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MorungExpress
November 20, 2009
The new
strategy has seen
China work most closely with the region's authoritarian regimes, most notably with
Myanmar.
Beijing's soft-power efforts have ...
Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine
November 20, 2009
SHWE involves development of blocks A-1 and A-3 in the Bay of Bengal, 70 km (43.5 mi) west of Myanmar. A 40000-ton (36287-metric ton) platform will produce ...
Daily News & Analysis
November 20, 2009
Maoists are getting arms and ammunition from
Myanmar and
Bangladesh as well," he said. Pillai, however, denied the
Chinese government was involved. ...
eTaiwan News
November 20, 2009
Geneva-based ILO said
Friday it has adopted a resolution calling on
Myanmar to immediately release those
prisoners. ILO says its latest resolution also ...
Reuters
November 20, 2009
The committee adopted similar resolutions condemning
North Korea and
Myanmar by much wider margins on
Thursday. The
Iran resolution "expresses its deep ...
guardian.co.uk
November 20, 2009
Dispatches: Orphans of
Burma's
cyclone. Photograph: Channel 4 Two
films shown on Channel 4's Dispatches won recognition at the Rory Peck awards last night. ...
Mizzima.com
November 20, 2009
... presented by the ILO's Liaison Officer, and the statement made by the Permanent Representative of the Government of the Union of Myanmar (Burma). ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
November 20, 2009
Thousands of
children are forced to serve in
Burma's national
army as desertions of men in the army rise. Some children were threatened with jail if they ...
Sydney Morning Herald
November 20, 2009
It is being led by
the United States, which has acknowledged that its policy of isolating
Burma through sanctions alone has failed. ...
Voice of America
November 20, 2009
The General Assembly committee also adopted a resolution on human rights abuses in
Burma, which is also known as
Myanmar. Of the 183 countries voting, ...
Bernama
November 19, 2009
Tokyo, Nov 20 (Bernama)-- Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on
Thursday called on the
United Nations refugee agency to support Japan's plan to accept
Myanmar ...
Reuters
November 19, 2009
A similar resolution on
Myanmar, formerly known as
Burma, passed 92-26 with 65 abstentions. The
North Korea resolution voiced "very serious concern" at what ...
Buffalo News
November 19, 2009
Lian Za Kam's family fled turmoil in Burma and spent three years in a Malaysian refugee camp before coming to Buffalo. ...
OpEdNews
November 19, 2009
Obama's Presidency is definitely suggesting that
the White House has an eye on
Burma and is keeping tabs on the Suu Kyi issue. ...
CCTV
November 19, 2009
19 (Xinhua) -- The
United Nations children's fund has incorporated relief work into its regular program for this year in
Myanmar's
cyclone-struck delta area ...
Movieline (blog)
November 19, 2009
Burma VJ, itself a terrific assemblage of civilian news footage from the front lines of Burma's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy marchers in 2007, ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
November 19, 2009
The
global Fund will return to
Burma with a two-year US $110 million grant to fight three
diseases:
HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. ...
Mission Network NEws (press release)
November 19, 2009
Patrick Klein with Vision Beyond Borders says, "There are currently over 150000 refugees that have come into
Thailand from
Burma. ...
Monsters and Critics.com
November 19, 2009
Yangon - The National Geographic Channel is due in
Myanmar this month to shoot a documentary on the country's hard-working elephants, sources close to the ...
Bernama
November 18, 2009
Yangon, Nov 18 (Bernama) -- Vietnamese
businessmen will invest in
Myanmar's hotel industry for the first time, as part of its engagement in the country, ...
UCLA Asia Institute
November 18, 2009
In this capacity, he works tirelessly for the release and return to power of Nobel
peace Prize winner
Aung San Suu Kyi in
Burma. He also aims to print the ...
Daily News & Analysis
November 18, 2009
PTI
Dhaka: A UN panel has suspended
Myanmar's territorial waters claim in the Bay of Bengal in a row with
Bangladesh, which says the area lies within its ...
NPR
November 18, 2009
Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world, followed closely by
Afghanistan and
Myanmar, according to researchers at the "
global civil ...
Zee News
November 18, 2009
Dhaka: A UN panel has suspended
Myanmar's territorial waters claim in the Bay of Bengal in a row with
Bangladesh, which says the area lies within its ...
New Zealand Herald
November 18, 2009
In
Myanmar - formerly known as
Burma - the challenges are rather different. The risks of getting shot or bombed while filming in the peaceable, ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
November 18, 2009
Burma is set to receive hundreds of millions of pounds from the
global Fund to tackle AIDS, TB and malaria. At its conference in
Ethiopia last week, ...
World Press Review
November 18, 2009
... a Thai Democrat MP and head of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary
Myanmar Caucus, described as "confusion over the new US
Burma policy," meaning that there ...
Wikinews
November 18, 2009
As many as 50 people have been killed after a wooden ferry capsized in the Irrawaddy delta region of
Myanmar on
sunday night, according to
officials. ...
Washington Post
November 11, 2009
The official said Washington hoped
China would encourage
Myanmar to launch an internal dialogue. "China has a powerful interest in ensuring
Burma remains a ...
The 38th Indo-
Myanmar biannual liaison meeting was held at Leimakhong on
Tuesday.A 15-member
Myanmarese delegation led by Brigadier General Tin Maung Ohn is ...
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton has urged
Myanmar to plan for elections in 2010: "We're seeking ... a process inside
Burma that would inspire a dialogue ...
Aljazeera.net
November 10, 2009
One of them will be the prime minister of
Burma," Jeffrey Bader, senior director for East Asian Affairs at the National
Security Council, ...
One of them will be the prime minister of
Burma," Jeffrey Bader, senior director for East Asian Affairs at the National
Security Council, ...
"We're going to meet with all 10 and we're not going to punish the other nine simply because
Burma is in the room, but this is not a bilateral."
Myanmar ...
Yet they fought in the deserts of
North Africa, the jungles of
Burma and over the skies of
Burma. A shrinking band of veterans, many now living in poverty, ...
The country was then called
Burma. Under Mr. Obama, Washington has reversed the policy of the administration of
President George W. Bush of shunning
Myanmar ...
By VOA News Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has urged
Burma to release detained opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi before next year's election, ...
(Photo courtesy: AFP)
Tokyo, Nov 7 (AFP) - Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on
Saturday hailed Washington's latest efforts to engage
Myanmar as ...
A new report from the
Burma Environment Working Groups highlights the impacts of military-led development in
Burma and its effect on
natural resource ...
(Photo: Getty Images) Ko Ko Aung, a Burmese dissident living in
Tokyo, said that the aim of the protest was to decry the upcoming election in
Burma as a ...
