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Lashio Stable but Tense after Yoma Bank Bombing

Topix 23 Feb 2018

Local residents in Lashio reported that the situation there had stabilized Thursday following a bomb blast at a Yoma Bank branch on Wednesday that killed two people and wounded 21, though many residents expressed concerns about security as authorities conducted checks and patrols around the town in northern Shan State ... .

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Two killed, 11 injured, by bomb in Myanmar city of Lashio - police

Topix 22 Feb 2018

YANGON. A bomb explosion on Wednesday in Myanmar's northeastern city of Lashio killed two bank workers and injured 11 people, the government said. Police said they were investigating but had no word on possible suspects ... .

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Two dead, 22 hurt from bomb blast in northeast Myanmar city Lashio

Topix 22 Feb 2018

YANGON. A bomb blast killed two bank employees and injured 22 other people in Myanmar's northeastern city of Lashio on Wednesday, the government and the military said. Police said an investigation was under way but would not elaborate on whether there were any suspects in the attack ... .

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Two killed, 11 injured, by bomb in Myanmar city of Lashio: police

Topix 21 Feb 2018

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Two killed, 11 injured by bomb in Myanmar city of Lashio: Police

The Himalayan 21 Feb 2018

A bomb explosion on Wednesday in Myanmar’s northeastern city of Lashio killed two bank workers and injured 11 people, the government said ... We just received a (local) police report about the bomb blast in Lashio this evening,” police spokesman Colonel Thet Naing based in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw told Reuters by phone.

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Mandalay-Lashio Train: Slow but sure is fun

Topix 25 Sep 2017

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‘This Will Be the Worst War’: Fears of Mass Displacement as Thousands Flee Conflict in ...

Time Magazine 09 Mar 2017

Powdered with red dust after hours on open-air flatbed trucks through mountain roads, they enter Lashio, the largest city in Myanmar’s Shan state ... Most, if not all, of the displaced people arriving in Lashio — about 100 miles southwest of Laukkai— are migrant workers from Myanmar’s central plains.

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Top End Minerals Announces Proposed Acquisition of High Grade Long Keng Zinc Mine and Lashio Zinc Refinery in Myanmar and Capital Raising – 11/25/2016 (Top End Minerals Ltd)

Public Technologies 24 Nov 2016

Top End Minerals Announces Proposed Acquisition of High Grade Long Keng Zinc Mine and Lashio Zinc Refinery in Myanmar. Option acquired to purchase 60% interest in Cornerstone Resources (Myanmar) Ltd (CRML) which holds the Long Keng Zinc Mine and Lashio Zinc Refinery in Myanmar for US$43 million.

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Challenges faced by Lashio candidates in Myanmar elections

Topix 06 Nov 2015

Myanmar vice president Sai Mawn Kham arrives to meet with residents at a temporary refugee camp at a monastery in Lashio, AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THU LASHIO, Myanmar ... Aside from trying to win over voters and for them to remember the various political party logos on Polling Day, some candidates in Lashio are also facing another challenge ... .

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The Irrawaddy Lashio works to build trust – Zarni Mann

Big News Network 27 Apr 2015

It was just the latest challenge for local leaders who for almost two years have been working quietly behind the scenes to mend the fallout from a previous crisis to hit the town. In May ... .

photo: AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe

A Muslim family arrive at a Buddhist temple following sectarian violence in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar, Thursday, May 30, 2013.

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Myanmar Muslims find shelter in Buddhist monastery

The Guardian 31 May 2013

Associated Press= LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — More than 1,000 Muslims who fled Myanmar's latest bout of sectarian violence huddled in a Buddhist monastery guarded by army soldiers as calm returned to this northeastern city, though burnt out buildings leveled by Buddhist rioters still smoldered ... He said all those arrested were from Lashio.

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Burma's Buddhist mobs sow fear amid widening unrest

The Guardian 30 May 2013

Buddhists maraud through Lashio, where Muslim-owned businesses were attacked ... Two days of violence in the city of Lashio have cast fresh doubt over whether President Thein Sein's government can or will act to contain the racial and religious intolerance plaguing a nation still struggling to emerge from half a century of military rule.

photo: AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe

Buddhists armed with sticks walk in the streets of in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 29, 2013.

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Buddhist mobs spread fear among Myanmar's Muslims

The Guardian 30 May 2013

Associated Press= LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — It was a terrifying sight ... The violence over the past two days in the northeastern city of Lashio is casting ... The rioting in Lashio started Tuesday after reports that a Muslim man had splashed gasoline on a Buddhist woman and set her on fire.

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In pictures: Violence in Burma's Lashio

BBC News 29 May 2013

The northern Burmese town of Lashio ... The unrest in Lashio follows violence in western and central regions that has forced tens of thousands of Muslims from their homes.