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... that have dominated recent headlines, from the revolutions in the Middle East to reforms in Burma, began with human rights, with the clear call of men and women demanding their universal...
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2012/05/25 11:04
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Yangon - Five days of street protests over chronic power shortages present Myanmar's reformist government with a headache and an opportunity. Police forcibly dispersed protesters in the central...
2012/05/25 08:59
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... of the past 20 years. Next month will be her first trip to the UK since she left Oxford for Burma in June, 1988. Daw Suu studied philosophy, politics and economics at St Hugh’s College from...
2012/05/25 08:57
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... is credited with instigating a series of political reforms in the country formerly known as Burma, on Monday in the capital Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar government officials. Once an...
2012/05/25 07:37
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SINGAPORE, May 25 — Hong Kong’s Cube Capital and Marc Faber-backed Leopard Capital are among Asian private equity firms lining up nearly US$500 million (RM1.6 billion) aimed at Myanmar, hoping to tap...
2012/05/25 07:29
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In a first visit to Myanmar by any Prime Minister in the last 25 years, Dr Manmohan Singh will be paying a state visit to the country’s south-eastern neighbour, which is in a transition to democracy,...
2012/05/25 05:38
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Beijing, May 25 : China will encourage its firms to discuss cooperation with Myanmar on upgrading the country's power grid in order to help ease power shortage, the Chinese foreign ministry has said....
2012/05/25 03:08
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Thailand is the second-largest investor in Myanmar's hotel business after Singapore, but the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) has warned that the young country still faces many obstacles such...
2012/05/25 02:05
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Myanmar President Thein Sein will go ahead with a state visit to Thailand next week, but may skip the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia, where democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is also billed to...
2012/05/25 00:21
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Human rights conditions remain dismal in North Korea and Iran and got worse in China, where “efforts to silence political activists and public-interest lawyers were stepped up” last year, according...
2012/05/24 23:15
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... in Myanmar, the United States singled out change afoot in the Asian nation — also known as Burma — saying it is moving toward allowing greater liberties. “From the revolutions in the Middle...
2012/05/24 21:12
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In its yearly report on Human Rights, the U.S. State Department noted that 2011 was tumultuous. Some countries — for example, Tunisia, which kicked off the Arab Spring — made strides while others fell...
2012/05/24 20:38
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... that failed to live up to her performance. Yeoh is superb as Suu Kyi: daughter of modern Burma’s founder Aung San; an Oxford-educated scholar; wife of a British Tibetan scholar Michael Aris...
2012/05/24 20:36
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By PNA / Xinhua and U.S. News Agency / Asian The 32nd conference of the ASEAN Chiefs of Police (ASEANAPOL) ended here Thursday with a joint statement chiefly on cooperation in various areas like...
2012/05/24 18:45
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department says human rights conditions have deteriorated in China and that Vietnam also continues to severely restrict political rights and freedom of...
2012/05/24 18:08
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... that have dominated recent headlines from the revolutions in the Middle East to reforms in Burma began with human rights, with the clear call of men and women demanding their universal...
2012/05/24 13:08
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Myanmar's authorities need to keep calm and avoid violence in the face of protests against power outages and should view them as a natural stage in a transition from military rule to...
2012/05/24 13:04
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London – South Africa, along with other emerging powers India and Brazil, has been singled out by rights group Amnesty International in its annual report, saying the countries were "complicit through...
2012/05/24 08:54
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... following her stunning portrayal of Aung San Suu Kyi, a respected Burmese opposition politician and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma...
2012/05/24 05:10
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New Delhi, May 23: The cabinet is set to give its approval to a weekly bus service connecting the Manipur capital, Imphal, with the Myanmar city of Mandalay. After the cabinet approval, slated for...