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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2006
    Myanmar

    Despite political restrictions, monks in Burma are a force to preserve nature...

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2004
    Myanmar

    Fifty-five years of civil war have decimated Burma’s Karen State, forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes. Most would like to return—by their own will when the fighting stops.

    By Emma Larkin/Mae Sot, Thailand

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2016
    Myanmar

    Land tenure rights and food security for all farmers in Burma has been described by Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Tun Win as one of the top priorities of the National League for Democracy (NLD) government.

    “Our government wishes to give back land to the rightful owners,” said Tun Win, referring to the smallholder farmers who still make up the bulk of Burma’s population. He was speaking to reporters from his office on Tuesday.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    Critics dismiss Asean plan for free movement of labor...

    "DESPITE the high-minded ideals of the Asean Vision 2020 plan launched more than a decade ago by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), cynics continue to dismiss its aim of labor mobility in a “community of caring societies” as just so much humbug.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2001
    Myanmar

    One of the world’s "biodiversity hotspots" is under siege, as a growing number of business interests
    seek to cash in the "peace" in northern Burma’s Kachin State... A project is in progress to build a number of roads in Kachin State in return for huge logging concessions.
    While improving and expanding the infrastructure in Kachin State is much needed, the impact of this deal on
    the environment could prove to be disastrous...

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2008
    Myanmar

    WHEN Snr-Gen Than Shwe relocated the seat of Burma’s military government to a site some 320 km (200 miles) north of the former capital, Rangoon, he did so without any fanfare. Acting solely on his prerogatives as the undisputed ruler of the country, he offered no explanations to the Burmese people or the rest of the world. The move was announced only after it had become a fait accompli.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2008
    Myanmar

    Naypyidaw, now three years old, was designed and built to serve as the seat of Burma’s military government. For the ordinary Burmese who have to live and work there, it’s a city without a hear

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2007
    Myanmar

    Burmese residents of a US city still find it hard to escape the politics of their homeland...

    "Than Myint arrived in the “land of opportunities” as a refugee nine years ago, together with her husband and children. A native of Rangoon, Than Myint now lives in Fort Wayne, a city of some 200,000 people in the US state of Indiana. Now in her late 50s, she has learned how to survive and lead a satisfactory life in the US—the kind of existence she would never have been able to enjoy in Burma...

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2007
    Myanmar

    More than 10,000 Burmese migrants in Thailand’s Mae La refugee camp could soon be resettled in the US...

    "It could be a scene from a travel trade show—a crowd of mostly young people clusters in front of poster boards bearing pictures of life in the US. These are no tourists, however, but Burmese refugees in Thailand hoping to resettle in the US and eager for any illustration of what they can expect to find there...

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2007
    Myanmar

    As thousands of Karen wait in resettlement camps, others already settled in foreign lands discover new challenges to their future...

    Heh Nay Thaw has lived in refugee camps in Thailand for nearly a quarter-century since he crossed the border from Burma with his family at age five. He is now 29, with a wife and two children, and the long years of waiting for a permanent home may soon be over.

    Like many of his fellow Karen, Heh Nay Thaw gave up hope that he could ever return to Karen State and applied for resettlement outside Asia—possibly in the US.

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