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Myanmar junta official meets Aung San Suu Kyi

AP - Wed Dec 9, 8:22 am ET

Detained 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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Supreme Court allows Suu Kyi appeal
UPI - Fri Dec 4, 6:13 pm ET
YANGON, Myanmar, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The Myanmar Supreme Court has agreed to consider dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal of her additional 18 months of house arrest, her lawyer said Friday.
GM stabilizing despite leadership shuffle; Chrysler plan stalling out
WZZM 13 Grand Rapids - Sun Dec 6, 3:13 pm ET
Nearly six months after exiting, Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Co. present a clear, but puzzling, contrast.
Jewish Life in Pagoda Land Burma
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Fri Dec 4, 2:58 pm ET
Jewish 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. Jewish merchants, who migrated originally to Burma in the late 1800s, served as a natural conduit between the British colonial rulers and the export–import ...
Myanmar junta transforms Kokang rebels into 'border guards'
EARTHtimes.org - Sat Dec 5, 2:01 am ET
Yangon - Myanmar's junta has officially transformed the rebel army of the Kokang region into a border guard force under its command, state media reported Saturday. A ceremony marking the metamorphosis from former rebel force to the Kokang border guar...
Rockford women help struggling refugees
WZZM 13 Grand Rapids - Sun Dec 6, 12:58 am ET
For decades Lutheran Social Services and Bethany Christian Services have helped refugees from war torn or oppressed countries seek shelter in West Michigan.
Supreme Court to hear appeal arguments of Aung San Suu Kyi
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 5:17 am ET
Yangon - Myanmar's Supreme Court will later this month hear opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's request for an appeal against her 18-month sentence to house detention, Suu Kyi's lawyer said Friday. The court is due to hear Suu Kyi's arguments to app...
Latham speaks at child nutrition conference in Sri Lanka
Cornell News Service - Sun Dec 6, 10:47 am ET
Michael Latham, professor emeritus and graduate professor of nutritional sciences, gave the keynote address Nov. 19 at the "One Asia Forum on Child Feeding in Emergencies," held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Nov. 18-21.
Myanmar Court Allows Suu Kyi to Appeal
CBS News - Fri Dec 4, 6:38 am ET
Opposition Leader, Democracy Icon Given Another Chance to Fight Extended Detention
Recommendations of recent books
San Francisco Chronicle - Sun Dec 6, 3:36 am ET
Recommendations of recent books from the staffs of a rotating list of Bay Area independent bookstores. This week's list (all titles in paperback) is from Eastwind Books of Berkeley, 2066 University Ave., Berkeley. (510) 548-2350. www.asiabookcenter.com....
Junta official meets with Aung San Suu Kyi
FOX 11 Tucson - Wed Dec 9, 4:33 am ET
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Officials 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.
Father Emil Kapaun: As hundreds die, Kapaun rallies the POWs
The Wichita Eagle - Wed Dec 9, 6:59 am ET
By February 1951 the Allied prisoners at Pyoktong, North Korea , were dying so fast on ground frozen so solid that unburied bodies lay in stacks three to four feet high, 30 to 40 yards long. Men hoarded food or stole it from the weak, and left sick men to die in their own defecation.
12-Foot Burmese Python Captured
WFTV 9 Orlando - Mon Dec 7, 2:29 pm ET
TAMPA, Fla. -- A 12-foot long Burmese python was captured over the weekend in Port Tampa by authorities, who guided it into a city-issued garbage can.
U.S. Risks ‘Losing’ Sri Lanka as Ally, Senate Committee Says
Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 9:29 pm ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. risks losing Sri Lanka as an ally unless it changes its relationship after Western criticism of human rights abuses prompted the country to seek closer ties with China, Myanmar and Iran, a Senate committee said.
Thailand set to dominate SEA Games
FOX 11 Tucson - Wed Dec 9, 2:16 am ET
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Thailand did it, Philippines did it. So did Vietnam and Malaysia before them.
SOE Launches Mass Animation Contest on Facebook
IGN PC Games - Tue Dec 8, 11:44 am ET
DC Universe Online (PC) Design an animation for the game, fame to follow shortly.