Detained Burma Opposition Leader Unhappy About Visitor Restriction
Posted by nyein in News on 30. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Thursday , October 29, 2009
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RANGOON, Burma —
Detained Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unhappy about restrictions on the visitors she is allowed under house arrest, including members of her legal team and an architect needed to help repair her dilapidated lakeside home.
Burmese authorities detain freelance journalist
Posted by nyein in News on 30. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
New York, October 29, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns and calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist and blogger Pai Soe Oo, who was detained by government authorities on Wednesday for questioning.
EU to raise more fund aid for Myanmar
Posted by nyein in News on 27. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
The European Union (EU) will raise 35-million-euro (43.75 million U.S. dollars) fund aid for Myanmar for a five-year vocational training and food security plan project in cyclone-hit areas as well as other regions in the country, diplomatic sources said on Monday.
Myanmar: U.S. Delegation to Visit
Posted by nyein in Politics on 22. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
By REUTERS
Published: October 21, 2009
The United States will send a fact-finding delegation to Myanmar, formerly Burma, as part of an exploratory dialogue with that country’s military junta,
American to stand trial in Myanmar for fraud
Posted by nyein in News on 15. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Wed Oct 14, 6:53 am ET
YANGON, Myanmar – A Myanmar-born American jailed for allegedly plotting to incite unrest in the military-ruled country was brought before a court Wednesday on charges that carry a sentence of up to 14 years, his lawyer said.
UPDATE 1-Myanmar builds troops on border, says Bangladesh
Posted by nyein in News on 12. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Adds foreign minister’s comments)
By Anis Ahmed
DHAKA, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Bangladesh said on Sunday it had sent army reinforcements to the border with Myanmar as Yangon was undertaking a military build-up along the 320-km (200-mile) frontier, partly overlooking the Naf river.
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi meets Western diplomats
Posted by nyein in News on 09. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
By Aung Hla Tun Aung Hla Tun – Fri Oct 9, 4:26 am ET
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s ruling junta allowed detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet Western diplomats on Friday, a week after she asked for talks about sanctions on the isolated [...]
Top Myanmar official will be at Obama-ASEAN talks
Posted by nyein in News on 09. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Posted: 09 October 2009 0755 hrs
WASHINGTON - A senior Myanmar official, likely the prime minister, will be at President Barack Obama’s talks next month with Southeast Asian nations, US officials said Thursday, after earlier suggesting leaders from the military state would not attend.
Myanmar will not be at Obama ASEAN meeting: White House
Posted by nyein in News on 08. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
AFP/POOL/File – Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe is pictured in 2008. The White House said on Thursday that leaders from …
Thu Oct 8, 2:35 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House said on Thursday that leaders from military-ruled Myanmar would not be at a meeting between President Barack Obama and Association of Southeast Asian Nations [...]
Myanmar official meets Aung San Suu Kyi
Posted by nyein in News on 07. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
(10-07) 01:56 PDT YANGON, Myanmar (AP) –
Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks Wednesday with a junta official, the second such meeting within a week following her call for a new era of cooperation, official sources said.
Untold Stories of China and Taiwan
Posted by nyein in World & Regional on 05. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
By VERNA YU
Published: October 5, 2009
HONG KONG — When Ying Meijun bade farewell to her 1-year-old son at the train station in September 1949, little did she know that it would be 38 years before she saw him again.
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Lung Yingtai in Hong Kong.
The baby was crying so much that [...]
Myanmar-American to get Suu Kyi lawyers
Posted by nyein in News, World & Regional on 03. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Saturday, October 3, 2009
(10-03) 05:45 PDT YANGON, Myanmar (AP) –
Two lawyers for detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have agreed to defend a Myanmar-born American jailed for allegedly planning to incite unrest in the military-run country, the lawyers said Saturday.
Myanmar junta official meets Aung San Suu Kyi
Posted by nyein in News on 03. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
YANGON, Myanmar – Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was escorted into surprise talks with a junta official Saturday, a week after writing a letter to the military leader proposing a new era of cooperation.
China Resists UN Security Council Talks on Myanmar, Envoys Say
Posted by nyein in News on 03. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
By Bill Varner
Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) — China kept Myanmar off the agenda of the United Nations Security Council this month by seeking to put the issue of civilian deaths in Afghanistan on the schedule, Chinese and French envoys said. Neither subject made it.
