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2012/05/28 09:11
2012/05/28 09:11
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Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party. Singh will travel to the main city of Yangon for talks with Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, a meeting seen as a bid to repair relations with...
2012/05/28 09:11
2012/05/28 09:11
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2012/05/28 08:42
2012/05/28 08:42
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Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel overseas next week for the first time in more than two decades to attend an economic forum in Bangkok, her party said on...
2012/05/28 06:38
2012/05/28 06:38
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Suu Kyi going on to become a parliamentarian after years of house arrest at her lakeside villa in Yangon. After the bespectacled Thein Sein shed his uniform, he became an integral part of the...
2012/05/27 23:10
2012/05/27 23:10
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... several reasons. It comes just before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s departure for Yangon and Naypyidaw today at the invitation of Myanmar President U Thein Sein. One of the...
2012/05/27 20:15
2012/05/27 20:15
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Thane. He said the country was looking to build an industrial park in the Bassein region, west of Yangon, but stressed that it would be mainly for domestic industries and would not be an SEZ like...
2012/05/27 17:38
2012/05/27 17:38
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Yangon, May 27: Japan has opened negotiations with Myanmar on an investment agreement, the trade ministry said. "Since many Japanese private companies are trying to do business with Burma (Myanmar),...
2012/05/27 16:38
2012/05/27 16:38
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... at the mausoleum in Myanmar of Bahadur Shah Zafar, India's last Mughal emperor who died in Yangon in 1862 after the British exiled him. The prime minister will offer flowers and a 'chadar' at...
2012/05/27 10:04
2012/05/27 10:04
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... going into Myanmar and hoping to find an immediate pot of gold may find the road to Yangon (the country’s economic centre) is covered not with precious stones but obstacles and...
2012/05/27 07:54
2012/05/27 07:54
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Starved of funds and medicine during decades of military rule, doctors at a clinic in Yangon offer their usual advice to one of Myanmar's newest HIV patients -- come back when you're sicker. In a...
2012/05/27 06:38
2012/05/27 06:38
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Yangon, May 27 : Businessmen from Singapore are keen to invest in the hotel and tourism sector in Myanmar. A 15-member delegation of the International Enterprise Singapore Business Department Trip to...
2012/05/27 04:58
2012/05/27 04:58
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... are exercising their political rights. This week, several hundred people gathered in Yangon to protest against power outages. Another protest in Mandalay attracted hundreds more...
2012/05/27 01:42
2012/05/27 01:42
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Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's president has urged the nation's millions-strong diaspora to return, state media reported Saturday, as the country seeks skilled workers to help smooth the passage of...
2012/05/26 23:38
2012/05/26 23:38
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Yangon, May 26 : An armed group called the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) blew up a power grid post in Myanmar's northern Shan state, state media reported Saturday. Friday's explosion hit the...
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2012/05/26 18:54
2012/05/26 18:54
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... calculate. The protests have been peaceful and relatively unassertive so far, with the crowd in Yangon _ Myanmar's biggest city _ topping out at about 300 on Friday night. The peaceful...
2012/05/26 13:33
2012/05/26 13:33
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... to its citizens for twenty years. Protesters hold candles during a candlelight vigil in Yangon, Friday, May 25, 2012. Khin Maun Win — AP Photo The government has exploited building...
2012/05/25 07:37
2012/05/25 07:37
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... the past 20 years. A migrant worker at a slum where she lives at an industrial zone outside Yangon. Myanmar is one of Asia’s poorest countries, but with abundant resources such as oil and...
2012/05/25 05:38
2012/05/25 05:38
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Co. of Japan and BKB Co. of South Korea. The report said a 600 MW coal-fired power plant near Yangon will be built on a joint venture with the Japanese firm, while another 500 MW gas-fired power...
2012/05/25 03:08
2012/05/25 03:08
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... the gateway to Myanmar. Myanmar currently has six domestic airlines and an airport each in Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay. It also has 759 licensed tour companies, of which one is wholly...
2012/05/25 02:05
2012/05/25 02:05
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... WEF - and make an announcement welcoming participants to the 2013 WEF East Asia, to be held in Yangon next year. The concern over occupying the same forum highlights the need for the...
2012/05/24 13:08
2012/05/24 13:08
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... taken place in several towns in Myanmar this week, including the commercial capital, Yangon, as citizens test the limit of democratic changes, leaving the authorities struggling to...