Burma’s President Thein Sein told reporters on Wednesday that the government will pursue a four-point plan aimed at resolving the bitter divisions between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Rakhine State. He said the plan will involve changing people’s prejudices, promoting education, creating jobs—and introducing a program of birth control.
The Karen National Union in Southern Burma says a coal extraction operation near Karen villages in eastern Tavoy is not welcome. Villagers are concerned it could destroy most of their plantations.
Sao Ood Kehsi, 65, who had been ex-Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo’s classmate in Taunggyi, passed away last night in Taunggyi at 21:30, according to sources there.
Over 28 Rohingya have been arrested for illegally crossing the Bangladesh border at Gumdum, Taungbro and Balukhali on Nov. 20. They were deported back to Burma the same day, according to one Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) officer.
The owner of a fish farm in the Irrawaddy delta has filed charges against two reporters and a representative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for their involvement in a dispute between local farmers in Kyaunggon Township and himself.
A community-based organization (CBO) in Tavoy [Dawei] says that claims made by the Italian-Thai Development Company (ITD) that it has relocated the majority of villagers from the area affected by the construction of the Dawei Project are false.
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