Myanmar's junta announced Sunday it had begun a pilot census in 20 townships across the divided country, a move critics say will be used to increase surveillance of opponents.
BY AFP
U Wai Yan Heinn, the publisher and editor of Iron News, was found knifed to death at his Yangon office last Sunday.
Authorities in India confiscated gold worth about US$543,000 (K735 million) earlier this month in the latest seizure of the precious metal being smuggled into the country from Myanmar, media reports said.
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