Manila: Talks to draft a new constitution for military-ruled Myanmar will resume in October but the party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is likely to be excluded from them, Myanmar’s ambassador to the Philippines said Tuesday.
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Manila: Myanmar’s abrupt move to a new administrative capital near the remote town of Pyinmana will help its military rulers better address problems in border areas, a diplomat from the reclusive nation said Tuesday.
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Bangkok: While a major international conference on HIV/AIDS opened Sunday in Canada with a message to help those affected by the disease, on this side of the globe, in Burma, the ruling military regime moved to arrest sufferers and campaigners.
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Activists inside and outside Burma have expressed their disappointment over the military regime’s arrest of members of the opposition National League for Democracy, who were providing counseling and education to HIV/AIDS patients.
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Manila: China and India are racing to secure a lock on a newly discovered offshore natural gas field in Myanmar, believed to be one of the largest such finds in Southeast Asia, the reclusive nation’s ambassador to the Philippines said Tuesday.
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Daewoo International is looking at building a liquefied natural gas project to sell gas from its A block gas fields offshore Myanmar after raising reserves on them to 10trn cu ft.
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Manila: Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi must not rock the boat, Myanmar warned Tuesday, playing down hopes that the ruling junta would free her during its self-proclaimed journey to democracy.
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Burma’s democracy icon and Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is currently under house arrest in Burma, will be honoured by her alma mater the Lady Sri Ram College for Women (LSR) in New Delhi on August 21.
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A back-bench revolt has forced the Howard Government to dramatically abandon its plan to harden Australia’s asylum-seeker policy.
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