JUBA , Jun 27 2013 (IPS) – Since age 18, Zechariah Manyok Biar fought in the revolutionary army that won South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in July 2011. But now the 28-year-old is in exile from the country he helped liberate.

The former civil servant from the South Sudanese Ministry of Roads and Bridges wrote opinion pieces critical of the government that were published on the Paris-based Sudan Tribune’s website. Biar was forced to flee South Sudan in December 2012 after receiving information that members of the country’s security forces were planning to kill him.

FULL STORY: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/south-sudans-state-actors-turn-on-journalists-and-aid-workers/

YANGON, June 27 (Reuters) – Norway’s Telenor and Qatar’s Ooredoo won licences on Thursday to provide telecommunications services inMyanmar, bringing foreign companies across one of the world’s last telecoms frontiers.

FULL STORY: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/27/myanmar-telecoms-idUSL3N0F312M20130627