updated Fri. February 2, 2024
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The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 22, 2018
... according to the law on emoluments, allowances and insignia for union-level officials enacted by the State Peace and Development Council. ... According to the law on security for former presidents of Myanmar, which took effect during the U Thein Sein government, the Home Affairs Ministry will provideÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 15, 2018
YANGON — Since gaining independence from the British in 1948, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) has been governed by two types of president. ... Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) to the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), led by military men like Senior General Than Shwe.
Frontier Myanmar
March 14, 2018
No, it's not the lyrics to a hit pop song – it's a propaganda tune from the State Peace and Development Council period that will be familiar to anyone who ... are almost gone … and masses of fishes in the Nga Won river have been killed by the plant's wastewater,” the Myanmar Times quoted him as saying.
ReliefWeb
March 13, 2018
Burma/Myanmar government state leaders have authorised the Lu Pleh Township administrator and the Ta Kreh town administrator to cooperate with the .... Kaw Koh, Hpa-an District, which split from the Karen National Union (KNU) and signed a ceasefire agreement with the SPDC government in 2007.
The Market Mogul
March 8, 2018
Most recently, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited Burma as part of his four-day tour of Asia and met with Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the current ... which was crafted by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the name of the military government that ruled Myanmar from 1990 to 2010.
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 5, 2018
YANGON — More than 500 locals in Kachin State's Myitkyina took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the draft Myanmar Gemstone Law 2017, stating that ... The law was enacted in 1995 and was amended for the first time in 2003 under the State Peace and Development Council government and for aÃâà...
Asia Times
February 24, 2018
Myanmar's restive Rakhine state was riven with more violence early Saturday morning (February 24) when three small bombs detonated in the state capital of Sittwe. The bombs, one of which exploded at the residential compound of the powerful state secretary Tin Maung Swe, and two other devices in theÃâà...
Asia Times
February 7, 2018
In April 2007, North Korea and Myanmar finally reestablished formal diplomatic relations. In November the following year, General Thura Shwe Mann, a leading member of the then ruling junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), paid a secret visit to Pyongyang where he and his delegationÃâà...
Myanmar Times
January 15, 2018
Maung Zaw/The Myanmar Times. Petition seeks to ... According to the pagoda trustee's records, the stupa was changed to a golden robe (golden color) at a cost of K354 million after a visit to the pagoda in 2010 by then-chair of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) senior general Than Shwe.
Jacobin magazine
January 12, 2018
Burma — officially known as Myanmar — celebrated the seventieth anniversary of its independence at a moment when the failures of its incomplete ..... fall called itself the State Order and Law Restoration Council (SLORC), changing its name to the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) in 1997.
Burma News International
December 8, 2017
Significantly, they did not only talk about peaceful relations between the governing bodies—the State Peace and Development Council (the ruling military authority from 1988-2010) and the NLD. Instead, they emphasized reconciliation between all native peoples of Myanmar (Burma). Specifically, they focused on theÃâà...
AsiaOne
September 10, 2017
Her famous clients included former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and General Than Shwe, the former Myanmar strongman politician who was the head of state of Burma (now Myanmar) from 1992 to 2011 as chairman of the State Peace and Development Council. She reportedly earned aboutÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
August 15, 2017
Frustration boils over after Myanmar's ruling military junta -- the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) – significantly raises the price of fuel. Bus service in ... The All-Burma Monks' Alliance issues a statement warning the junta of plans to boycott alms and offerings due to violence against monks. SB: a leading monkÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Some teachers asserted that the KNU should [financially] support the schools even if the Burma/Myanmar government does not. ... from 1988 to 1997 and SPDC (State Peace and Development Council) from 1998 to 2011, which were the Tatmadaw-proclaimed names of the military government of Burma.
