Yangon: Myanmar’s (Burma’s) main opposition party, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, on Wednesday marked its 18th anniversary amid an outpouring of support from the international community but more detentions on the homefront.
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Yangon: Myanmar’s military junta arrested three pro-democracy activists Wednesday as the political party of detained Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi marked its 18th anniversary, activists said.
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The Mon cease-fire armed group, the New Mon State Party (NMSP) has decided to join the military government’s National Convention as an observer yet again, at it’s the party’s Central Committee meeting.
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Many Burmese migrant workers in Thailand are declining to fill in new ID papers, or else are giving false information, because they fear the information might be used against them and their families by the Burmese regime.
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Pyay, Myanmar: In a steamy jungle clearing in Myanmar, a lone drilling rig topped by limp red flags bears testimony to China’s insatiable thirst for oil.
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More than 20 South Korean non-government organizations and trade unions, including Amnesty International South Korean Section, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions, and Friends of Asia, have urged the Seoul government to investigate Daewoo International Corporation for allegedly sending armaments technology to Burma.
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United Nations: Myanmar says it poses no threat to regional peace and security and therefore should be removed from the U.N. Security Council’s agenda.
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Geneva: Myanmar’s persecution of political opponents is preventing any real transition to democracy, the United Nations’ special envoy for human rights in the country said Wednesday, a day after the military government criticized the United States for putting it on the U.N. Security Council’s agenda.
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September 26: Burma’s democracy leader, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, was invited to speak at next week’s Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth, but remains ‘incommunicado’ under house arrest in Rangoon.
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