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Win Tin, 80, a senior National League for Democracy (NLD) leader, underwent an operation for a heart condition at a private clinic in Rangoon on Sunday. Family members said he is good condition. Win T…
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BANGKOK — An American man who was sentenced in Myanmar last week to seven years of hard labor for intruding at the home of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader, was released Sunday an…
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BANGKOK, Aug. 17 (AP) – (Kyodo)—U.S. Sen. Jim Webb said Monday after a visit to Myanmar that Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has indicated she does not oppose lifting some of the sanc…
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By Brian McCartan BANGKOK – United States Senator Jim Webb’s trip to military ruled Myanmar highlights again the difficulties of dealing with the ruling generals and brings into focus the debat…
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(CNSNews.com) – One swam in, invited, while the other flew in and was permitted a 45-minute meeting, but as far as some Burma advocates are concerned neither the exploits of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb n…
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The American who was jailed in Myanmar after swimming to the home of detained Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been set free after a visit from a US senator.
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When John Yettaw boarded a plane in Rangoon yesterday morning the American Senator who secured his release hailed the moment as a possible first step towards better relations between Burma and the W…
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The first private-run international-level shopping center, “Junction Center Nay Pyi Taw” opened in Myanmar’s new capital Nay Pyi Taw Sunday. Jointly inaugurated by First Secretary of the Sta…
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U.S. Senator Jim Webb, who won the release of an American prisoner in Burma, says the United States must develop new ways to bring about political and economic change in the isolated state. Senator We…
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END: Module – M24 Article Headline with no image –> BEGIN: Module – Main Article –> First it was Bill Clinton in North Korea, escorting home two scared US journalists from the clutch…
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By AMBIKA AHUJAAssociated Press Writer BANGKOK (AP) – Myanmar freed an ailing American whom it had sentenced to seven years of hard labor and handed him to an influential U.S senator on Sunday, a mov… KTNV |
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When John Yettaw boarded a plane in Rangoon yesterday morning, the American senator who secured his release hailed the moment as a possible first step towards better relations between Burma and the We…
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Burma has released to the United States an ailing American who was sentenced to seven years of hard labour for secretly entering the house of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. John Yettaw, …
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AP, SEPANG, MALAYSIA Monday, Aug 17, 2009, Page 4 A growing number of immigrants from Myanmar are ending up stuck, often for months, in crowded detention centers in Malaysia designed to hold peopl… Taipei Times |
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John Yettaw of Falcon, Missouri, steps from the plane as he arrives in Bangkok on a US government plane in this image taken from TV Sunday Aug. 16, 2009. Yettaw was imprisoned in Myanmar for sneaking … NPR |
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Myanmar for sneaking into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the country Sunday after a visiting U.S. senator won his release. John Yettaw of Falcon, Missouri, arrived …
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He earlier talked with regime leader Than Shwe and was allowed to visit imprisoned democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, rare gestures by the junta that might signal new willingness to negotiate some nor… The Australian |
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after years of advocating economic isolation. After realizing that sanctions have done little to dislodge the generals, “she wants to comprise,” says Nyo Ohn Myint, a former close aide to Suu Kyi a…
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YANGON — U.S. Senator Jim Webb met Myanmar top military leader Than Shwe and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday and announced the release of an American jailed for visiting the Nobel peac…
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Bangkok – US Senator Jim Webb on Sunday expressed gratitude to Myanmar’s junta for freeing an American national whose “regrettable” swim to the house of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in May provi…
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