Pro-democracy groups both inside and outside Burma have slammed tomorrow’s European Commission-sponsored ‘Burma Day 2005′ in Brussels, likening it to the military dictatorship’s own widely disparaged National Convention.
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Yangon: Myanmar’s Prime Minister Lt. Gen. Soe Win will visit Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, a state-run newspaper said Monday, amid growing frustration in Southeast Asia over the slow pace of democratic reform by the ruling military.
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Yangon: Myanmar’s Prime Minister Lt. Gen. Soe Win will visit Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, a state-run newspaper said Monday, amid growing frustration in Southeast Asia over the slow pace of democratic reform by the ruling military.
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Parliamentarians from the Philippines and other member-countries of Asean yesterday failed to include the issue of lack of democratic reforms in Burma (Myanmar) as an “emergency item” in the 112th Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly which began last night.
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Dhaka: A guerrilla group from Burma is suspected in the kidnapping of 5 Bangladeshis from a work site in the Bandaban district town of Bangladesh during the early hours of April 2, reported local sources.
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Yangon: The Japanese government will provide Myanmar with an aid of 500,000 US dollars through the UN World Food Program (WFP) to help the country implement food security projects, a local press reported Monday.
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The SPDC State Peace and Development Council has stationed many security forces in Monywa as clashes broke out between the students and police at Monywa Institute of Economics.
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