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Top Myanmar official will be at Obama-ASEAN talks
Posted by nyein in News on 09. Oct, 2009 | No 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 | No 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 | No 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 | No 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 | No 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 | No 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 | No 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.
Myanmar court rejects opposition leader’s appeal
Posted by nyein in News on 02. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Fri Oct 2, 12:11 pm ET
YANGON, Myanmar – A Myanmar court rejected an appeal Friday by democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her release from house arrest, another reminder that the country’s military junta treads warily when considering concessions to the opposition or improving relations with the West.
Law professor testifies before Senate committee on Burma, urges constitutional change
Posted by nyein in Politics on 02. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
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Oct. 2, 2009
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Facing the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor David C. Williams urged the federal government not to relax sanctions on the Burmese military regime — the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) — until demonstrable progress can be shown [...]
Elder of Burmese Opposition Grapples With Election Dissonance
Posted by nyein in Politics on 30. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: September 29, 2009
YANGON, Myanmar — U Win Tin, once Myanmar’s longest- serving political prisoner, was tormented, tortured and beaten by his captors in the notorious Insein Prison for nearly two decades. Now, at 80, he faces a new kind of torment: watching colleagues from his political party decide whether to [...]
U.S. Senator to meet Myanmar’s prime minister
Posted by nyein in News on 30. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Jim Webb will meet with Myanmar’s prime minister Monday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, the Virginia Democrat’s office announced.
A Myanmar pro-democracy supporter displays a poster outside the United Nations in New York.
New currency note in Myanmar raises concerns
Posted by nyein in Financial, News on 24. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
By Kocha Olarn
CNN
BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) — Myanmar’s government announced Thursday that it will begin circulating a new currency note next week.
The new note would be the largest unveiled by the military regime.
Myanmar junta still repressing monks: rights group
Posted by nyein in News on 23. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
BANGKOK (AFP) – Myanmar’s Buddhist monks face continuing intimidation, repression and severe jail sentences two years after the junta’s crackdown on anti-government protests, a rights group said Tuesday.
Myanmar PM to attend UN assembly after 14-year absence
Posted by nyein in News on 22. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
YANGON, Sept 22 — The prime minister of army-ruled Myanmar plans to visit the UN General Assembly for the first time in 14 years, a government official said today.
