bear some blame for recent mob attacks by Buddhists on Muslims that killed dozens of people.

  10. 30. news | 30 Mar 2013

    Toll in Myanmar riots reaches 43

    By AFP

    » YANGON - The death toll from recent communal violence in central Myanmar has risen to 43 with more than 1,300 homes and other buildings destroyed, state media reported.

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