Yangon: Myanmar’s new foreign minister will attend the United Nations annual debate after being promoted in a weekend cabinet reshuffle that strengthened the position of hardliners, a source close to the ministry said Tuesday.
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The Karenni National Progressive Party, or KNPP, plans to talk with the Burmese government in Tachilek, a border town that abuts the Thai town of Mae Sai, according to a KNPP leader. The Karenni proposal was made through a peace advocacy group on September 4.
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September 13: Yangon: Myanmar will open liaison offices in border towns adjoining Thailand and China to help crack down on human trafficking, the semiofficial Myanmar Times reported Monday.
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Yangon: Myanmar has imposed a temporary ban on poultry imports from Malaysia following the discovery of the bird flu virus there last month, a livestock official said Tuesday.
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September 20: Yangon: Indonesia’s special envoy to Myanmar said ASEAN has a better method of approaching junta-ruled Myanmar, than placing sanctions on the
country, the Burmese service section of Washington-based Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday.
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September 20: Washington: A resolution seeking UN Security Council action against Myanmar was introduced Monday in the US Senate, accusing the Southeast
Asian state’s military rulers of brutally repressing ethnic minorities and using rape as a weapon of war.
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U2, Avril Lavigne, R.E.M. and Pearl Jam are among the artists donating tracks to a benefit album for Aung San Suu Kyi, an imprisoned Burmese humanitarian known to some as “Asia’s Nelson Mandela.”
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September 20: Brussels: Foreign ministers of European Union member countries decided Monday to tighten the EU’s sanctions against Myanmar unless Yangon improves its human rights situation before an Asia-Europe summit in Hanoi on Oct. 8-9.
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September 20: Humanitarian crises encircle the globe. Violent resistance afflicts Iraq. Mass death from starvation and war threatens Sudan. Millions have died in other conflicts across Africa. So no one has much time for Burma.
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Burma’s cabinet reshuffle at the weekend leaves Prime Minister Khin Nyunt out in the cold as the leaders pull down the shutters to the outside world
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