Besides aid donations, Thailand’s economic dynamism allows it to influence the economic development of its poorer neighbours in other ways as well.
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German public television broadcaster Deutsche Welle has signed an agreement offering Burma’s state-owned MRTV retransmission rights on its programs, representatives of the Berlin-based network have confirmed.
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Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) will ask the nation’s highest court to review the death of a party member it believes was killed during police interrogation, a party spokesman said Sunday.
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September 11: Bangkok: His name does not carry the same aura as Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet, to his fellow citizens, the 42-year-old Min Ko Naing is just as significant as ‘The Lady’.
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Myanmar tourism officials expect a slight increase in the number of visitors to the military-ruled country when the peak season begins next month despite a boycott call by pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, a semi-official weekly reported Monday.
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A new bridge, standing parallel to the old one that crosses the Shweli-Mao River, between Ruili and Jegao, near Sino-Burma border, under construction since 2002, was opened on 9 September, 2005.
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Manila: Traffickers have been shifting to the manufacture of amphetamine-type drugs in Asia as cultivation and production of heroin drops sharply, a senior
United Nations official said on Monday.
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Foreign investment in Burma increased by more than 34 percent in 2004, despite US and European sanctions imposed on the military-ruled country, according to government statistics published at the end of last week.
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A Myanmar and a Canadian information and communication technology (ICT) company have reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to run an internet service provider (ISP) in Myanmar as part of the country’s bid to expand such services, a local news journal reported Monday.
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Dhaka: Bangladeshi entrepreneurs are now looking to invest in Myanmar in some sectors they have expertise in, as the two neighbouring countries have made easy trading arrangements.
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New York: Children around the world face systematic barriers to schooling that are undermining global progress towards universal primary education, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released ahead of the U.N. World Summit.
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September 10: Burmese democracy campaigners based in the United States are joining hands with local relief organizations to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, which hit much of the Gulf Coast region.
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September 9: When it comes to Burma, that is. ASEAN wants to push the issue under the carpet, while the West is content with grandstanding
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