Burma’s second largest winning party whose top leaders had been put behind bars last month has cautioned some of its adherents against undue partisanship, according to sources on the border:

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March 2: Legal experts who tried on Tuesday to visit detained ethnic Shan politicians before their trial were refused access to the special court in Insein prison, one of them complained.

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Seoul: A Korean-American pastor from Atlanta drowned in a river while trying to help a group of North Koreans defect to the South, a civic group claimed Thursday.

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Yangon: Foreign customers taking Myanmar traditional food registered the majority, accounting for 65 percent of the total visiting the country, restaurant businessmen here said on Thursday.

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Yangon: Eighteen private timber companies in Myanmar will fund the government’s teak cultivation project this year as a follow-up of last year’s, a local press reported Thursday.

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A report in the Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter, said that San Ramon, Calif.-based ChevronTexaco was eyeing the smaller, fellow California oil company for its 1.75 billion oil-equivalent barrels of reserves.

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Dhaka: According to a recent report of Jane’s Intelligence Review (JIR), a leading world magazine, an arms cache seized last year in Chittagong seaport was shipped from Hong Kong, where more weapons were added to the collection , then shipped on to Singapore before being brought to Bangladesh.

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Dhaka: According to a recent report of Jane’s Intelligence Review (JIR), a leading world magazine, an arms cache seized last year in Chittagong seaport was shipped from Hong Kong, where more weapons were added to the collection , then shipped on to Singapore before being brought to Bangladesh.

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Dhaka: According to a recent report of Jane’s Intelligence Review (JIR), a leading world magazine, an arms cache seized last year in Chittagong seaport was shipped from Hong Kong, where more weapons were added to the collection , then shipped on to Singapore before being brought to Bangladesh.

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Bangkok: Neighborly pressure is tightening to withhold the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Asean, from Burma in 2006. A group of legislators from the regional grouping said Wednesday it would press its governments to tell Rangoon to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from detention and move toward democracy if it was to be handed the rotating chairmanship.

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Jakarta: Indonesia will host the 15th ASEAN-EU ministerial meeting on March 10 which will include talks on fighting terrorism and trans-national crimes, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

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Supachai’s appointment means the govt will have to reassess its costly campaign

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Activists from Burma, Bangladesh and India are launching a campaign to oppose current plans to sell natural gas from Western Burma to India as it will earn billions of dollars for the Burmese junta and further entrench military rule.

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