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Spirituality comes too late to many national leaders
Pyinmana :: Myanmar | 9 months ago
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Reading Chit Hlaing's reminiscence of his last meeting with Ne Win in 1995 is quite a revelation. What is most confounding is that Chit Hlaing realized the key to Ne Win's failure as a ruler of Burma only after the nation had been left in utter ruins.
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World Briefing | Asia : Myanmar: Dispute Over Oath of Office
Yangon :: Myanmar | 1 year ago
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Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 's party said Thursday that it was negotiating with the government to change the oath of office for lawmakers because it contravened the party's official
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Burmese-American First Marine killed in 2011
Hagerstown :: MD :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Htaik, originally from Burma, has become the first US Marine killed in Afghanistan in 2011. The 20-year-old soldier, known to his friends as Sam, died while on deployment in Helmund Province on January 1. Maung Htaik lived with his parents in
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Burma and the vagaries of national reconciliation
Yangon :: Myanmar | over 2 years ago
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The former refers to activities and initiatives of officially recognised governmental and organisational personnel, while the latter incorporates individuals and private groups dedicated to promoting specific causes. I penned the above paragraphs two
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Suu Kyi party renegades register for elections
Yangon :: Myanmar | almost 3 years ago
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Myanmar (AP) — A new party formed by renegade members of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's disbanded party has received a permit to participate in Myanmar's first elections in two decades, state media reported Saturday. <
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi says remarks by minister 'unfair'+
Yangon :: Myanmar | over 3 years ago
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Lawyer Nyan Win said Suu Kyi, when he was allowed to meet her Thursday, told him the remarks by Home Minister Maj...Maung Oo were "absolutely unfair" as they was made while the Supreme Court is reviewing her case. Washington-based Radio Free Asia, in
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Irrawaddy: Clinton, Okada discuss Burma – Lalit K Jha
Khartoum :: Sudan | over 3 years ago
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Washington — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada discussed how to influence the Burmese military junta to move toward democracy and to release Aung San Suu Kyi, the popular pro-democracy leader, from
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Kowtowing Holds Up Political Progress in Burma
Bama :: Nigeria | over 3 years ago
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In Burma, the ruling generals have gone grotesquely backward in time with their penchant for expressions of servility by their underlings. In Burmese Buddhist culture, the act of kowtowing is a sign of garawa, obeisance and humility, to the Buddha
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