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DEMOCRATIC VOICE OF BURMA, WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: 22 to 28 Jan 2011

Inside Burma

Political prisoners 'given amphetamine'
Intelligence officers alleged to be drugging political prisoners
in order to disorientate them during interrogation phase

Woman found after 40-year enslavement
Tin Tin Aye said to be severely traumatised after being abducted at
the age of nine and locked in a shed behind a house for four decades

Burma to create SEZ, spur growth
China's success story in Shenzhen seen by many as a possible
benchmark for new business growth in Burma's southern Tavoy area

Media laws obscuring parliament
Foreign and domestic reporters unclear about access to first session
as laws ban all electronic devices from entering parliament building

Regional

Exiled print press goes quiet
Influential news group The Irrawaddy becomes latest victim of
global recession as funding cuts force it to stop print magazine

Burma's health woes traversing borders
Preventable diseases spilling over into neighbouring countries as
medical experts warn of impending headache for regional health system

International

Burma blasted at UN meeting
Sweden calls Burma's human rights record 'alarming' as 47-nation
assembly holds its first regular review of conditions in the pariah

DVB TV

Families abducted

Interview

Nic Dunlop: 'We must understand the junta'

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