Myanmar activists face legal action over fuel hike protest
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Myanmar&#39;s junta was interrogating 13 activists arrested for organising a rally against the regime over its massive hike in fuel prices ahead of likely legal action, state media said Saturday.
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Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches.
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Myanmar's junta has charged social activist Ko Htin Kyaw, arrested in August for staging a two-man protest against declining living conditions, with "public mischief", his lawyer said on Thursday.
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Myanmar's military junta broadcast warnings on Tuesday that included the possibility of using military force to disperse what it called unlawful street protests.
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Friends of the Earth says it will start a legal challenge over the sale of GM-contaminated rice in UK stores.
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Pro-government gangs on trucks staked out key streets in Myanmar's largest city on Wednesday as the country's military rulers sought to crush a rare wave of dissent by pro-democracy activists protesting fuel price increases.
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Myanmar's military junta said on Wednesday it had used tear gas and fired warning shots to disperse a crowd of 1,000 Buddhist monks and civilians protesting in the northwestern coastal city of Sittwe.
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Burmese police beat protesters including monks at a pagoda at the heart of anti-junta unrest, reports say.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Defying international calls to relent, Myanmar's junta is still hunting down activists involved in September's monk-led protests, causing scores to flee to Thailand, fugitives and aid workers said on Wednesday.
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Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Yangon on Monday in the biggest demonstration against Myanmar's ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests 20 years ago.
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About 200 Buddhist monks staged a brief demonstration in Myanmar on Friday, the fourth day of protests in the country, witnesses said. A day earlier, nearly 1,000 monks and thousands of citizens marched, the largest challenge in a decade to the iron-fisted junta that rules the nation.
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Myanmar soldiers and police cracked down hard on the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years, sealing off the Shwedagon Pagoda, firing tear gas and arresting up to 200 monks on Wednesday.
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The dissident leader of fuel price protests in Burma a week ago has been arrested, following a police operation.
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Myanmar's ruling generals accused exile dissident groups on Friday of fomenting two weeks of rare protests and signaled there would be no let up in efforts to crush them despite harsh U.S. and European Union criticism.
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Military-run Myanmar put on a show of defiance Friday on the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain amid global pressure for reform following the junta's bloody crackdown on dissent.
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Human rights groups use Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday to call for her release.
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Tens of thousands of people joined  Buddhist monks on marches in Myanmar&#39;s former capital on Monday  in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since  they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.