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Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank), the country’s third-biggest lender, said it will spend three years building an anti-money laundering (AML) centre to improve and centralise AML control.
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One of China’s biggest state-owned lenders has suspended an account used to fund ethnic rebels fighting government troops in Burma, halting an arrangement that could have stoked diplomatic tensions between Beijing and Naypyidaw.
More than 30,000 people have fled Burma’s restive Kokang autonomous zone in the aftermath of an attack by the region’s dominant ethnic armed group on the administrative capital Laogai earlier this month.
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Raging battles on Burma’s border with China have claimed dozens more lives, military and official sources said Wednesday, as the mounting death toll landed a fresh blow to the government’s faltering peace process.
Dozens of Burmese soldiers have been killed in several clashes between ethnic rebels and the army in Kokang along the border with China, state media reports.
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Aid workers and those displaced have expressed fears of a more violent and protracted conflict than a previous flare-up in the Kokang region in early 2015.
The Kokang Self-Administered Zone’s capital Laogai, in northern Shan State, came under attack early Monday morning, with a spokesman for the coalition of ethnic armed groups identifying itself as the Northern Alliance saying one of its members was responsible for the assault.
Burmese military media have reported that Kokang rebels abducted five workers from a hydropower plant in Laogai.
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Yan Kyin Kan, a Lower House MP for the Kokang Democracy and Unity Party, discusses the challenges facing his war-torn region in Shan State.
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Renewed fighting has broken out between government forces and MNDAA near the Chinese border, while the Tatmadaw has also taken a Kachin outpost in Kutkai.
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China says more than 100,000 refugees have returned to the Kokang region of northern Shan State from camps in its Yunnan Province.
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The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement is at a crossroads – Can a truce be signed while the govt is still at war with certain ethnic groups? Have you say.
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The ruling USDP has said will run in Kokang electorates. But is the war-torn region ready for polls so soon?
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The issue of disarmament was high on the agenda, both with Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyidaw and at an ethnic summit in northern Thailand.
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The Burmese government announced on Tuesday a third extension of the State of Emergency and martial law in the Kokang Self-Administered Region.
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Burmese government says it has reached a compromise on all but one remaining issue with ethnic delegates after peace talks in Rangoon this week.
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Kokang rebels allege that the Burmese army have continued attacks on their positions, despite the declaration of a unilateral ceasefire earlier this month.
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The MNDAA has vowed to stop attacking Burmese government units as from Wednesday at midnight, other than for self-defence.
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A war of propaganda has been evident over the past months; Myawady has gone to lengths to explain the strategies employed in capturing Kokang outposts.
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It is believed the three Chinese men were stopped and searched by Burmese soldiers, who suspected they may be spies after viewing pictures on their phones.
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Conflict rages in the Kokang region. Meanwhile, a three-month presidential decree imposing martial law is set to expire on 17 May.
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The conflict between government forces and Kokang rebels has intensified north of Laogai this week with both sides claiming the advantage.
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Burmese govt looks to exclude MNDAA, TNLA and AA, but ethnic bloc representative reaffirms the NCCT line that all groups must be included in NCA.
Interview Lead Story News Peace Process
DVB speaks to Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team member Hkun Okker as 3 ethnic groups threaten to quit the ethnic bloc.
In a letter sent on World Press Freedom Day by the military, the country’s media have been warned against covering statements from the Kokang militia.
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The Burmese army launched a series of attacks on Kokang positions in recent days using artillery, air strikes and chemical weapons, a rebel spokesman says.
Reports of ferocious fighting in Burma’s restive Kokang region this week have put the government death toll at 21.
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A new surge in fighting has been observed between government forces and Kokang troops close to the China-Burma border, according to a Kokang spokesperson.
Moe Kyaw Than, 45, a member of the Myanmar Red Cross Society in Kunlong, had been in hospital since he was shot in the stomach.
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The latest round of peace talks continue in Rangoon, with both sides in the Kokang conflict urged to find a peaceful resolution.
