Demand for funds for the women federation headed by General Khin Nyunt’s wife in Burma and demand for young migrant women in Thailand have formed a natural alliance against Bangkok’s anti-human trafficking campaign, reports Pegasus from Maesai.
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September 20: It has been learned that U Po Too and U Than Lone, NLD (National League for Democracy) members from Singu Township in Mandalay Division, were sentenced to seven years imprisonment each by a court in Mandalay jail today. NLD members U Po Too and U Than Lone from Kokkosu Village and Ywathitgale Village respectively in Singu Township were unjustly arrested for throwing stones.
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Though several northeast Indian states have been demanding that the Indo-Burma border be sealed to contain the growing insurgency perpetuated allegedly from Burma, a complete sealing of the border is not possible.
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August 20: Imphal: The success in flushout operations against North-East militant groups having camps in the Indo-Myanmar border area has been nothing like that carried out in Bhutan at the end of 2003, said defence sources in Imphal.
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South Korea’s Daewoo International Corp. (047050.SE) will build a US$3 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Myanmar if additional reserves are found in a field off western Myanmar’s coast, a newspaper reported Monday.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s recent statement on Burma is the essential first step in our ‘road map’ for UN Security Council action on Burma.
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Augsut 20: The Ethnic Nationalities Council warmly welcomed the 17 August 2004  statement of the United Nations Secretary General regarding the National Convention in Burma;
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1. The Ethnic Nationalities Council calls on the European Union not to  accept Burma as a member in the upcoming ASEM (Asia Europe) meeting in Hanoi in October 2004.
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