September 27: Yangon: Members of Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy party defiantly marched to a U.N.’s office in Yangon on Monday to ask for help in winning the freedom of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and
other political prisoners.
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Dr Than Nyein, 67, elected to parliament under the National League for Democracy, or NLD, banner in the 1990 election, was hospitalized on Sunday after falling ill while protesting the extension of his prison sentence by going without food for a week.
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The much-awaited proposal for the transfer of land between India and Burma hangs in the balance due to a strong protest raised by an Indian community.
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Yangon: A Middle East airline, the Qatar Airways, will launch direct flight to Myanmar’s capital of Yangon in early 2005 to promote the regional air transportation, the Myanmar Times reported in this week’s issue.
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September 27: Washington: UN special envoy for Myanmar Razali Ismail held talks Monday with Deputy US Secretary of State Richard Armitage and urged the military rulers in Yangon to launch “meaningful” dialogue with the opposition.
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September 27: After nearly six years of legal obstacles, a Burmese man granted asylum in the U.S. brings his wife and three children to safety
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September 27: No action is more inhuman than the act of cutting off all humanitarian aid to and imposing economic sanctions on a country to cause hardship. In other words, it is the worst violation of human rights that can also be put down as economic terrorism. Moreover, it is an evil act bred by greed and injustice.
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September 27: Although George Orwell died in 1950 ‘ 11 years before General Ne Win seized power in Burma and led it down the disastrous ‘Burmese Road to Socialism’ ‘ the British novelist’s ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ are regarded by Burmese intellectuals as prophetic of their
nation’s fate.
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September 25: A leading Rangoon based business magazine, Myanmar Dhana has not been banned and is preparing publication of next month’s issue, the chief editor Thiha Saw has told Mizzima.
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Myanmar’s opposition told the ruling military on Monday that the country could only be united with the release of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt today applauded Thailand for its social development in the Thai-Myanmar border region, saying that Thailand’s cooperation had helped Myanmar in reducing deaths from major diseases in the area, according to Public Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan.
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Sweden has agreed to grant residence to 150 ethnic Karen living in a refugee camp in Thailand, near the Burma border, said Barbro Holmberg, Sweden’s Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy, after meeting Thai and Karen officials today.
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Myanmar reiterated its commitment at the weekend to rid the military-run state of narcotic drugs despite what it termed interference by “neo-colonialists,” state media reported.
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September 26: A recent US State Department report salutes Thailand’s progress in shutting down international drug traffickers, but much remains to be done on the home front
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If history is any guide to current policy, Asean should reconsider its push for Burmese participation at the upcoming Asia Europe Meeting (Asem) in October.
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Seven Tours Cancelled in Two Months as US Senate, Hunger Strikers Take Action
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Yangon: A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced four opposition party officials to seven years in jail during a closed trial at the notorious Insein Prison, a party spokesman said Friday.
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Yangon: Myanmar’s Supreme Court has made the unprecedented decision to allow appeals by eight people originally sentenced to death in a controversial high treason case, a defence lawyer said.
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September 23: The local residents in Kalay, Sagaing Division said they were forced to work for cleaning airport on July 15 and August 31 by the authorities.
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