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Source > Ben Blanchard/Reuters
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:50
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Ask residents of the dusty Chinese border town of Ruili what they think of their neighbor and supposed friend Myanmar (Burma) and one word features prominently -- "luan," or chaotic...
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News Analysis
Source > Sydney Prabhu/Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:14
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The Burmese arms buildup is not the dream child of a megalomaniac or errant general. It is a carefully orchestrated move by the Chinese to have an offensive front against India ...
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Source > Zin Linn/OpEdNews
Tuesday, 19 January 2010 10:38
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ASEAN is seemingly committed to accelerating economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the South-East Asia region, to strengthen the institution for a thriving ...
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Source > KELLEY CURRIE/Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, 19 January 2010 10:27
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Delhi should be more clever about using its own values and role as a regional leader to press for political reform. Burma is back in the news amid reports ...
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Source > BA KAUNG/The Irrawaddy
Thursday, 07 January 2010 19:37
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Burmese military supremo Than Shwe's reaffirmation in an Independence Day speech on Monday of his plan to hold a general election this year failed to clear away any of the political fog that has shrouded Burma for months past.
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News Analysis
Source > WAI MOE/The Irrawaddy
Thursday, 07 January 2010 19:26
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As Burma gears up for elections to be held sometime later this year, the country's military junta is moving ahead with plans to transfer ownership of key industries to business firms closely associated with the ruling generals.
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Source > WAI MOE/The Irrawaddy
Friday, 16 October 2009 23:16
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Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), has adopted what it calls a “survival policy” for years. But, ahead of the 2010 election, the issue of whether the party continues ... |
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Editorial
Source > Bangkok Post
Friday, 16 October 2009 07:02
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There is no question about it. Thailand needs to solve the problem of underground migrant workers, now estimated at 3 million strong. The challenge is how to do it right... |
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Source > Zin Linn/United Press International
Thursday, 15 October 2009 17:08
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Last week Burmese leader Than Shwe allowed detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet Western diplomats, at her request, to talk about the sanctions imposed on the military regime... |
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Source > SIMON ROUGHNEEN/The Irrawaddy
Thursday, 13 August 2009 22:42
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As Aung San Suu Kyi returns to face another 18 months of house arrest, regional and global reactions have followed, highlighting a lack of international unity on her conviction and return to house arrest.
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Source > Garry Woodard/The Age
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:55
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what if Aung San Suu Kyi, whose sentence of 18 months will keep her incommunicado and out of politics while the junta stage manages ''elections'' in 2010, had taken government after her party won a free election in 1990? ...
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Source > Bill Tarrant/Reuters
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:51
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A spate of reports that North Korea may be helping fellow pariah state Myanmar join the nuclear club has underlined concerns over Pyongyang's proliferation activities since it renounced disarmament talks and tested a bomb...
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News Analysis
Source > SIMON ROUGHNEEN/The Irrawaddy
Monday, 10 August 2009 22:14
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While there is no hard evidence to demonstrate that the Burmese regime in Naypyidaw has been seeking to acquire or develop nuclear weapons, the circumstantial evidence is worrying when North Korea's track record is taken into account...
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Source > AUNG ZAW/The Irrawaddy
Friday, 31 July 2009 20:01
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Did astrologers advise Snr-Gen Than Shwe to postpone the verdict in the trial of opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi? Or was it a ploy by Than Shwe, a former psychological warfare officer, to buy more time? Or did Chinese leaders tell the Burmese to postpone the ruling?...
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Source > Meghan Cox Gurdon/The San Francisco Examiner
Thursday, 30 July 2009 16:47
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It takes no courage to praise one of the bravest and most determined women in Asia. It takes a great deal of courage — and unbelievable grit — to be her. On Friday, Aung San Suu Kyi, the elegant face of suppressed Burmese democracy, will hear whether she faces five more years of detention...
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Source > THANIDA TANSUBHAPOL/Bangkok Post
Monday, 27 July 2009 13:55
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The Burma and North Korea issues have been in the spotlight at Asean meetings for more than a decade. The "issues" vary from meeting to meeting, depending on what is happening with these countries at the time...
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Source > AUNG ZAW/Wall Street Journal Asia
Friday, 10 July 2009 03:09
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The North Korean ship that tried to steam to Burma last month isn't the only problem facing the U.S. and its allies. There's a much broader military relationship growing between the two pariah states -- one that poses a growing threat to stability in Asia-Pacific...
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Source > Joe Fleishman/AmericanChronicle
Friday, 17 April 2009 12:09
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the largest nation in South East Asia and one of the poorest nations in the world. But it was not always like this. It had a bright past which ends up in the darkness of poverty. All the wealth that Myanmar had has swollen by their military lead government...
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Source > Kavi Chongkittavorn/The Nation
Monday, 05 January 2009 23:03
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Thai side allowed the Burmese side greater leeway along the 2004-km border such as issues related to Burmese migrant workers, illegal cross-border activities and harassment of ...
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