Chiang Mai: Thailand Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon will visit Rangoon today to hold talks with Burma’s military junta.
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Yangon: A total of 28 members from some four anti-government armed groups and individuals in Myanmar laid down their arms to the government forces in the last three months, a state-run newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) legal advocates, on 31 August, lodged appeals to the High Court in Rangoon on behalf of two party members from Shwe Kyin Township, Pegu Division in central Burma.
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August 28: Bangkok: Who says the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs can be boring? Not if a military regime comes in the way of one of the global targets prescribed by the United Nations–halting the spread of AIDS by 2015.
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Many Rangoon residents have abstained from eating chicken after an outbreak of what was suspected as bird-flu, reports Chai Sayam from the border:
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Every year, two million people are falling victim to the modern slave trade across the world, the United Nations has warned.
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The term of Kofi Annan as UN secretary-general expires at the end of next year. The campaign for pole position to succeed him has begun, if discreetly.
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