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More than 1,000 people in Burma’s second-largest city have held a protest against severe power cuts, residents told AFP, the country’s biggest public demonstration in five years.

Source: DVB

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The United States has eased some sanctions on investment and relations with Burma in response to political reform there.

Source: BBC

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The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) says it will review the ethnic cease-fire agreements reached with the Burmese government if the government does not halt military offensives in Kachin State by June 10.

Source: Mizzima

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Around 2,500 Rohingya refugees who had been camped out in front of the Indian office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in New Delhi’s upscale Vasant Vihar neighborhood have been forced to leave. The presence of the refugees, who had been in the Indian capital for about a month, met with growing resistance from local residents. Last week, most moved to an open area in Sultan Garhi, the site of a mausoleum, but were also met with protests there. The refugees are demanding full recognition by the UNHCR.

Source: The Irrawaddy

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The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) will hold its next meeting in Rangoon this June in another transitional landmark for Burma’s reformist government that nonetheless stands accused of ongoing human rights abuses.

Source: The Irrawaddy

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