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What Is the State of Human Rights in Myanmar?
A United Nations human rights expert urged Monday the international community rushing to forge or strengthen political or economic ties with Myanmar not to undermine the country’s rights priorities. “International actors must continue to prioritize human rights, particularly in business and investment relations,” said Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human [...]
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UN Welcomes Release of 83 Prisoners in Myanmar
The United Nations (UN) rights chief has welcomed the release of a second wave of 83 prisoners on Myanmar’s New Year last Sunday, by Presidential amnesty. This, according to a UN statement, follows the release of 199 political prisoners on April 8. Myanmar had dropped charges against them or they were pardoned. The prisoners included [...]
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Civilian President to Bring Democratic Reforms in Myanmar
Following the historic national polls last November, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated Htin Kyaw, who was elected Wednesday by the Myanmar Parliament as the first civilian President in more than five decades. “He welcomes this as a significant achievement towards advancing the democratic reforms ushered in by the outgoing Government,” indicated a statement issued [...]
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Myanmar Begins the Process of Forming Next Government
Welcoming this past weekend’s elections as “a significant achievement in Myanmar’s democratic transition,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday extended congratulations to the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for their landmark performance at the polls and to the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) for its dignified acceptance of [...]
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Myanmar Elections: UN Chief Concerned About Hate Speech
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern Sunday at the continuous resort to hate speech, provocation of communal hostilities and the abuse of religion for political purposes, incited by “extreme element among the majority community in Myanmar”. “With the approaching elections on 8 November, he urges all concerned in Myanmar to eschew any [...]
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P&G Provides Clean Drinking Water in Myanmar
Procter & Gamble (P&G) and US Agency for International Development (USAID) have kicked off a Global Development Alliance (GDA) to improve health in Myanmar. The first liter, which marks the launch of the partnership, was delivered at a community in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon. Over the next two years, USAID and P&G intend to make [...]
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Ford Celebrates Opening of First Myanmar Dealership
Ford Motor Company today celebrated the grand opening of the first authorized Ford dealership in Myanmar. Located in Yangon, the country’s commercial center, the new facility establishes the presence of the Ford brand and global vehicles in the developing country. In April, Ford became the first global automaker to announce its brand’s official entry into [...]
Coca-Cola Starts Local Production in Myanmar
For the first time in more than 60 years, Coca-Cola is being bottled in Myanmar. Muhtar Kent, chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, today attended the ceremonial inauguration of a bottling plant in Crystal Springs, Hmawbi Township. The facility is the first to locally bottle Coca-Cola since the company re-entered Myanmar last year. “As [...]
Dentsu to Promote SEA Games in Myanmar
Leading advertising agency Dentsu announced today that its overseas subsidiary Dentsu Sports Asia has been appointed by the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar as its sponsorship management consultant for the 27th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) to be held in Naypyidaw, Yangon and Mandalay from December 11–22 this year. The agreement [...]
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Panasonic to Donate 100,000 Solar Lanterns
Panasonic Corporation deploys the 100 Thousand Solar Lantern Project, a project to donate a total of 100,000 solar lanterns to people in regions of the world without electricity, by 2018, the 100th anniversary of the company’s founding. As the first stage in this effort, Panasonic donated 3,000 Compact Solar Lights (CSLs) to NGOs helping to [...]
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Nobel Prize Winner Suu Kyi Wins Election in Myanmar
Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991) Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released from house arrest by the Myanmar’s ruling military in 2010, has won in the by-elections held today for 45 vacant parliamentary seats, it’s being said. Although no official confirmation came from the government, Suu Kyi’s party, National League for Democracy (NLD) claimed [...]
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Human Rights Outfit Welcomes Suu Kyi Release
Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist organization Amnesty International has welcomed the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a prisoner of conscience, from house arrest in Myanmar (formerly called Burma). Suu Kyi co-founded the National League for Democracy (NLD), a pro-democracy political party that sought to counter the military junta that has ruled Myanmar since 1962. [...]
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