LFM Service 10-26-18

Gov’t Looks East to Revive Flagging Foreign Investment
Looking to arrest a two-year decline in foreign investment, the government plans to hold a summit targeting investors from East Asia before the end of the year, a senior economic official said.  Read More

Clashes erupt between military, KNPP in Kayah
Clashes erupted between the Tatmadaw (military) and fighters of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) in Kayah State on Saturday, according to an officer of the armed ethnic group. 

Khu Nye Reh, a KNPP internal affairs official, said the fighting occurred between Nan Kit village and Bahan Lok village in Hpasawng Township after Tatmadaw forces allegedly entered the group’s territory without notification.   Read More

Burma’s Beleaguered Baptists
They drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homeland from 2016 to 2017. Now many of the same Burmese troops that purged southwest Myanmar have moved north to another beleaguered religious and ethnic minority: the Christian Kachin.  Read More

Myanmar, partners to build 1500 shelters for refugees’ return to northern Rakhine
Over 1500 shelters for displaced people will be built in northern Rakhine State by the Myanmar government, state and regional governments, international agencies, non-governmental groups and the Indian government, said U Nyi Pu chief minister of Rakhine.  Read More

Trump refugee cuts slow resurgence of cities like Buffalo
When thousands of others fled the struggling Rust Belt city of Buffalo, refugees poured in to fill the void and invigorate the economy.  Read More

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