Opium cultivation increases for sixth year in Burma, according to UN report

The cultivation of illegal opium has increased in Burma for a sixth successive year, fuelled in part by rising demand for heroin across Asia, the United Nations said on Wednesday.   7:23AM GMT 31 Oct 2012         A poppy farmer cuts opium buds to collect resin in an opium poppy field in the hills of the south Shan State, Myanmar Photo: EP...

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Myanmar News Update on 31 Oct

- ေရႊလီ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ အေၾကာင္းမထူး click - မေရမရာျဖစ္သြားေသာ KIO ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ click - ေရႊလီေဆြးေနြးပြဲ ထိုးစစ္ကိစၥ ေဆြးေႏြး cl...

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Refugees accuse Burmese government of ignoring ethnic cleansing: 'If we stayed, we would have been killed'

Refugees accuse Burma's civilian government of standing by as dozens die in communal violence     Pete Pattisson, Sittwe, Sunday 28 October 2012       When the fire truck arrived at his burning village in Burma's western Rakhine state late last Monday, local teacher Khin Maung Kyi thought help had finally come. Muslim villagers in Kyauk Pyu township had been battling the blaze for hours, after a petrol bomb attack by their Buddhist neighbours. But instead of dousing the flames with water, Khin Maung Kyi claims that the firemen sprayed the fire with petro...

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