IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | yesterday
5 Nov 2009 The US sends a high-level delegation to Burma in advance of President Barack Obama's ASEAN summit next week, but little progress is expected any time soon, Simon Roughneen comments for ISN Security Watch. By Simon Roughneen for ISN Security Watch A high-level US delegation visited Burma on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, meeting with Prime Minister General Thein Sein and with opposition...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yangon - Myanmar exported 670,000 tons of rice in the fiscal year that ended March 31 despite the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis and expected to export up to 1 million tons this fiscal year, media reports said Sunday. The export volume of ric...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
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...
PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Senior United States officials are said to be “in a listening mode” as they head to Rangoon today to meet with detained Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The US delegation, led by the head of Washington’s East Asia and Pacific Bureau, Kurt Campbell, met yesterday with government ministers in the new capital of Naypyidaw. Campbell however failed to meet with the reclusive junta...
PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The Obama administration has a mountain to climb in order to secure the release of political prisoners in Burma, with a military government aggressively preparing for the country’s first elections in 20 years. In recent weeks the number of political prisoners in Burma has risen following a crackdown on opposition groups. DVB interviewed former political prisoner Myo Yan Naung Thein, who was released...
BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
YANGON, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United States is prepared to take steps to improve relationship with Myanmar but the process must be based on reciprocal and concrete efforts by the Myanmar government, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell told the press Wednesday evening. Campbell made the remarks at the Yangon International Airport at the end of his
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yangon - A high-level US delegation visiting Myanmar on an exploratory diplomatic mission this week failed to meet with representatives of the pro-junta National Unity Party (NUP), state media reported Friday. US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt C...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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Swampland (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Central Intelligence Agency recently agreed to pay $3 million to a former Drug Enforcement Agency official, Richard Horn, whose home was wiretapped in Rangoon, Burma, under apparently illegal conditions. That's one thing--a squabble in a distant country over turf between the CIA and the DEA that led one official to bug another official. But [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
YANGON, Myanmar - The highest-ranking American diplomat to visit Myanmar in 14 years offered improved relations yesterday if its military regime moves toward democracy, putting into action the Obama administration's new policy of engagement with the isolated country.
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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 nation's...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Yangon - This week's visit by senior United States government officials to military-ruled Myanmar is not expected to result in a quick thaw in US-Myanmar ties, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of States Scot Marciel said Thursday. This is early days, ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Yangon - Former Myanmar foreign minister Win Aung died in Insein Prison where he was serving a seven-year sentence for corruption, police and personal friends confirmed on Thursday. Win Aung, 65, died Wednesday morning from a cerebral hemorrhage, clo...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The United States is prepared to take steps to improve relationship with Myanmar but the process must be based on reciprocal and concrete efforts by the Myanmar government, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell told the press Wednesday evening. Campbell made the remarks at the Yangon International Airport at the end of his two-day visit to Myanmar. He described...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Diplomats meet privately with the Nobel Peace Prize winner in Yangon, according to local media reports. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell also talks with top generals from the ruling junta. Senior U.S. officials were allowed to meet today 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 nation's secretive...
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