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    Lead Story Mandalay Division News Society

    Calls for crackdown on child beggars in Mandalay

    City official acknowledges there has been a marked increase in the number of children begging at junctions and traffic lights around central Mandalay, and said it was down to “economic problems”.

    News Politics

    Mandalay threatens beggars with arrest

    Crackdown expected on beggars as authorities prepare to clean up image of Burma’s second city prior to influx of tourists

    Analysis Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Rape avoidance 101: Government advice on curbing sexual assault elicits scorn

    The Home Affairs Ministry has been blasted for re-enforcing harmful assumptions about gender-based violence after it released a document positing that women consuming alcohol was among the leading causes of the rape of women and children.

    Lead Story Military News

    Burma Army leaves wounded veterans to languish in poverty

    An untold number of disabled veterans live in army-built communities, struggling to support their families on government allowances.

    Burma’s elders forced onto the streets video

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    Burma’s elders forced onto the streets

    In Rangoon, the high cost of living has forced more and more people onto the streets to beg – and increasingly many of them are elderly.

    News Politics

    Activists harassed, threatened ahead of ASEAN summit

    Activists from across Southeast Asia have been harassed and intimidated by Cambodian authorities, in what has been described as an effort to silence civil society voices ahead of this weekend’s ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh

    Business Environment News

    Dam projects inked as cronies prosper

    Three dams in the pipeline as Burmese tycoons and Chinese companies look set to dominate the lucrative hydropower sector

    News Politics

    Anti-trafficking monk given 8 years

    Arakanese monk arrested in August at his monastery-cum-orphanage is given an eight-year sentence on obscenity and political activism charges

    News Politics

    Orphanage closed as police take children

    Monk who bought 120 children from human traffickers and sheltered them at his Arakan state monastery is arrested on a raft of charges

    News Politics

    Burmese migrants riot in Malaysian camp

    Violence flares in the Ajil detention centre as some 200 Vietnamese and Burmese detainees attempt to set the administration office on fire

    News Politics

    Burma rejects child beggar repatriation

    Six trafficked Burmese children held in a Malaysian immigration camp are set to remain there as the Burmese embassy denies them financial help to return home

    News Politics

    Beggar children held in Malaysian camp

    Trafficked Burmese children as young as 10 kept in detention camp for nine months as Burmese embassy and UNHCR “play volleyball” with their futures

    Analysis

    Still not safe: the trafficked lives of Burmese refugees

    The scourge of Burma’s human trafficking crisis reaches across Southeast Asia, with senior government figures now known to be complicit in a multibillion-dollar industry

    News

    Murder near China-Burma border being linked to child trafficking

    Apr 2, 2009 (DVB), Locals in a Chinese border town have said there could be a link between a young Burmese boy found murdered on Monday and increased incidences of[…]

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    Monks pressured for accepting NLD offering

    Aug 5, 2008 (DVB), Monks who accepted a meal from the National League for Democracy during last month's Martyrs' Day celebration despite warnings from the authorities' have come under pressure[…]

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    Joint relief efforts in Irrawaddy Delta

    May 21, 2008 (DVB), A joint rescue team comprised of people from Maha Gandaryon monastery and the Free Funeral Service and celebrities went to Kyaik Lat and Maaupin townships in[…]

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