Yangon: A top United Nations envoy tasked with pressing military-run Myanmar on reforms met members of detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party Friday amid fresh US pressure on the junta.
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Yangon: A leader of Myanmar’s chief opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), denied on Friday state media reports that it was losing scores of members to resignations.
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May 20: The Age’s South-East Asia correspondent goes inside Burma for a rare look at a shunned regime that is in the grip of a social, political and economic meltdown.
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May 17: Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) has extended the prison terms of Dr Win Aung, chairman of Khin-U Township National League for Democracy (NLD) in Sagaing Division, and two other members by seven years.
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Thai officials have stepped up surveillance of small, independent drug traffickers, and new measures are now targeting migrant workers from neighboring countries.
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Ongoing efforts by opposition groups to engage China has been welcomed by the Sino-Burma border based ceasefire groups, according to a high level source from one of the armed groups that has been at peace with Burma’s military rulers since 1989.
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May 17: Although India has been selected to be a member of the new UN human rights council, the country will not change its policy on Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), Executive Director of the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center (SAHRDC) Ravi Nair told DVB.
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May 18: Yuma, Arizona: US President George W. Bush on Thursday renewed economic sanctions on Myanmar for another year, saying military rulers of the Southeast Asian nation posed a threat to US national security and foreign policy.
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If some power-hungry generals were looking for a place to set up a dictatorship with minimal interference from the outside world they would go a long way to find a more amenable place than Myanmar. (more…)

I am angry. I am angry at a murderous regime which is carrying out crimes against humanity and attempted genocide with impunity. And I am angry that the world still remains largely silent and inactive.
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