The U.N. Security Council’s first-ever meeting in December to discuss the deteriorating situation in Burma was prompted in part by a comprehensive report in September calling for Security Council action that was commissioned by former Czech president Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu.
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Yangon: A Myanmar newspaper has blasted Western embassies for offering classes in human rights and democracy that that were attended by critics of the military junta.
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Yangon: Tourist arrivals to Myanmar have risen 59 percent since 2000 as more visitors from Thailand, China and Japan entered the country, the government said Wednesday.
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Mae Sot: There’s no sign marking Dr Cynthia Maung’s clinic, but almost everyone on this stretch of the Thai-Myanmar border knows the way.
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Beijing: China has urged Myanmar to step up efforts to fight drug trafficking and warned of the dangers of the “flood” of narcotics crossing their common border, state press said Wednesday.
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Delegations representing more than 50 German companies were due to arrive in Rangoon this evening to explore business and trade opportunities in the country.
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February 16: China has signalled to visiting Burmese Prime Minister Soe Win, a figure unwelcome in the rest of Asia, that the pariah state could continue to depend on China but needed to reform its medieval economy and relax political repression.
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The United States and its European allies worry that if they simply accept a nuclear Iran, other states will be encouraged to pursue nuclear ambitions of their own. (more…)

General Soe Win, the prime minister of Burma, has arrived in Beijing for an official four-day visit. (more…)

February 14: Reactions on the NLD’s Union Day Special Statement by renowned 88 Generation Students of Burma
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