A guitar, with a painting by three 88-generation student leaders, was sold for 58.8 million kyat (US$ 66,627) at a fund-raising music concert in Rangoon on Saturday – making it the most expensive guitar in Burma.
Burma’s Parliament on Tuesday approved the government’s reshuffle of ministries, increasing the number to 36, including six ministers located in the President’s Office.
The commission that was recently formed to investigate the Arakan sectarian violence that occurred last June in Arakan State will go to Arakan state to start its mission investigation on the Arakan violence on September 7.
A public meeting will be held in Rathedaung in Arakan State with public representatives from all townships in the region with the aim of lending a hand to the commission of investigation that is going to be coming soon to probe recent violent unrests.
Continued influx of rural people from southern Shan State, more than half a year after ceasefire agreements were signed proves that the much vaunted reforms are only in urban areas but not in the countryside, according to aid workers on the border.
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