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10 hrs ago | Welcome to the Mizzima News

Is engagement playing into the hands of Burmaa s generals?

The administration of US President Barack Obama has followed up its announced policy of engagement with Burmaa TMs military regime by sending a high level delegation into Naypyidaw, the first in 14 years.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Southeast Asia, World News, Thein Sein, Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy, Opinion

18 hrs ago | Telegraph.co.uk

US diplomatic initiative on Burma

US envoys who paid a rare visit to Burma say the new dialogue will be slow and cautious, but that the junta's plans to hold elections next year could disrupt the delicate process.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Prison, Aung San Suu Kyi, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, National League for Democracy

22 hrs ago | Penticton Herald

Obama to meet leaders of Myanmar, other Southeast Asian nations in Singapore

President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, next month in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Thein Sein

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Winnipeg Free Press

Myanmar junta's former foreign minister Win Aung, purged in 2004, dies in prison

Win Aung, foreign minister in Myanmar's military government in 1998-2004, has died in prison while serving a seven-year term for corruption.

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Related Topix: World News, Travel

Southport Visitor

Birkdale veteran Jack Pownall returns to battlefields of Burma

A VETERAN soldier from Birkdale is on his way to an emotional return to the battlefields in Burma where he served with the British Army in World War Two.

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The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine

US-Burma Ready to Start Talks

Kurt Campbell, the US Assistance Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, will arrive in Burma on Tuesday, accompanied by Scot Marciel, the US special envoy to Southeast Asia, for two days of talks-the highest level of US-Burma contact in a decade.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Burmanet

Democratic Voice of Burma: Obama could meet Burmese premier - Joseph Allchin

United States president Barrack Obama could cross paths for the first time with Burmese prime minister Thein Sein at a summit to be held in Singapore later this month.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Canada, Thein Sein, Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong,

TEFL.com Job Postings

Myanmar: Burma teacher

ITALY Northern Italy lucrative language school consisting of four classrooms and a language laboratory for sale.

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Related Topix: Travel, Myanmar Travel, Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Essex County, England, Greater London County, England

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Across the nation

New election bill needed to avert crisis in Iraq BAGHDAD - The official charged with carrying out Iraq's crucial January polls warned Wednesday that they will be delayed if parliament doesn't approve a key electoral bill.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Aung San Suu Kyi, Cats, Pets

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine

Burma: Catching Two Fishes at Once?

The visiting US delegation's talks with the Burmese regime, ethnic minority groups and the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has coincided this week with the news that the China gas pipeline project is finally under way in Arakan State.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Travel, China Travel, Aung San Suu Kyi, Canada, New York

Guardian Unlimited

US diplomats talk to Burmese junta

Meetings with senior military officials in Burma are test of Obama administration's new policy of engagement with dictatorship US diplomats Kurt Campbell and Scot Marciel arrived in Burma today for meetings with senior junta officials.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy

Newswatch 50

Government agrees to pay $3 million in CIA lawsuit

WASHINGTON a " The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for illegal eavesdropping.The proposed settlement followed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in July that CIA officials committed fraud to protect a former covert agent against the eavesdropping ...

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Related Topix: Drug Enforcement Administration, World News

People's Daily

Contributors to winning best exhibitor award in China-ASEAN expo honored in Myanmar

The Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry has honored persons who contributed to the winning of some exhibition-related awards in the recent China-ASEAN Expo held in Nanning, capital of Southwest China' Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sources with the UMFCCI said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, China, Asia, Agriculture, Science

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Air America Radio

Myanmar Junta Arrests Journos And Activists

According to a a Thailand-based human rights group, the Myanmar junta arrested up to 50 people this week including journalists, political activists and university students.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Activism, Journalism, Aung San Suu Kyi

Voice of America

US Diplomats Engaging Burma in Major Policy Change

Two senior United States diplomats are heading to Burma this week to meet with the military government and detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Prison, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thailand, National League for Democracy

Guardian Unlimited

Myanmar's Suu Kyi supports US policy of engagement - AP

A A A' Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is aware of an upcoming visit by two American officials and supports the new U.S. policy of engaging with Myanmar's military rulers, her lawyer said Saturday.

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Related Topix: Aung San Suu Kyi, World News, Journalism, National League for Democracy

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Welcome to the Mizzima News

Three tourists die in Burma in one month

" The Myanmar Tourism Ministry has said three tourists to Burma died of heart disease in the month of October alone.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, Travel, Germany Travel

NationMultimedia.com - Opinion

Lifting Burma sanctions will not silence the screams

THE DAY I was arrested was just like any other. I was having lunch with my family, when officers from the Burmese Military Intelligence came to my home and took me away.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Prison, Opinion

Earth Times

US envoy unlikely to meet with Myanmar junta chief on visit

US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is unlikely to meet with Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Than Shwe on his two-day visit to the military-ruled country this week, government sources said Monday.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Straits Times

Envoys unlikely to meet junta

TWO senior US envoys travelling to military-ruled Myanmar this week will meet detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi but are unlikely to see the reclusive junta chief, an official said Sunday.

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Related Topix: Travel, Southeast Asia, Myanmar Travel, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thein Sein

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