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The United States said Monday it would no longer allow its row with Myanmar to hold its ties with Southeast Asia hostage, as President Barack Obama geared up for his debut official visit to the region.
The United States expects the leaders of all ASEAN nations to attend a summit in Singapore next week, a US diplomat said Saturday, setting the stage for a possible meeting between Barack Obama and leaders of Myanmar's ruling junta.
The Dalai Lama visited a remote Tibetan monastery in northeast India on Sunday at the start of a trip that has infuriated China, which claims the surrounding Himalayan region as its own.
China's rapid rise to power is challenging Washington's once-dominant sway in the region, something Obama must confront as he departs for his first Asia trip.
A U.S. State Department official met with Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday in a visit that marked the highest-level talks between an American diplomat and Myanmar's detained opposition leader in 14 years.
US envoys who paid a rare visit to Myanmar say the new dialogue will be slow and cautious, but the junta's plans to hold 2010 elections are casting a shadow that could disrupt the delicate process.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, during his upcoming Asian tour.
Germany observes no official holiday on November 9th, the day when, twenty years ago, crowds of stunned, delirious East Germans breached the Berlin Wall. This is because November 9th is also the date on which Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated, in 1918, two days before Germany’s defeat in the First . . .
CLARENCE — The names of 70 men and women from the Mountaintop region who have served in the U.S. military were read aloud Sunday before a crowd that gathered on the lawn of the American Legion Cartwright-Martin Post 813.
Traffickers from Myanmar’s ethnic minorities use Thailand as their hub for the Pacific region.
Even at age 95, Sid Epstein had a knack for numbers and running a business. "He read the paper every day, and The New York Times cover to cover," Epstein's son, Henry, said Sunday. "When the World Series was recently on, he knew everybody's averages, what was happening. "My dad had an unbelievable mind for remembering people, too, and that was his success," Henry Epstein said. "He was a people ...
The Dalai Lama arrived in northeast India on Sunday to visit a remote, high-altitude Tibetan monastery on a trip that has infuriated China, which claims the surrounding Himalayan region as its own.
Former Soviet leader President Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the 2009 EMA Free Your Mind Award in Berlin last night on the eve of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Diplomats meet privately with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in Yangon, according to local media reports. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell also talks with top generals in the government. Senior U.S. officials were allowed to meet Wednesday with Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement, in a further sign of thawing relations between Washington and the Asian ...
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