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Burma Partnership is pleased to announce that we have launched our new website. We hope it will be a useful tool for governments, journalists, researchers, and especially activists from Burma and all over the world.

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Burma Update: July 17, 2008


News from Burmese Media

Democratic Voice of Burma: Low expectations for Gambari visit
Democratic Voice of Burma: School classes held in temporary shelters
Democratic Voice of Burma: NLD members charged with causing public alarm
Democratic Voice of Burma: Cartoon exhibition to raise funds for cyclone victims
Narinjara News: Two Shrimp Factories Close Down in Arakan
Narinjara News: Burmese Authorities Collect Bangladesh Taka and Phone Cards as Tolls
Shan Hareld Agency for News: Junta private arrested for bank-burglary
Shan Hareld Agency for News: Junta officials, two teak traders killed over unequal division of loot
Kaladan Press Network: WFP distributes rice and edible oil in Maungdaw north
Kaladan Press Network: Thirteen refugees abducted by Nasaka from Naff River
Kachin News Group: The KIO supplies 24-hour electricity in Kachin State
Mizzima News: Burmese junta profiting from aid funds?
Mizzima News: UN humanitarian chief to revisit Burma
Mizzima News: Singers to raise funds for cyclone victims with new album
The Irrawaddy: Charges of Forced Labor Emerge in Cyclone-Hit Areas


Opinion/Other

Mizzima News: Cronyism; unhealthy competition in media market [Analysis] - Htet Win and Hset Linn
The Irrawaddy: The Irrawaddy Delta Redux [Letter from Burma] - Aung Thet Wine
Monsters and Critics: ASEAN finally gets something right on Myanmar [Analysis] - Peter Janssen


Cartoon


The Irrawaddy: Gambari on the UN Carousel (again!) - Harn Lay





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