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Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his ruling Democrat Party dodged a legal bullet Monday when the country’s Constitutional Court dismissed on technicalities the first two cases of election fraud that could have seen the party dissolved...
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BANGKOK — Myanmar’s leading dissident, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was reunited with her youngest son on Tuesday after a decade-long separation during which he was not...
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AHN News Staff
Yangon, Myanmar (AHN) - Myanmarese authorities have shown door to more than 80 patients and staff of an AIDS shelter days after they gave a red-carpet...
made popular Nov 22 2010
A key United Nations committee on Thursday condemned Myanmar’s human rights record while the secretary-general of the world body stressed the need for democratic...
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The release of Aung San Suu Kyi by Myanmar’s military government last weekend was welcomed by her supporters and everyone around the world who cherishes freedom....
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Burma’s newly freed democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is back at work but this is far from a “Mandela moment” in heralding a new era for the people of...
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By Steve Finch and John Pomfret
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, November 15, 2010; 9:43 PM
RANGOON, BURMA - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday...
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RANGOON, BURMA - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi promised Sunday to seek political compromise with the Burmese regime that has detained her for 15 of the past 21...
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(CNN) — Myanmar’s military junta plans to release political activist Aung San Suu Kyi, but the timing is undecided, an official with the country’s...
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A senior member of Myanmar’s military-backed party says it has so far captured 75 percent of parliamentary seats in the country’s...
made popular Nov 11 2010
Thailand said all of the 20,000 people who fled across the border from Myanmar after fighting broke out following the Nov. 7 election have been returned.
“The...
made popular Nov 10 2010
(CNN) — Thousands of refugees have begun voluntarily returning to Myanmar from Thailand, after learning that fighting between Myanmarese government forces and a...
made popular Nov 9 2010
The Chinese ’string of pearls’ could well choke India one day if it’s not careful. After strategic projects in Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, China...
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The BBC is locked in talks with the government over drastic cuts to the World Service budget which could force it to withdraw from Burma and several other...
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Burma has started on a nuclear-weapons programme, according to a documentary based on evidence from a soldier who defected.
Major Sai Thein Win provided Norway-based...
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At least nine people were killed and 50 wounded in three explosions at a new year water festival in the former Myanmar capital of Yangon on Thursday, witnesses and...
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Burma’s government has introduced new laws barring hundreds of thousands of people from meaningfully participating in the elections expected this Autumn. The main...
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Aung San Suu Kyi is against registering her opposition party for Myanmar’s upcoming elections because the ruling junta’s restrictions on the vote are...
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Myanmar’s Supreme Court rejected Friday an appeal by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to overturn her house arrest.
A diplomat who attended the hearing and...
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On the first morning of each New Year, hundreds of people come to pray on the banks of the Irrawaddy River in northern Burma.
This year, they prayed that their...
made popular Feb 1 2010
Myanmar’s ruling junta chief confirmed Monday that the country’s first general elections in two decades will be held this year but gave no date for the...
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Conquering armies of centuries past avoided this remote, mountainous area along the present-day border with China, a place once described by a British colonial official...
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Previewing the new US Burma policy with the 17-member UN Group of Friends on Burma in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US will pursue a policy of...
made popular Sep 24 2009
Virginia’s senior Senator Jim Webb, a fmr. Secretary of the Navy, has secured the release of an American, John Yettaw, held in Myanmar by the ruling junta.
Mr....
made popular Aug 17 2009
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was Tuesday ordered to serve another 18 months under house arrest after a court convicted the Nobel laureate at the end of her...
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The Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is facing an almost certain criminal conviction and a sentence of up to five years in prison when a Rangoon court delivers...
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As the clock ticks towards noon, the Sky Cafe in Rangoon’s shabby Daubon Township starts to fill up. Young women carrying babies, men from the bicycle repair shop...
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The recent aborted voyage of a North Korean ship, photographs of massive tunnels and a top secret meeting have raised alarm bells that one of the world’s poorest...
made popular Jul 21 2009
US President Barack Obama has called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
In a written statement,...
made popular May 27 2009
There is an uproar in the world over indicting Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. However, nine Nobel peace prize recipients are bearing the torch...
made popular May 19 2009
Isn’t it ridiculous that the world lauds and celebrates the awarding of the Nobel Pace Prizes, but at what cost and what commitment?
Aung San Suu Kyi Has spent the...
made popular May 12 2009
By Ashin Metacarra
The United Nations has been diplomatically trying to persuade Burma leaders for a long time. They tried by sending envoys. They talked with beautiful...
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More than six weeks have passed since Cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta in southern Myanmar, leaving a trail of flattened villages and broken lives and...
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Tens of thousands of people killed in last month’s cyclone may never be identified because their bodies have decomposed so badly and many ended up far from home,...
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Women around the world have launched an ambitious international program entitled \’Panties for Peace\’ in which they would donate panties to the Burmese...
made popular May 31 2008
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will travel to Myanmar this week to try to speed up troubled cyclone relief, his spokeswoman said on Sunday, as signs mounted of a...
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The world has seen some major disasters over last few weeks. First was the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (I don’t really know why do they come up with sweet feminine...
made popular May 17 2008
A new constitution proposed by Burma’s military rulers has been overwhelmingly approved in a referendum, according to the country’s state-run media.
The...
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Cyclone survivors in Burma are still begging for help. The international community cannot expect anything positive from a government that failed to even warn its...
made popular May 16 2008
It is a disaster still shrouded in secrecy. The world is growing accustomed to seeing images of devastation, from earthquakes or calamitous storms, as they unfold. Here...
made popular May 15 2008
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Irrawaddy Delta:
Young boys play near a pond as bent power poles can be seen in the background Saturday, April 11, 2009, in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delata region which was devastated by Cyclone Nargis a year ago. Nature has concealed the scars in this tangle of narrow...
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