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Displaced people camping in the streets awake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 21 Jan 2010
Haitian Government to Relocate 400,000 Displaced by Quake
7.0 magnitude quake left an estimated 1.5 million people homeless
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I think most migrants see this as an opportunity for the Burmese government to regularise them, get them in the paper work and then somehow tax them. ...
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 |  The great danger when states sell their assets is that they may sell them at 'fire sale' prices to their cronies. This danger is very real in Burma.  — Sean Turnell, an economist and associate professor at Macquarie University in Australia |
Expelled Hmong Imprisoned in Laos |
| By ALEX ELLGEE |
| Human Rights groups accuse authorities in Laos of mistreating Hmong refugees forcibly deported by Thailand early this month. |
Junta Puts More State-owned Properties up for Sale |
| By WAI MOE AND BA KAUNG |
| Burma's ruling regime is continuing a recent wave of privatizations with the sale of 100 state-owned properties. |
Thailand Extends Migrant Worker Permits |
| By LAWI WENG |
| The Thai government extends two-year work permits held by 1.3 million Burmese migrants whose permits are scheduled to expire. |
Junta 'Worse' than Nargis |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| The president of the human rights committee of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) says that human rights violations by the Burmese junta have caused more damaged than Cyclone Nargis. |
Air Force Jet Crashes near Rangoon Airport |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| A Burmese Air Force fighter plane crashed Friday morning while attempting to land at Rangoon airport, killing its pilot. |
Win Tin returns to Rangoon
Veteran journalist Win Tin, a central executive committee member of the National League ...Businesses accuse Htoo Trading of unfair monopolization
Mobile phone dealers are accusing Htoo Trading of monopolizing the market for ...Rights group concerned over Thai policy on refugees, migrants
Deteriorating human rights records is in evidence in Thailand given the country’s ...U.S. policy grants China greater influence in Burma
The inconsistent foreign policy of the United States towards Asian countries has gifted ...| Security concerns plague migrant workers Jan 22, 2010 (DVB)–Burmese migrant workers are waiting with concern over the new National Verification Programme which will seek to register the millions of migrant workers currently in Thailand. - more |
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| Burma journal attacks ‘criminal’ homosexuality Jan 22, 2010 (DVB)–Homosexuality can cause mental illness and encourage sexual crimes, medical “experts” have warned in a front-page article in Burmese media today. - more |
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| Burma praised for anti-trafficking progress Jan 22, 2010 (DVB)–A senior UN official in Burma has congratulated the ruling junta on steps it has taken to tackle human trafficking, during a meeting yesterday of six Mekong states in Bagan. - more |
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| Burma junta ‘worse than cyclone Nargis’ Jan 22, 2010 (DVB)–Human rights violations by the ruling junta in Burma have caused more damage than cyclone Nargis, which struck in 2008 and left 140,000 people dead, a top Philippines senator has said. - more |
Myanmar official: human traffickers under pressure
| Human Rights Source > Associated Press Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:16 | |
| Cooperation among the countries of the Mekong River region is putting pressure on human traffickers, a top Myanmar official has said. The Myanma Ahlin daily reported Thursday that ... | |
| ILO Renews Watchdog Pact with Burma |
| National Source > THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:14 | |
| Burma's military government has renewed for a year an agreement allowing the UN to monitor complaints of forced labor, the state-controlled press reported Wednesday... | |
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