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Tuesday | Stars and Stripes

A living memory of bonds between Myanmar, US

She broke her hip a while back and now uses a four-pronged cane to navigate through her home in this slowly modernizing city near the China border.

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Sat Apr 27, 2013

The Nation

Press freedom still not living up to the law, seminar told

Although Myanmar's press freedom has flourished over the past two years, with criticism of wrongdoers now fair game, any criticism of the country's top leaders is still a taboo, said Aye Chan Naing, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Democratic Voice of Burma .

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Fri Apr 26, 2013

The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine

The Dictators: Part 8 - Khin Nyunt Overplays his Hand

This is the eighth installment in the The Dictators series by The Irrawaddy that delves into the lives and careers of Burma's two most infamous military chiefs and the cohorts that surrounded them.

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