Exiled Burmese democratic leaders have urged the New Zealand Government to stop its “immoral” exports of dairy produce to their home country ruled by a military junta.
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International trade unions have called on the European Union to take harsher measures against Burma’s junta, complaining that Rangoon has failed to meet the EU’s demands to improve the country’s political situation.
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Myanmar on Thursday maintained defiance in the face of international calls to give up the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations because of its poor democracy and rights record.
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Phnom Penh: Myanmar will announce in the coming future its decision not to assume the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in July next year, Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Ranariddh said Thursday.
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The United Nations temporarily suspended its opium crop eradication programme conducted with the Myanmar government, but has since resumed it, the UN’s drug agency representative said on Thursday.
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The Burmese troops came looking for food and clothing and left behind a dead Thai policeman in an area supposedly governed by rules of engagement. (more…)

April 20: Conscious of the need to explain themselves in the face of a bombshell declaration of Independence by a group of Shan elders on Sunday, 17 April, both the Shan Democratic Union and the Restoration Council of Shan State,
the Shan State Army ‘South”s political wing, have both come out to wash their hands off their compatriots in spite of their aversion to “washing their dirty linen in public,” as one Shan dissident put it:
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A senior officer of the military regime and representatives from ethnic ceasefire groups met in Lashio, capital of Northern Shan State, on Wednesday to discuss their views on an independent Shan State, according to ceasefire groups.
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Chairman of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council Senior-General Than Shwe left here Thursday for the Asian-African Summit in Jakarta and the commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of the Asian-African Conference in Bandung.
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A number of former anti-government ethnic armed organizations, which have returned to the legal fold, have successively opposed to a Shan ethnic group of Sao Hkam Hpa for its April 17 declaration of the formation of an
independent Shan state federal government to secede from the union of Myanmar, according to Thursday’s official media reports.
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Military forces in Myanmar have been accused by an international rights group of using chemical weapons on rebel fighters.
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