Lawmakers worldwide urge Myanmar probe
CNN - 1 hour 49 minutes agoMore than 400 lawmakers from around the world have urged the United Nations to investigate Myanmar's military junta, accusing it of committing crimes against humanity.
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Myanmar junta official meets Aung San Suu Kyi
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 8:22 am ETDetained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken from her home Wednesday into unannounced talks with a junta official, the first in two months, officials said.
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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Meets Government Liaison - Official
Nasdaq - Wed Dec 9, 3:47 am ETYANGON (AFP)--Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the junta's liaison officer at a state guesthouse for 45 minutes Wednesday, an official said.
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Myanmar junta calls detained Suu Kyi "dishonest"
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 9:50 am ETMyanmar's ruling junta on Wednesday dismissed reconciliatory moves by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as insincere and dishonest, dealing a blow to efforts to engage with the reclusive regime.
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Jews Of Burma March On
Baltimore Jewish Times - Thu Dec 10, 4:11 pm ETJewish life in Burma today is quite different from what it was during colonial times, which lasted until World War II. Before the war, it still was the case that “the sun never set” on the British Empire, including in Southeast Asia.
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Junta official meets with Aung San Suu Kyi
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 3:59 am ETOfficials say detained Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was escorted from her home into unannounced talks with a junta official for the first time in two months.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets gov't liaison: official
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 3:54 am ETMyanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the junta's liaison officer at a state guesthouse for 45 minutes Wednesday, an official told AFP.
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Krishna arrives in Myanmar for BIMSTEC meet
INDOlink - Fri Dec 11, 1:02 am ETNay Pyi Taw (Myanmar), Dec 10 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S M Krishna arrived here today to attend the meeting of the seven-nation BIMSTEC that will focus on jointly combating terrorism and promoting free trade.
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HostelBookers Still Travel to Cuba, Myanmar and Syria
Marketwire - Thu Dec 10, 7:56 am ETLONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Dec. 10, 2009) - US foreign policy has banned competitors of HostelBookers from offering accommodation in Cuba, Myanmar (Burma) or Syria. As a British-owned company, HostelBookers are not bound by this travel ban , and continue to offer the best in budget accommodation in these destinations. Whilst traveling to these countries can present an ethical dilemma ...
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Myanmar junta labels detained Suu Kyi "dishonest"
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 2:28 am ETMyanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been insincere and dishonest in her offer to meet the country's military ruler and push for the lifting of Western sanctions, state media said on Wednesday.
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Chinese vice president to visit Myanmar
EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 10, 11:31 pm ETYangon - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is to visit Myanmar this month, perhaps to consult the ruling junta on its election plans for 2010, diplomatic and government sources said Friday. He will visit Myanmar from December 19 to 20. Before Myanma...
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Myanmar state media scolds democracy icon Suu Kyi
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 1:23 am ETMyanmar's state media accused detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi of using the media to make the country's military rulers look bad, warning Wednesday it could hurt her efforts to meet with the junta chief.
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Myanmar state media calls Aung San Suu Kyi 'dishonest '
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 1:16 am ETYangon - Myanmar's state media on Wednesday called opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi dishonest for offering to help the junta get Western democracies to lift economic sanctions. Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, on September 28 sent a letter to ...
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No progress despite engagement with Myanmar: US official
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 9:56 am ETThere are no signs of progress towards democratic change in Myanmar despite Washington's decision to hold direct talks with the country's military rulers, a senior US diplomat said Wednesday.
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War sometimes justified, Obama says in Nobel Peace Prize speech
CNN - Thu Dec 10, 11:17 pm ETPresident Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday by talking about war and the limits of non-violence.
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Bill to ban imported large snakes advances
UPI - 1 hour 56 minutes agoWASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A bill approved Thursday by a U.S. Senate committee would ban the importing of large constrictors like the Burmese pythons that have invaded South Florida.
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Myanmar: Suu Kyi proposes cooperation with junta
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Obama tells Burma to free Suu Kyi
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