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Suu Kyi rejects meeting with junta liaison: state media (AFP)

yahoo.com     03-Sep-2008   17 related          

YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet with the junta's liaison officer and declined a visit from her personal physician, state media said Wednesday. The Nobel Peace Prize...                    

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Time For Thai Pm To Step Aside

indybay.org     03-Sep-2008          

by Informed Comment Global Affairs (reposted) Wednesday Sep 3rd, 2008 7:30 AM From a Wednesday, September 3, 2008 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and...                    

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Inner City Press: ASEAN diplomat predicts Gambari’s replacement

burmanet.org     02-Sep-2008          

Having left Burma six days about, after not seeing either Aung San Suu Kyi or General Than Shwe, UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari still had no comment about what if anything his trip had accomplished, despite critical words so far...                    

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Mizzima News: Twenty seven children poisoned by physic nuts - Than Htike Oo

burmanet.org     29-Aug-2008          

Twenty seven Burmese children fell ill from food poisoning after eating physic nuts in 2007, a Rangoon based weekly journal reported. Dr. Kyi Kyi Thin from the Institute of Medicine 1 (IM 1) revealed this in a lecture on...                    

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Irrawaddy: Military step in to stem ‘diamond rush’ – Violet Cho

burmanet.org     28-Aug-2008          

Burmese military authorities have stepped in to prevent hordes of local people rushing to a remote village in central Burma in search of diamonds following the rumored discovery there of a valuable gemstone. An estimated...                    

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Programmpartei oder Wahlverein?

atlantic-community.org     27-Aug-2008          

Editorial, the Washington Post | August 27, 2008 It’s been almost a year since Burmese people were violently crushed as they publicly demanded freedom and the international community has still not achieved anything. ++ As...                    

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Burma: sources of political change , Joakim Kreutz

opendemocracy.net     27-Aug-2008          

The twentieth anniversary of the Burma uprising of 8 August 1988 was marked with a degree of attention around the world, but far less than might have been expected thanks to the coincidence of the opening of the Olympic...                    

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Mizzima News: MAI to hire F-100 aircraft for Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur flights - Nem Davies

burmanet.org     26-Aug-2008          

The Myanmar Airways International, one of the few international airlines in Burma will hire a Fokker-100 aircraft from AirBagan, another airline, for its Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur flights. MAI’s Marketing executive in Rangoon...                    

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guardian.co.uk: The detained Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Photograph: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/EPA guardian.co.uk

Suu Kyi may be on hunger strike

guardian.co.uk     26-Aug-2008   21 related          

Burma opposition leader 'frustrated' at UN's failure to change dictatorship Burma's opposition leader may have begun a hunger strike in protest at the country's failure to embrace change, reports suggested today. Aung...                    

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Will it be A Paper Tiger?

asiantribune.com     25-Aug-2008          

Prof. Kanbawza Win The UN's special envoy Ibrahim Gambari's fourth visit to Burma had come to a dead end and left the country empty-handed. Even Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has refused to see him knowing full well that nothing...                    

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