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newspaper print house Pitfalls remain in Burma’s evolving media landscape
A relaxation of censorship does not automatically entail security for independent journalists, who as long as they criticise the government will remain at risk of punishment
A woman looks out of the window of a boat on the Irrawaddy river near Bagan Four killed in Irrawaddy ferry accident
An excessive amount of weight is said to have caused a ferry to capsize on the Irrawaddy River, leaving at least four dead
burma soldier pic Chin MP threatened at gunpoint by military
Chin officials continue to decry mistreatment by the central government after a Christian conference was broken up by Burmese soliders and a local representative was held at gunpoint
kachin-abductee Top court drops Kachin abductee case
Supreme Court in Burma won't hear case into Kachin woman believed to have been abducted last year by Burmese troops
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi poses for a photo beside Tin Aye, the election commission chairman, while flanked by NLD leader Thin Oo after registering the NLD for any upcoming elections in Naypyitaw Burma calls on US and EU election observers
The Burmese government is asking representatives from the US, EU and UN to assist in monitoring the country's by-elections in April
1 Tavoy port facing rising tide of anger
Massive port complex in southern Burma the subject of growing disquiet as analyst warns of waning investor enthusiasm
A man searches for his name through lists of voters outside an election commission office in Yangon Burma gets ASEAN poll monitor boost
ASEAN representatives will monitor the 1 April by-elections in Burma amid widespread allegations of fraud and foul play in the lead up to the polls.
WWII-round World War II ordnance kills three
An accident at a smelter in Mandalay involving a mortar round from the second World War has killed three teenagers and injured two
A woman peers from a window of a shelter at a camp for people displaced by fighting between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army, or KIA, outside the city of Myitkyina in northern Myanmar Report highlights atrocities in Kachin state
A report published by Human Rights Watch shines a light on abuses being carried out by government troops and the Kachin Independence Army in northern Burma
Derek Mitchell, the new U.S. special envoy to Myanmar, talks to reporters at his news conference at Yangon International Airport US concerned as polling stations scrapped
US officials are pushing Burmese officials to hold free and fair elections come April amid reports that polling stations are being closed in Kachin state

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