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Yesterday China extended the investigation against Australian Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu, who is being held in China, accused of violating commercial secrets and bribery related to iron ore contracts...Tomorrow Mr Rudd will join 15 other regional leaders...
Tags: Thailand, Aung San Suu Kyi, prime minister, Myanmar, human rights, Ms Suu Kyi, China, Australian Rio Tinto, East Asia Summit, ASEAN
The three diplomats were Australia�s charge d� affaires, Simon Starr, together with the Britain ambassador, Andrew Heyn, and the US deputy head of mission. They held talks with Suu Kyi at a state guesthouse near Suu Kyi�s home for one hour. The meeting...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Ms Suu Kyi, Burma, Australian, discuss sanctions
Analysts say the talks in Rangoon are believed to be about recent shifts in the West's approach to trying to bring about change in Burma. The diplomats are reported to be ambassadors from the United States, Australia and Britain. The US has said it will...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Ms Suu Kyi, Myanmar, western diplomat, kyi meeting, Burma, Australian, United States, Barack Obama, Rangoon
AIE�The 30-strong wedding party was getting ready to travel to a ceremony in a nearby village when the earthquake struck, triggering a landslide that would sweep them to their death. They were gathering outside a house when tons of earth began a deadly...
Tags: Indonesian, Ms Suu Kyi, wedding party
Myanmar court rejects Suu Kyi's appeal vs. arrest The Associated Press 9:46 p.m. Myanmar A court in military-ruled Myanmar turned aside opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's latest bid for freedom Friday, rejecting an appeal against her most recent sentence...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Ms Suu Kyi, Myanmar, house arrest, court rejected, rejected suu, myanmar court, ruling myanmar, leader aung, opposition leader
A series of small bombs went off in the suburbs of Yangon Wednesday and Thursday in what appeared to be an act of defiance against the ruling junta, military sources said. Altogether six explosions were reported in Hlaing Tha Yar and Shwe Pauk Kan townships...
Tags: Myanmar Grants Amnesty To, Yangon Divisional Court, Ms Suu Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi, small bombs, Myanmar, Yangon
As Burmese courts imposed a three-year sentence on Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi today, campaigns launched demanding an investigation into the Burmese military regime for crimes against humanity. “Citizens across the globe are asking world leaders...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Democratic Voice of Burma, Ms Suu Kyi, Myanmar, house arrested, military junta, veterans affairs, military spy, Eduardo Ermita, spy chief
An American on trial for secretly entering the house of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been hospitalized after suffering seizures, hospital sources said Tuesday. John Yettaw, 53, was admitted to Yangon's main general hospital Monday and that his...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Ms Suu Kyi, Suu Kyi&rsquo, Myanmar, John Yettaw, house arrested, American, Burma, leader aung, kyi says
YANGON: A Myanmar court on Friday postponed the verdict in the high-profile trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Aug. 11, her lawyer said. Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize winner who has spent 14 of the past 20 years in detention, is charged under...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, Ms Suu Kyi, kyi verdict, myanmar court, nobel peace, house arrest, leader aung, peace prize, opposition leader
Suu Kyi and her housekeepers are being tried on charges that stem from a May 3 incident. That day, an American, John William Yettaw, allegedly swam across a lake to her crumbling, colonial-era home and stayed for two days. The government said Yettaw's...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Ms Suu Kyi, Myanmar, final arguments, Hillary Rodham Clinton, American, closely arguments, final phase, democracy leader, leader aung