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Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| January 24, 2005—Burma’s most prominent student leader has been harassed by authorities since his release last November from a 16-year-long imprisonment, according to relatives in Rangoon. |
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| January 11, 2005—Dozens of Burmese migrants are being arrested daily in southern Thailand by police who say they are looking for looters, said NGO workers. |
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Friday, January 7, 2005 |
| January 07, 2005—Independent assessments of the tsunami death toll in Burma tend to confirm the Rangoon government figures, despite continuing skepticism. |
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Friday, December 31, 2004 |
| December 31, 2004—Burma’s military government has refused offers of international relief aid in the wake of the tsunamis that hit south and Southeast Asia, including large areas of southern Burma and the Irrawaddy delta. |
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Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
| December 30, 2004—The tsunami-related death toll of Burmese nationals working in neighboring Thailand continues to increase. |
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Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| December 10, 2004—The three-day World Buddhist summit in Rangoon continued Friday under a mantle of tight security. A resident in downtown Rangoon said in a telephone conversation that the government appeared to be worried about the prospect of protests on the edge of the controversial gathering. |
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Thursday, December 9, 2004 |
| December 09, 2004—Several Thai senators and Burmese dissidents in exile discussed political developments in Burma and the plight of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a meeting in Bangkok on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 |
| December 01, 2004—Several publications in Burma are being forced to run news stories about meetings between Rangoon-based western diplomats and the recently released former student leader Min Ko Naing, as well as with the main opposition party, according to journalists in Rangoon. |
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Friday, November 26, 2004 |
| November 26, 2004—About a dozen trucks packed with several hundred prisoners drove out of Burma’s Insein prison on Friday, according to eyewitness reports. |
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Thursday, November 25, 2004 |
| November 25, 2004—Burma’s main opposition National League for Democracy, or NLD, expects to be invited to the reconvened National Convention, a senior party official said Thursday. |
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Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| November 24, 2004—Two international media watchdog groups urged Burma’s prime minister on Tuesday to free detained journalists, a week after the military government announced it would release nearly 4,000 prisoners improperly punished. |
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Saturday, November 20, 2004 |
| November 20, 2004—Burma’s most prominent student leader was freed on Friday after being detained for nearly 16 years in jail, a family member said. |
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Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| November 19, 2004—The first of the nearly 4,000 prisoners Burma’s junta promised Thursday night to release were freed Friday, according to sources in Rangoon. |
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| November 10, 2004—Burma’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Board, or PSRB, recently allowed a number of private magazines that were previously published under licenses issued through the Office of the Chief of Military Intelligence, or OCMI, to re-register them in their owners’ names, according to journalists in Rangoon. |
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Tuesday, November 9, 2004 |
| November 09, 2004—At least two high-ranking staffers from the Office of the Chief of Military Intelligence, or OCMI, have been sentenced to long jail terms for corruption, according to a Rangoon businessman. |
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Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| October 22, 2004—A number of businesses linked to Burma’s Office of the Chief of Military Intelligence, or OCMI, and its former boss Gen Khin Nyunt, the prime minister that was ousted in a palace coup on Monday, have been closed down or taken over. |
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
| March 31, 2004—Burma’s main opposition party and several ethnic groups have yet to be invited to attend the National Convention, despite a junta announcement yesterday that the convention would reconvene on May 17, opposition and ethnic representatives said today from Rangoon. |
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| March 23, 2004—Burmese student unions and rights groups in exile called for the immediate release of Min Ko Naing, the student leader who was arrested 15 years ago today. Despite his long detention, a former colleague in Rangoon says the leader’s spirit is still strong. |
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Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| March 18, 2004—Several dozen used cars are being smuggled into Burma from Thailand and China everyday, say car dealers and local residents in Burma. Car dealers must pay large bribes to government authorities and insurgents to smuggle the vehicles into the country. |
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| April 27, 2004—Thai authorities have put a stop to three Burmese opposition groups’ meetings in the Thai border town of Mae Sot in recent days, saying that any movement against Burma’s junta can’t be launched from Thai soil, the opposition groups said. |
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