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Burma’s detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will support United States plans to engage with the isolated nation but only if opposition groups are involved in any dialogue, her party said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Myanmar has asked Chinese citizens to leave a border area where fighting between government troops and rebel militias pushed tens of thousands of refugees into China last month, Ch…
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Hillary Clinton The United States will pursue deeper engagement with Myanmar’s military rulers to try to spur democratic reform but will not ease sanctions for now, US Secretary of State Hillary C…
One News
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Yangon (Myanmar), Sep 25 : Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has backed the Obama administration’s initiative to carry out talks with Burma’s rulers.
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Scientists and government leaders have already started mapping out how to try to improve the world’s first successful AIDS vaccine, which protected one in three people from getting HIV in a large …
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Yangon – Myanmar’s central bank has issued a new 5,000-kyat bill that is to go into circulation Thursday, state media reported. The bank’s announcement Friday of its release of Myanmar’s highest denom…
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(AP) — KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – An official says six Myamnar migrants have died while in detention in Malaysia because of a suspected waterborne disease caused by rat urine. The immigration de…
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Washington — Ahead of announcing the results of its policy review on Burma, the Obama administration says it will be directly engaging the country’s military regime in addition to continuing U.S. …
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(RTTNews) – Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed U.S. plans for direct high-level diplomatic engagement with Burma’s military rulers, said her lawyer on Thursday.According to Su…
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The US citizen detained upon arrival in Burma earlier this month has allegedly been beaten and denied food for over a week, according to his mother who spoke to US embassy staff.
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All militia groups formed by the Burmese Army have been told to expand its forces since relations between Naypyitaw and the ethnic armed groups that had been at truce soured, according to reports filt…
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The shop names are in Chinese and the shopkeepers only accept the Chinese yuan. A suggestion of a meeting at 4 o’clock is met with a question: “Burma time or China time?” Mong La is the capital…
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Yangon, Myanmar — Myanmar announced Thursday it will soon introduce a 5,000-kyat bank note, the country’s highest-denomination currency.
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A mass infestation of rats in western Burma is likely to compound a food shortage in a state that has lost thousands of acres of crops over the past two years, according to local aid workers.
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Jakarta – ASEAN foreign ministers will consider a proposed joint appeal for the release of Myanmar’s [Burma] detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi when they meet this weekend in New York,…
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On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the United States would pursue engagement but maintain the economic sanctions that have been put in place to punish the government of …
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Pittsburgh, USA — Several protest groups staged demonstrations around the city Thursday and a protesters’ coalition planned an unpermitted march called a “People’s Uprising” …
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No country has a bigger historical responsibility to Burma than Japan. Aung San, leader of the Burmese struggle for independence from British colonialism in the late 1930s and 1940s, was given militar…
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Veteran politicians and daughters of former cabinet members, such as Thu Wai, Mya Than Than Nu, Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein and Nay Chi Ba Swe, announced at a press conference in Rangoon on Sept. 14 that they …
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“The 2010 elections may result in a crucial passage for the future of Burma and to this end, no effort should be spared towards the creation of favourable conditions for them to be conducted in a fr…
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — U.S. Senator Jim Webb, who advocates closer ties to Myanmar, had talks with the country’s Foreign Minister Nyan Win last weekend, Jessica Smith, the Democratic lawmake…
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NEW YORK – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama Administration has decided to engage in direct high-level talks with Myanmar’s junta as part of international efforts to promote dem…
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 23:07 New Delhi (Mizzima) – Washington’s preview of its Burma policy that will include engaging the Burmese generals has been received with mixed reactions with some sayi…
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