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AP – In this Aug. 14, 2009 image taken from a video footage shot by MRTV via APTN, U.S. Senator Jim Webb, …
YANGON, Myanmar – U.S. Sen. Jim Webb met with Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday, the first foreign official allowed to see her since the [...]
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By Jason Warick, Saskatoon StarPhoenix :August 13, 2009
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French energy giant accused of profiting as new testimony gives shocking insight into junta’s labour regime
The Independant : By Rajeshree Sisodia and Andrew Buncombe, Asia correspondent
Friday, 14 August 2009
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Protest groups such as Burma Campaign UK believe Total should cut its links with the Burmese regime.
The French energy giant Total is at the centre [...]
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US senator flies into Myanmar to meet top general
A US Senator has arrived in Myanmar to meet military ruler Than Shwe.
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US senator visits Myanmar for talks
Yangon, Aug 14 (Xinhua) US Senator Jim Webb has arrived in Myanmar to hold talks with the country’s military leadership, according to an [...]
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BBC News
US Senator Jim Webb has met Burmese military ruler Than Shwe, Burmese officials say.
He is the most senior US official to meet Than Shwe, the Democratic senator’s office said in a statement.
He visits days after pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest for 18 more months.
Adding to international condemnation, the [...]
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YANGON (AFP) – “Mr Yettaw is likely to be deported after the visit by the US Senator. They will not leave together,” a Myanmar official said on condition of anonymity. US Senator Jim Webb began historic talks with Myanmar junta leader Than Shwe Saturday, becoming the first senior Washington official to meet the head of the military regime, officials said.
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by John Lee
- John Lee is a foreign policy fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney and a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington. His most recent book is Will China Fail?
SINGAPORE – Not a week passes, it seems, without a big-picture thinker releasing a big-picture book [...]
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Posted in Campaigns & posters on Aug 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Thursday, 13 August 2009 17:30 Hseng Khio Fah
Again, overseas Shan rights groups are on calling the Burmese military immediately stop its atrocities and also on the international and regional communities to end their silence and set up an investation team on the regime’s crimes against humanity.
Since 27 July, Burma Army units under the [...]
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AP – Administration OK’d senator’s trip to Myanmar
AP – US senator arrives Myanmar for talks with leaders
AP – Myanmar’s media lauds Suu Kyi’s 18-month detention
Reuters – EU strengthens Myanmar sanctions over Suu Kyi trial
Bloomberg – UN Tells Myanmar to Open Talks; U.S. Senator Visits
Xinhua – Myanmar PM meets U.S. senator
UPI [...]
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UN voices “serious concerns” over Aung San Suu Kyi’s
U.S. Senator in Myanmar to Meet Leader
Free Suu Kyi: Find effective means to punish Burma’s military junta
Asean To Seek Pardon For Suu Kyi
What can Jim Webb achieve in Burma?
EU Sanctions Target Burmese State-run Media
Washington Hopes Webb Can Clarify Its Policy to Junta
US Senator Jim Webb in Myanmar [...]
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August 11, 2009 : Htun Aung Gyaw
The Wall street journal article “Myanmar Dissidents Contemplate Concession” on August 11, 2009, made me smile. I have been fighting against the regime since December of 1974 student strike called U Thant uprising. As a senior politician, I know the mentality of the regime and the opposition that I [...]
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August 13th 2008 : Ottawa, Canada
This Tuesday August 18 the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) is set to deport Nay Myo Hein, a former Burmese child soldier and Saskatoon resident back to Burma. The Canadian Friends of Burma strongly disagrees with Nay Myo Hein’s Pre-Risk Removal Assessment (PRRA) which concluded that “There is no serious [...]
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Poem by Ko Ko Aung
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Birmingham city centre protest over Burmese leader’s punishment
Burma’s Suu Kyi rips court verdict
Malta government saddened and dismayed at Suu Kyi sentence
US senator set for historic meet with Myanmar ruler
Suu Kyi condemns ‘totally unfair’ conviction
ASEAN in fix over Myanmar
U.S. senator to meet with Burma junta leaders
UN Human Rights Chief Calls For Release
UK supports Thai stance on [...]