Bangkok: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has pulled its funding for programmes in army-ruled Myanmar, blaming travel and other restrictions imposed by the junta, the Fund said on Friday.
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Yangon: The reclusive leader of Myanmar’s military government was to hold a rare meeting Friday with a UN envoy named two years ago to press for the freedom of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Myanmar official said.
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They entertain tourists with jokes about life in Burma, but the secret police could come calling at any time, writes Nick Meo.
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Burmese ethnic ceasefire group The New Mon State Party today celebrated the 58th anniversary of Mon Revolution Day near Three Pagoda Pass on the Thai-Burma border and stated that the party will continue on the road to peace unless relations between the NMSP and the Burmese junta deteriorate.
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This Resource Book developed by the Bank Information Center is designed to help Burmese speakers working toward democracy in Burma learn about multilateral development banks (MDBs), (more…)

Kuala Lumpur: Southeast Asian countries will work with China, Japan and South Korea to combat ecological problems like the forest fire-generated smoke haze that recently hit Indonesia and Malaysia, officials said Friday.
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Burma is full of surprises. The latest one may be an impending visit to Rangoon by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Speculation about such a trip has increased recently on the heels of visits to Burma by high profile UN diplomats in the last several weeks.
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New government restrictions make grant implementation impossible
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