Already in Myanmar’s Reformation, an Impasse

View From Asia | By MARK MCDONALD | April 22, 2012, 12:29 am ...

HONG KONG — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and 42 members of her National League for Democracy insist they will not take the oath of office on Monday unless a single problematic word is changed: The newly elected members of Parliament are refusing to swear that they will “safeguard” the Constitution. Instead, they want to say they’ll “respect” it.

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Myanmar's exiled media starting to head home

Kavi Chongkittavorn The Nation Publication Date : 23-04-2012 ... 

News of Myanmar's exiled media returning home has excited the community of dissidents and media activists around the world.

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Dispute keeps Suu Kyi's party out of parliament

Patrick Bodenham , Andrew Buncombe  Rangoon  Monday 23 April 2012 ...

Burma's parliament is due to reopen today – almost certainly without the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the 42 other members of her party who secured seats in the recent by-elections.

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Myanmar, Cambodia probe labour abuse claims

Migrant workers' protests misguided, say bosses 

April 23rd, 2012, Bangkokpost - Myanmar and Cambodian officials have been monitoring the working conditions of migrant workers from their countries following pre-Songkran protests at seafood processing factories in Kanchanaburi and Songkhla.

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Burma News Update on International Media

1.Already in Myanmar's Reformation, an Impasse The New York Times 11:42 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 

2.Myanmar president tours Kanagawa power plants The Japan Times 06:58

3.Feel the pain... BBC 07:24

4.Suu Kyi's party postpones parliamentary debut ABC Online 17:39 Sun, 22 Apr 2012

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Myanmar's minorities say it's too soon to lift sanctions

The National staff Apr 22, 2012    ...

SHAN STATE, MYANMAR // Ethnic minorities in Myanmar say it is dangerously premature for the international community to relax sanctions on the regime while the army continues to attack and abuse them.

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Burma News Update on Myanmar Media

- NLD အမတ္ အၿငိမ္းစားဗိုလ္ႀကီး ဦး၀င္းထိန္၏ လႊတ္ေတာ္တက္ေရး မတက္ေရး သေဘာထားႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အနာဂတ္ ကာကြယ္ေရးမဟာဗ်ဴဟာအျမင္ (တပ္မွဴးတပ္သား ေျပာစကား) click
- “ေလးစားလိုက္နာ” လို႔ ျပင္မေပးရင္ ဘာဆက္လုပ္မွာလဲ (ေဆာင္းပါး) click
- ၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရဲ႕ ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကြယ္လြန္သူ ဦးၾကည္ေမာင္ရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရးစာတမ္း click

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Opportunities for growth as Myanmar opens

Nophakhun Limsamarnphun, The Nation, Publication Date : 21-04-2012 ...

Myanmar's April 1 parliamentary by-elections have proved to be fruitful as far as the country's re-joining the rest of the world is concerned.

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Tri-nation Gas Pipeline Likely to Be Abandoned

April 20th, 2012 6:02pm ...

The proposed gas pipeline project that would supply natural gas from Myanmar to India via Bangladesh will most likely be abandoned due to Yangon’s lack of response on the matter in recent years.

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