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Myanmar rebels cashing in illegal drugs stocks: UN

AFP - Thu Nov 26, 2:50 pm ET

Military-ruled Myanmar's rebel ethnic groups are increasingly cashing in their illegal drugs hordes on expectations of a junta crackdown, a UN expert said Thursday.

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Myanmar cyclone survivors still need shelter: U.N.
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 10:38 am ET
Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in makeshift homes 18 months after Cyclone Nargis tore into Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, killing at least 140,000, the United Nations said Wednesday.
Refugees from across the world eat first Thanksgiving dinner at Holy Trinity
The Post-Standard - Thu Nov 26, 3:32 pm ET
Burmese refugees eat their first American Thanksgiving dinner at the Holy Trinity Annex at 501 Park St., sponsored by Father's Heart Ministries.
VIDEO: Council Rock students help Burmese refugees
The Advance - Thu Nov 26, 11:15 am ET
Video by Fox29; Special to BucksLocalNews.com
Swiber Books First Myanmar Offshore Installation Project
Rigzone - Wed Nov 25, 9:27 am ET
Swiber Holdings Ltd. Swiber continues to boost its order book with its latest contract win, which marks its first foray into Myanmar.
Burma and Pussycats
Boise Weekly - Wed Nov 25, 6:22 am ET
Raves and civil wars don't often hang out in the same sentence. by Jeff Lake Raves and civil wars don't often hang out in the same sentence. That is, unless someone happens to be throwing a pussycat-themed rave to benefit war-orphaned children in Burma. Makes sense, right? On Saturday, Nov. 28, the Ilowan's Children Temple is holding From Boise to Burma, a fundraiser with hopes to raise $5,000 ...
School Classes and Clubs Collect for Charity
East Aurora Advertiser - Thu Nov 26, 8:44 am ET
The High School Foreign Relations Club and Key Club coordinated a coat/blanket drive during homecoming for the International Institute of Buffalo. Forty-nine refugees coming from Burma in October received a variety of household goods, cleaning supplies and personal care items. Spirit Club also sponsored a food drive during homecoming for FISH, and Middle School Builders Club and National Junior ...
White House opts out of land mine treaty
The World - Thu Nov 26, 3:35 pm ET
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines.
Visiting AIDS/HIV experts head to Indianapolis
WTHR Indianapolis - Thu Nov 26, 10:10 am ET
The leaders of efforts to fight HIV and AIDS in eight foreign countries are in Indianapolis to learn about education and prevention programs under a State Department exchange program.
MYANMAR: Funding shortfall hits Nargis survivors
IRIN - Thu Nov 26, 9:45 am ET
BANGKOK, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - A lack of funding is still posing a serious problem for recovery efforts to help the survivors of Cylone Nargis, the UN says, despite fresh pledges from donors.
Fire chief: Boy, 4, sparked fire that gutted Boulder Creek house
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Thu Nov 26, 4:48 am ET
BOULDER CREEK -- Lara Bartlett had planned to host Thanksgiving at her Grove Street home Thursday. Those plans and so many others changed Tuesday when a fire sparked by a 4-year-old boy playing with a lighter gutted the duplex and left Bartlett's family -- she, her husband and four children -- and several other residents of the nearly 100-year-old duplex homeless.
EUR FILM REVIEW: A Passion for Giving
Eurweb - Thu Nov 26, 8:53 am ET
*The Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu once said, “He who obtains has little, he who scatters has much.” That sentiment is the recurring theme of A Passion for Giving, an inspirational documentary marking the brilliant directorial debut of Robin Baker Leacock.
GLOBAL: A Nobel Laureate looks back on the first 10 years of the Mine Ban Treaty
IRIN - Thu Nov 26, 7:30 am ET
JOHANNESBURG, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - The ground-breaking Mine Ban Treaty (MBT), which came into force 10 years ago, will hold its second five-year review conference from 29 November to 4 December in the port city of Cartagena in northern Columbia.
'Newcomers' get a taste of America
Lexington Clipper-Herald - Thu Nov 26, 5:37 am ET
Students bond over customs both familiar and foreign. To the class of "newcomer" students at Jefferson Elementary School, Thanksgiving was largely a foreign concept.
Save a Nobel Peace Laureate
Old Gold & Black - Wed Nov 25, 12:27 am ET
Amnesty International has started up a write-a-thon to help save Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi who has been imprisoned in Myanmar for voicing dissenting views. The write-a-thon is looking for 250,000 letters written to the Myanmar embassy in Washington DC on behalf of concerned individuals...
Face time with Jim Lowers
Kane County Chronicle - Wed Nov 25, 11:23 pm ET
Face time with ... Jim Lowers, 69, of Bartlett, as he was drinking coffee at Four Beans Coffeehouse in Batavia, on his way to his daughter and son-in-law, Sara and Matt Szydlowski, in Batavia