| Burma landslide kills dozen |
| Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 |
Yangon - Torrential rains caused a landslide that killed 12 miners in Mogok, military-ruled Myanmar''s "Valley of Rubies" gem zone, a source with relatives living in the area said on Friday...Full Story
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| Fire hits Myanmar embassy in Thailand |
| Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008 |
| -- A fire seriously damaged the top floor of the Myanmar embassy in neighboring Thailand on Monday but there were no injuries, Thai fire department and police officials said....Full Story
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| India ready to help Myanmar in its reconstruction process |
| Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008 |
| India on Sunday conveyed its readiness to assist Myanmar in its reconstruction process in the wake of widespread devastation caused by the natural calamity after helping the cyclone-hit country in relief activities...Full Story
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| Open up if you want more cyclone aid, Myanmar told |
| Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008 |
| Myanmar was promised millions of dollars in cyclone aid on Sunday, but some Western donor countries said the cash was contingent on the junta keeping its word on letting in foreign aid workers...Full Story
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| World Bank won''t help Myanmar |
| Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 |
| Singapore - The World Bank will not give any financial aid or loans to cyclone-hit Myanmar because the military-ruled country has been in arrears with the lender for a decade, a top bank official said on Tuesday....Full Story
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| Myanmar asks several countries to tour cyclone hit delta |
| Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| Myanmar asks several countries to tour cyclone hit delta...Full Story
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| Monks from Myanmar march in Cannes Film Festival |
| Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| PARIS (AP) — Five monks from Myanmar marched through the Cannes Film Festival crowd on Monday to demand that the Southeast Asian nation''s junta allow foreign aid workers into the country to help cyclone victims....Full Story
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| International sea convoy awaits mediation by Asian bloc to deliver Myanmar aid |
| Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| International sea convoy awaits mediation by Asian bloc to deliver Myanmar aid
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| Myanmar says almost 80 foreign medical staff arrive |
| Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
| Nearly 80 Asian medics arrived in Myanmar on Saturday to help with disaster relief efforts after the devastating cyclone two weeks ago, state media said....Full Story
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| British Prime Minister Criticizes Burma Over Failure to Allow in Foreign Aid |
| Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
| British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has strongly condemned Burma''s military government for not allowing international aid to reach its own people. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London has details....Full Story
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| Thailand airport to act as Burma aid staging area |
| Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
| Thailand airport to act as Burma aid staging area...Full Story
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| Burma neighbours in cyclone talks |
| Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
| The Association of South East Asian Nation (Asean) is due to hold urgent talks to discuss ways of helping Burma''s cyclone victims...Full Story
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| Burma''s children at risk of starving to death |
| Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
| THOUSANDS of children in Burma could starve within days unless food is rushed to them, aid agencies have warned.
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| US pushes for helicopters to ferry Myanmar relief |
| Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
| Myanmar''s isolationist ruling junta is now allowing U.S. military cargo planes to regularly fly relief supplies into their largest city to provide aid to cyclone survivors...Full Story
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| Myanmar''s junta leader visits cyclone refugees |
| Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
| Two weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar, the country''s reclusive junta leader Than Shwe visited a refugee camp outside Yangon, according to video broadcast on state television.
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| As Toll Rises to 78,000, Myanmar Still Limits Aid |
| Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| Two weeks after a devastating cyclone smashed ashore in Myanmar, the United States is facing the limits of its clout, at least in dealing with a junta that human rights advocates say is putting its own survival before that of a storm-ravaged population....Full Story
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| UN humanitarian chief to arrive in Myanmar to push for aid efforts |
| Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| A top United Nations relief official will arrive in Myanmar on Sunday to talk directly with the authorities of the country in an effort to accelerate the relief efforts for victims of Cyclone Nargis, which had killed about 78,000, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here on Friday....Full Story
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| Myanmar resists world pressure |
| Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| Myanmar''s military rulers appear to be digging in their heels in the face of mounting international pressure to allow more aid into the country...Full Story
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| Canada involved in plans for controversial Myanmar summit |
| Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| UNITED NATIONS - Canada risks being pulled into a growing controversy over UN hopes for a global conference on Myanmar after privately hosting a luncheon for mainly western ambassadors who included organizing such an event in their talks....Full Story
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| Heavy rains head toward Burma |
| Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| Heavy rains and another potentially powerful storm headed toward Burma''s cyclone-devastated delta today even as the United Nations warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths.
