A minister will lead a Myanmar delegation to attend the fifth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 5) to be held here on Oct. 8-9, said a local official on Monday.
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Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran held consultations with his Myanmar counterpart U Kyaw Thu here Monday to promote bilateral relations, diplomatic sources said.
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October 3: More needs to be done to create a Burma formula acceptable to both the opposition and its western “friends”, particularly the European Union and the United States, according to Sai Wansai a.k.a. Sai Myo Win, General
Secretary of the Shan Democratic Union, one of the four panelists at the joint European Policy Center-Ebert Stiftung Dialogue held in Brussels on 30 September.
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The trade gap between Bangladesh and Myanmar has widened drastically since the 1997-98 fiscal year.
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Myanmar is ready to work with the international community to counter money laundering and other illegal activities committed by international criminal groups, a semiofficial newspaper reported Monday.
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October 3: Focus Energy plans to spend a further four million dollars on its oil operations in Myanmar, where the private firm is already one of the largest onshore producers, the Myanmar Times said.
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HANOI – The absent member will be the one holding centre-stage at a meeting in Hanoi of leaders of Asia and Europe. In a hard-fought compromise, Myanmar’s ruling junta will not send its government head.
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Following from the Centre’s promise to launch a joint campaign against militant outfits like the NDFB, the Home Secretary has begun a meeting with officials from Myanmar in Delhi.
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October 3: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil has accepted Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s suggestion for a pan northeast counterinsurgency strategy to deal with the increasing violence unleashed by various militant groups.
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Isuue dated: October 11, 2004 / Vol. 164, No. 15

For her steadiness and her steadfast belief in the powers of democracy and peaceful protest, 40.4% of voters nominated Aung San Suu Kyi as Asia’s Online Hero for 2004. The daughter of Aung San, an independence leader who
helped free Burma from colonialism under the British in 1948, Aung San Suu Kyi rose to the fore of the pro-democracy movement, only to see it violently suppressed in the early 1990s by Burma’s ruling military junta. (more…)

Text of report by Burmese opposition radio Democratic Voice of Burma web site on 2 October
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French President Jacques Chirac will not attend a ceremony welcoming Myanmar to an Asia-EU summit in Vietnam on Thursday, officials in Paris said.
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October 2: Diplomacy and constructive engagement do not appear to have made any headway in fixing Burma’s undemocratic ways.
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