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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.
Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China _ one that would exclude the United States. Some in Washington took it as a snub from the nation that has been America's rock... China - United States - Asia - Japan - East Asia
It would be "very hard" for next year's elections in Myanmar to be legitimate without the involvement of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a senior United States official said on Thursday .
Later this month, Norway's second largest university, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), will consider a proposed boycott of Israel. The university's board...
Mr. Morris was a British epidemiologist whose heart-attack research laid the scientific groundwork for the modern aerobics movement.
Yangon - China has started building a workboat wharf as a first step in its project to construct a 771-kilometre overland gas pipeline from Myanmar's Rakhine state to Yunnan, state media reported Saturday. Chinese National Petroleum Corp on October 3...
Despite objections from China, which claims the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as its own, the Dalai Lama has begun a week-long visit to one of Tibetan Buddhism's holiest sites there.
A top U.S. official held rare talks with Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Wednesday as part of Washington's highest-level visit to the isolated army-ruled country in 14 years.
(WOMENSENEWS)--A few weeks ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's office said it would change strategy on Burma, backing off U.S. economic sanctions of Burma in favor of "engagement" with the military regime, which calls the country Myanmar. read more
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Raquy and the Cavemen, the Brooklyn-based group of Middle Eastern percussionists and musicians, will perform Tuesday at 701 Whaley. The concert, which will include two collaborations with Delirium Tribal, is a fundraiser for the local belly dance company.
Look through the oval eyepiece for a couple of seconds and you’re Clark Gable in "Run Silent, Run Deep." Or maybe Glenn Ford in "Torpedo Run." A few drops of sweat slide down your face. Somebody yells out the range to the target.
YANGON, Myanmar, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Washington is willing to thaw relations with Myanmar if its ruling military junta takes tangible steps toward democracy, a U.S. official said Thursday.
MONG HPEN, Myanmar -- Conquering armies of centuries past avoided this remote, mountainous area along the present-day border with China, a place once described by a British colonial official as "an unpenetrated enclave of savage hills."
ASHEVILLE — UNC Asheville's Amnesty International Student Chapter will hold its sixth annual Human Rights Film Festival this week, with daily screenings at 7 p.m. Monday-Friday in the Highsmith University Union.
The United States, although embarking on a new policy of engagement, will not lift its sanctions on Myanmar unless its ruling generals make concrete progress toward democratic reform, a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday.
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