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The Nation and Bangkok post (23/6/9



News headlines

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1:) Restive Burma campus resumes some classes

2:) Myawaddy trading set to resume soon

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<bold>1:) Restive Burma campus resumes some classes

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<italic>Associated Press

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Rangoon- Classes have resumed after a year and half suspension at the
engineering Institute where student unrest in 1996 led to the closing of
the country's universities, students said yesterday.

	Classes for final-year students at the Rangoon Institute of Technology
resumed last Thursday after authorities mailed notices of the reopening
to students. More than 700 students there are expected to sit for their
final examinations in July.

	Classes for final-year medical students in the capital resumed in May,
and they are now taking their final exams.

	It was not known when other educational activities would resume.

	All universities and colleges I Rangoon was closed indefinitely during
the December 1996 unrest.

Educational institutions in other parts of the country	, unaffected by
the unrest, continued their classes and held their 1997 final
examinations. They did not, however, reopen for the following school
year.

	In February, a spokesman for the military government of Burma said it
might reopen universities within six months.

	Reopening the universities would be important to Burma's struggling
economy and the government's image abroad, where its military regime has
been widely condemned for Human Rights abuses and the stifling of Nobel
Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy movement. 

	However, students have spearheaded most political protest movements in
Burma since before World War II, when it was a British colony, and the
government highly values stability and other.

	The 1996 protests began when police reportedly beat some students from
the Rangoon Institute of Technology involved in a dispute with a
restaurant owner.

	The demonstrators demanded more civil liberties and took their protests
to the streets, where they eventually clashed with riot police.

	-----------The Nation News ---------------------


<bold>2:) Myawaddy trading set to resume soon

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Cross-border trading between Mae Sot and Burma's Myawaddy, suspended
since late November, is likely to resume soon after the Thai army chief's
meeting with a top Burmese military leader to clear some
misunderstanding, a military source said yesterday.

	The source said Gen Chettha Thanajaro recently raised the border trade
issue in an informal discussion with Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, first secretary
of Burma's State Peace and Development Council, who reportedly said
cross-border trading between the two countries could resume soon.

	The army chief, who regards Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt as his closest foreign
military colleague, was also hopeful the Thai-Burmese friendship bridge,
which has been closed since April 14, would be reopened soon, the source
said.


	-----------	Bangkok post News---------------