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| UN chief to send envoy to Burma |
| Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| The UN intends to send a top official to Burma to persuade the military rulers to accept foreign assistance, says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...Full Story
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| Burma under pressure to let outside world help after cyclone kills hundreds |
| Date: Sunday, May 04, 2008 |
| Hundreds of Burmese were reported last night to have been killed and many thousands more left homeless after a tropical cyclone tore through the country.
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| Rights group accuses Chevron of complicity in Myanmar abuses |
| Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
| BANGKOK (AFP) — An international human rights group on Tuesday accused US energy giant Chevron of complicity in rights abuses through its investment in a natural gas pipeline in Myanmar.
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| Myanmar premier in Thailand for talks, home-cooked meal |
| Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
| Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein arrived in Thailand Tuesday for a three-day visit that is to include a home-cooked meal by his Thai counterpart....Full Story
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| Detained immigrants set fire to detention center in Malaysia |
| Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| Around 60 illegal immigrants rioted and set fire to a building at a detention center in Malaysia after some of them were rejected for political asylum by the U.N., police said Tuesday.
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| Students blamed for Burma bombs |
| Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| Burma''s ruling junta has blamed an exiled student group for two bomb blasts in Rangoon over the weekend....Full Story
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| UK worried over Burma referendum |
| Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008 |
| United Kingdom''s special envoy on Burma Michael Williams on Friday expressed concern over creditability of the junta-sponsored referendum on constitution due next month....Full Story
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| UN rapporteur warns Burma on vote |
| Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| Burma''s referendum next month will be a "ritual without real content" unless international monitors are allowed in, a top United Nations official has said....Full Story
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| Thailand Set to Deport Myanmar Workers |
| Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| Dozen of migrants from Myanmar who narrowly escaped suffocation while being smuggled through Thailand in a locked, stifling truck were convicted of illegal entry Friday and will be sent home, authorities said Friday....Full Story
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| Myanmar Detains at Least 20 Activists |
| Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| Myanmar''s military junta detained more than 20 activists as they walked through the northwestern city of Sittwe in a peaceful rally against the country''s proposed constitution, an opposition party spokesman said Tuesday.
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| Small taste of freedom for revellers at Myanmar festival |
| Date: Sunday, April 13, 2008 |
| Young women in miniskirts walk down the street, catching the eye of punks with red and blue hair, as Myanmar lets loose for an annual festival when the military allows a tiny breath of freedom....Full Story
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| 54 Myanmar migrants suffocate while being smuggled into Thailand |
| Date: Sunday, April 13, 2008 |
| 54 Myanmar migrant workers suffocated to death as they were being smuggled into Thailand inside a cold storage container, police said on Thursday...Full Story
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| Myanmar migrant survivors fined and deported |
| Date: Saturday, April 12, 2008 |
| Thai police said they planned to hold some survivors of a human trafficking disaster for questioning after witnesses gave police valuable information about the human smuggling network that trafficked them into Thailand from Myanmar....Full Story
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| India-Burma relations gaining momentum of its own |
| Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 |
| The Indo-Burmese relationship is acquiring a positive momentum of its own despite western rights groups'' criticism of Myanmar ''s handling of pro-democracy demonstrations some six months back. India had rolled out red-carpet for Burmese military junta’s top leadership who were on a five day visit to India that began from April 4, 2008....Full Story
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| Myanmar earned 2.7 bln dlrs from 2007 gas exports: report |
| Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 |
| Military-ruled Myanmar earned 2.7 billion dollars from gas exports in 2007, an 80 percent increase from the previous year, a weekly newspaper said Tuesday....Full Story
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| Ludu Daw Amar, Myanmar''s foremost woman writer dies |
| Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 |
| Myanmar''s foremost woman writer and journalist Ludu Daw Amar died yesterday at 92. In a country where draconian censorship laws are in place, she defied the junta and championed the cause of peace, democracy and a free press incurring its wrath...Full Story
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| Myanmar PM calls for approving constitution draft in forthcoming referendum |
| Date: Sunday, April 06, 2008 |
| Myanmar Prime Minister General Thein Sein has called on the country''s people to approve an already drawn-up constitution draft in the forthcoming nationwide referendum set for May, saying that the emergence of the state constitution is the duty of all citizens.
