A Karen National Union, or KNU, Fourth Brigade camp at Nam Ka Prao village in Southern Burma, Tenasserim Division was attacked by the Burma Army on Tuesday, despite a ceasefire agreement being in place, according to KNU general-secretary Mahn Sha.
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Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, or NLD, suspended three senior members for one year yesterday for organizing a march to a UN office in Rangoon, the party’s spokesman said on Thursday.
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Bangkok: Thai poachers capture dozens of endangered wild baby elephants in Laos and Myanmar each year to feed growing demand from circuses, zoos and traveling shows, experts warned Thursday.
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Bangkok: Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai faces a long, uphill race for the top job at the United Nations despite the backing of his Southeast Asian neighbours, analysts and diplomats said on Thursday. The wealthy Harvard-educated lawyer was endorsed by his regional counterparts on Wednesday as Southeast Asia’s choice to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan when his second five-year terms ends in 2006.
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Foreign policy has served Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s own ambitions for regional leadership and for his business empire, academics at a Chulalongkorn University seminar said yesterday.
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September 29: United Nations: Myanmar on Wednesday defended its human rights record in the face of international pressure to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but an exiled opposition member warned that abuses “continue unabated.”
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September 29: United Nations: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan met with representatives of a dozen nations here on Wednesday to seek ways of pressing Myanmar’s military regime, in power for more than four decades, to move toward democracy.
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The Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, or ICFTU, on Wednesday sent a letter to Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri urging the Indonesian government not to deport six Burmese seafarers who were detained last month.
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September 29: The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
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