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| Myanmar looks to get a satellite with India''s help |
| Date: Saturday, April 05, 2008 |
| Apart from inking a strategic waterway and road pact opening India''s north-east to the Andaman Sea, the general was keen to see if his hosts could help Myanmar acquire a satellite of its own....Full Story
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| Myanmar''s junta warns of attacks during key festival |
| Date: Saturday, April 05, 2008 |
| Myanmar’s junta warned of increased terrorist acts during next week’s Water Festival and the national referendum, claiming two “terrorists” had been arrested last month, state media reports said yesterday.
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| Sri Lanka Trade Minister to Leave for Myanmar to Bring Rice |
| Date: Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| Apr 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka''s Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Bandula Gunawardena is to leave the country for an official tour in Myanmar today, government sources said...Full Story
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| India, Myanmar expects Kaladan project to increase border trade |
| Date: Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| India and Myanmar has decided to increase the border trade between the two countries which at present is limited to 22 select items...Full Story
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| India, Myanmar sign Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement |
| Date: Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| India and Myanmar have signed a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA), which provides that business profits will be taxable in the source state...Full Story
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| Govt clears Myanmar link project |
| Date: Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| In the first concrete manifestation of India’s Look East policy, the government has cleared the way for the country’s land-locked Northeast to the Bay of Bengal....Full Story
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| India, Burma sign Kaladan agreement |
| Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| India and Burma on Wednesday signed the agreement and two protocols of the Kaladan multi-modal transit transport pro...Full Story
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| North Korea Exports Rocket Launchers to Myanmar, NHK Says |
| Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| North Korea has been exporting multiple-tube rocket launchers to Myanmar, Japan''s public broadcaster NHK said on its Web site, citing unidentified government sources...Full Story
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| India set to sign transport project pact with Myanmar |
| Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008 |
| Economic cooperation, connectivity, security and energy are among the issues that are expected to dominate the talks that Vice Senior General Maung Aye will hold with Indian leaders...Full Story
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| Myanmar Junta Celebrates Military Might |
| Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008 |
| Myanmar''s junta chief insisted Thursday that he is not power-hungry and intends to hand control of the government to the winners of elections in 2010....Full Story
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| ''Myanmar number two to visit India'' |
| Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008 |
| The second-in-command of Myanmar''s ruling junta Maung Aye will soon pay an official visit to neighbouring India, the nation''s state-run newspaper confirmed Sunday.
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| India moves to build access to Myanmar [Sittwe] port |
| Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| In a bid to allow landlocked northeastern states access to a seaport in Myanmar, the Indian cabinet Thursday approved a road and waterway project in that country...Full Story
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| Myanmar junta chief says civilians will lead government after polls |
| Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| NAYPYIDAW (AFP) — Myanmar''s junta chief Than Shwe said Thursday that civilians would take the reins of government after elections in 2010, once a constitution is approved giving broad powers to the military....Full Story
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| Myanmar looking at Indonesian model for democratic transition: UN envoy |
| Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| SINGAPORE (AFP) — Military-ruled Myanmar is looking at the Indonesian model for its planned transition to civilian rule, UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari said in remarks published Wednesday....Full Story
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